Marcela Sánchez Mota

Marcela Sánchez Mota

Marcela Sánchez Mota. (Mexico City). Graduated from Sociology at the UNAM where she was an academic. He studied classical and contemporary dance. She was a founding member of the company Utopia Dance-Theater, where she was an interpreter, choreographer and writer of poems and stage scripts. Stage management studies with Juan José Gurrola. Scenic movement assistant with Ludwig Margules in Mephisto de Gounod. She was awarded a scholarship by the Tanz Projekt in Cologne, Germany. She was the founder and director of the group Espacio Libre de Arte El Fauno, a training school for actors, dancers and stage artists. Body mask specialist (Jacques Lecoq technique). Actress in La Daga by R. Quintanilla and in El mito de Antígona with El Fauno in season at the Julio Castillo Theater. She was creditor of the Virginia Fábregas Prize for a work of psychological mask. He participated in narrative and poetry workshops with Mario González Suárez, Francisco, Hernández, Mauricio Molina, Ricardo Yañez, Antonio Deltoro, José Saer and David Huerta. Diploma in Theory and History of Art with Jorge Juanes. He taught poetry classes at the graduates of the Universidad Iberoamericana. She graduated from the Dynamic School of Writers of Mario Bellatin, with whom she collaborated in two literary projects for the Mexico-Paris house and the Cloister of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. He has collaborated with his literary magazines stories: Blanco Móvil, Farenheit, Unomasuno. He won the Casa Lamm Short Story Award, the Erotic Tale Award Eyes and Tacts, from UNESCO; and received a Honorable Mention from a story at the University of Nuevo Leon and from the 2nd Casa Lamm Short Story Award. She is the author of the poetry collection Luz de Serpiente, winner of the Shaman Prize for Literature. She collaborated in the dance column of the Weekly Seminar for 7 years, 2001 to 2007. She collaborated as a dance essayist in the DF Magazine, 2004-2005. He collaborated with the Magazine of the University of Mexico, with several essays on the body on the scene, religions and philosophy; in the Hoja x Hoja supplement, and in the book México: a commitment to culture. Scenic creator in finalist works of the 2007 INBA UAM Award, 2008 and 2009. Since 2007, she is co-artistic director of Foco alAire productions and co-author of the pieces: Idea of ​​a Passion 2010, LOStheULTRAMAR, 2012 and the AWARD or ConTinenTaL SaloN 2014, which obtained FONCA Promotion and Co-investment. He teaches body mask workshops, as well as, design and realization of masks. She was recently awarded the Juan Rulfo Fine Arts Prize for First Novel 2010, published by La Cifra Editorial in 2014, presented at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. invited by the FIL of Guadalajara and the Book Fair of Manizales, Colombia, the Book Fair of the Zócalo and other National Book Fairs. In 2012, she won the National Dance Award INBA-UAM-UNAM, with the piece LOStheULTRAMAR co-authored with Octavio Zeivy. In 2013 and 2014, with Focus alAire, he directed and premiered the piece LAUDUD (SalóN ConTinenTaL) with the support of FONCA. This last piece, SalóN ConTinenTaL and LOStheULTRAMAR were invited to the 2015 International Cervantino Festival. Participated in the Encuentro de Performing Arts 2015. Invitations to participate in international tours to Los Angeles, California, Manizales, Colombia, Prague, Czechoslovakia, among others. Invitation to belong to the Frontera Arts art platform led by Lynn Fischer.