Dance Hall

Querétaro Arts Center

Arteaga #89, Downtown Querétaro

 

August 8, 2025 | 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

August 9 and 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

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REGISTRATION $1,200.

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INFORMATION: 442 327 9992 or talleresalmargen@gmail.com

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Dancers, circus artists, actors, martial artists, or anyone interested in curious and committed exploration, willing to play with the body in movement.​

 

About the Lab

This practice proposes a creative experience that contemplates a process of constant dialogue between reflective theory and bodily action. The main objective is the practice of improvisation in constant reflection from the body in movement, developing the ability to listen to ourselves, others, and the sound or silence that accompanies it.

During the sessions, different contradictions are worked on that will generate poetic layers related to space, sound, emptiness, tension, balance, coordination, speed, multidirectionality, touch, and contact, among other things. The idea is for each participant to inhabit their process, guided by invitations that allow them to construct poetic body writing that does not stem from imitating the forms of others, but from discovering their own language.

Each day, various topics and practices will be introduced through games, either individually, in pairs, or in groups.

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​KAREN DE LUNA

Mexican artist, dancer, creator, and environmental educator. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Education from the University of Guadalajara, a Bachelor's degree in Integral Design from the ITESO University of Guadalajara, and a dance graduate from the Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán (EPDM) in Mexico.
She was part of Delfos danza contemporánea for seven years, performing on four continents. She subsequently participated in the companies ASYC / El teatro de movimiento and Physical Momentum, collaborating as a performer-creator on specific projects.

She founded the interdisciplinary collective Proyecto al Margen in 2010, performing in the United States, Hong Kong, Spain, and Denmark, as well as at major festivals in Mexico. She was one of the companies selected by the National Dance Coordination to be promoted at the Tanzmesee with the work Somos con Quien Estamos (We Are with Who We Are).

Among her most notable works are: Inert Times, Exercises to Close Issues, What We May Be (created with the MákinadT company), Verdesaparecer, and Del negro al silencio, created through an interdisciplinary dialogue with audiovisual artists, musicians, lighting designers, and costume designers. For several years, she has focused on linking dance, improvisation, and environmental education through her pedagogical proposals: "Cuerpo Presente," "CorpoRealidades," and "Tiempo para el Cuerpo," designing various workshops and practices, as well as writing articles that share diverse processes and lessons learned through reflection and practice in dance.

She has taught workshops at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Civic Centre, Barceloneta (Spain), the University of South Florida (USF), Kunst-Stoff Arts (San Francisco), the Santander Performing Arts Ensemble, the University of the Americas in Puebla, the CAMP-IN Festival (San Luis Potosí), the Invernadero (Oaxaca), the National Dance Encounter, the Atlas México Festival (Guanajuato), the REVÉS Encounter (Costa Rica), the Primate Escénico Festival (Xalapa), the Menorca en Dansa Festival (Spain), the Árvore Casa das Artes (Brazil), and independent venues in Ireland, among others.

In 2014, she was invited to teach the audition class for the second cast of the Contemporary Dance Production Center (CEPRODAC), a national project, in Mexico City.

She was selected as one of 20 dancers to participate in the Opera Prima@ elcolectivo project, a reality show held in Mexico that allowed her to perform works by renowned choreographers from Mexico and abroad, finishing as one of the eight finalists.

She has received the PECDA Jalisco scholarship and the Scenic Creators Program from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) twice, as well as the Proyecta Producciones scholarship for several of her creations. She is currently a recipient of the Scenic Creators with a Career scholarship awarded by the National Program for the Support of Creation and Cultural Projects in 2023, which lasts three years.

She lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is a member of the Center for Environmental Culture and Educational Research (CCAIE), artistic director of the Bosque La Primavera Festival, which focuses on the conservation of threatened natural spaces. She has been held eight times, and teaches Expanded Arts in the Communication and Audiovisual Arts program at ITESO University, with whom she has collaborated since 2016.

For over 12 years, she has taught the movement workshop-laboratory "Cuerpo Presente" (Present Body), alongside musician Diego Martínez Lanz. The workshop is held at //espacio en el medio-Sala Oteart, where she collaborates with dancer Guyphytsy Aldalai.