Melissa Cisneros
(Tijuana, 1980) studied Choreography at the School for New Dance Development (2001-2004) and Fine Arts at the Gerrit
Rietveld Academie (2005-2006) in Amsterdam, NL. Since then, she works as an
independent artist developing and promoting creative projects related to the research,
creation, production and dissemination of contemporary performing arts in
Mexico and abroad. Her work is constituted by a permanent coming and going
between artistic practice and theory, a transit that takes place in the field
of the body. In 2010 she established La Mecedora, a nomadic and playful
initiative that cherishes new ideas within body related art emerging in
creative processes. As a young platform, La
Mecedora counters economical discourses in art that focus on efficiency,
time-pressure and final end products. Instead, it illuminates the rich and
insightful path leading towards the eventual performance, dance or art piece
whilst reflecting on how perceptions are conditioned by socio-economical
factors.
