AURA ARREOLA

 

Aura is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and performer. Her practice straddles expanded choreography, Butoh dance, and sound performance, privileging unconventional (site-specific) spaces to explore alternative forms of relationship between bodies, affections, and environments. From 2008 to 2015, she studied and collaborated with master teacher Eugenia Vargas, which marked the beginning of an in-depth investigation into Butoh in Mexico and Japan.

Her choreographic work is characterized by a sensitivity to intimacy, vulnerability, and eros as political and aesthetic potencies, developing transdisciplinary methodologies that intertwine relational ontologies, speculative feminism, and environmental humanities. She has been choreographed by international masters such as Tadashi Endo, Natsu Nakajima, Taketeru Kudo, and Yukio Suzuki, and has collaborated with over 40 artists in Japan, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

She is co-founder of Sociedad de Carne y Hueso (2016), a platform for situated artistic experimentation; Espacio Interior (2019), an ecosomatic encounter in nature; Campo Escénico SC (2012), a platform specializing in the production, management, and administration of performing arts; and the Cuerpos en Revuelta International Butoh Festival (2016).

She has collaborated as a choreographer and performer on projects with artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans, Robert Janitz, Mauro Giaconi, Aurora Noreña, and Juan José Rivas. Her Master's project in Visual Arts (FAD-UNAM), Intimidades Radicales, received Honorable Mention and has been presented at Performance Studies International #29 (London), Studio 303 (Montreal), and the Gloria Contreras Chair of Dance UNAM (CDMX), as well as in international seminars such as Political Intimacies (Kingston University and Performistambul), curated by Dr. Daniela Perazzo.

Aura develops an ongoing pedagogical practice through workshops and choreographic laboratories, which work as spaces for collective research, sharing, and creation, where sensitive forms of thought are activated through the body.