Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica
Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica is a Venezuelan dancer and works out of Cologne. She holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the ZZT – Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne and an MA in Languages/Translation from the Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela.
Immersed in the exploration of peculiar forms of communication, her work builds new ways of interaction between people, time and space. Since 2007 she has worked with artists such as Willi Dörner, Constanza Ruiz, MD Kollektiv, Marina Abramović, Özlem Alkis, Alexandra Waierstall, Sophia Seiss, Michéle Murray, Coreoarte. 2020/21 member of Compagnie Thor by Thierry Smits, Brussels.
She is one of NRW’s most promising choreographers with her critical and humorous view of post-colonialism and other vital topics and her own radical body language. Her own works include What, where and when are we? and ON:Joy. She was a resident at Pact Zollverein and at TanzFaktur Köln and received numerous grants, including 2024 Tanzrecherche NRW, which enabled her to conduct research in Cairo for her project Deep into the Unheard Cosmologies.
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