Co-directed by Mayra Morales and Ray Eliot Schwartz, professors of dance at Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Performática is a festival, a conference, a workshop, a community builder, an exchange project, and a creative vision.

Inspired by years of exposure to international workshops, performance festivals, academic conferences, and community art projects, Performática aims to synthesize the best of these events into a unique forum. The event brings together an international cadre of practicing dancers, choreographers, theorists, and teachers of contemporary dance and related movement arts.

Over the course of the forum, workshops, roundtable discussions, and performances will be convened with the goal of facilitating international and intercultural exchange of practices, knowledge, theory and culture as related to the contemporary discourse of body movement, expression, and philosophy.

The first Performática took place 15-23rd of March, 2007 in Puebla, Mexico. Spanning nine days, with over 12 different shared performance events - as well as workshops, papers, dance films, events for children, and discussions - the event reached thousands of community members.

Over 300 Mexican students had access, free of charge, to world-class teaching over the course of the event. As well, thousands of audience members had free access to over 100 international artists represented on the stages and sites of Cholula and Puebla.

We invite you to visit Performatica's 2006 web site for further references. Please click here.

We invite participants - recently emerging, or those more established - to come to Mexico in the spirit of this international exchange of art and energy. Come with dance-works, workshop ideas, papers or articles for presentation and discussion. It is our intention to facilitate an environment of rich dialogue, experiential discourse, and performative interplay. An open heart, a curious intellect, and a commitment to your own passions and ideals are invited and appreciated. Along with Europe and other parts of North America, we would like to especially encourage participants from Mexico, Latin America, Africa and the Far East.

All events will be conducted in Spanish and/or English.

You may come for all or part of the event.