Melissa Cisneros (Tijuana, 1980)
I work as an independent artist developing and promoting creative projects related to the research, creation, production and dissemination of contemporary performing arts with a specific interest in cross-disciplinary practices and creative processes. My 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 I established La Mecedora (LaM), a nomadic initiative that cherishes new ideas within body related art emerging in creative processes. LaM is a transdisciplinary platform that 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-economic factors.
For twelve consecutive years I facilitate the project PeD (Procesos en Diálogo), a space for Latin-American artists, groups and art collectives to share ideas, strategies and research methods behind the creative process and artistic practice. For me dance and art are a way of making sense of the world around me. It is also a way of surviving this world.
I recently graduated with and MFA in Dance from the University of California, San Diego. While at UCSD, I had the opportunity to develop my dance research and refine my teaching skills for three consecutive years under the mentorship of dance professors Eric Geiger, Liam Clancy, and Yolande Snaith. Prior to this I studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
For twelve consecutive years I facilitate the project PeD (Procesos en Diálogo), a space for Latin-American artists, groups and art collectives to share ideas, strategies and research methods behind the creative process and artistic practice. For me dance and art are a way of making sense of the world around me. It is also a way of surviving this world.
I recently graduated with and MFA in Dance from the University of California, San Diego. While at UCSD, I had the opportunity to develop my dance research and refine my teaching skills for three consecutive years under the mentorship of dance professors Eric Geiger, Liam Clancy, and Yolande Snaith. Prior to this I studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.