About Me

I remember when I was around 10 years old in a racquetball tournament, I was playing to get to the semifinals and I was very excited! It was an international tournament and there were players from different south American countries. The match was very tight and in the last set there was a very long ball that I won jumping and diving into the floor, I remember people clapping and my feeling was very clear: it’s amazing how my body reacted, I like to do mor of this! So that became a bit my style of playing, not a traditional way, it was a bit spiced by hitting the ball behind my back, under my legs, jumping around… more or less a COLORFUL WAY.

I did a lot of sports when I was a kid and then a teenager and then, I still do a lot of things as I try to be a grown up (or as a grown up ;). I played racquetball, squash, basketball, football, I did some kung fu, acrobatics… etc. And I think that brought a big curiosity into my life: the body, this amazing machine that we have or we are, and the endless possibilities that we can explore in terms of MOVEMENT.

After school, I had to go to the army for one year, and because of these strange tricks that life plays on you, I ended up skydiving, doing a crazy course called “lancero” (an extreme physical course for special forces), and most of the year I was in a squat that had to do shows jumping from bridges, helicopters, descending from buildings with ropes and even singing military songs!!!

Again, I was EXPLORING THE BODY IN MOTION in ways that I could never imagine before!! And that was amazing!!

After the army, I went to the university and started studying design, but at the same time I joined the theater group, my girlfriend at that time said I should join because it was very physical, so I did, without knowing that it would CHANGE MY LIFE.

I met Beto, in the theater group and together we came one day to the director with a crazy idea: a fully improvised show!!! We didn’t know it existed already so for us, we discovered IMPRO! After a while of being doing some shows in the university, the director gave us a set of photocopies, it was Keith Johnstone’s book “Impro”. Since then, Impro became one of my passions.

Some months after I joined gymnastics class, contemporary dance and a capoeira training, then circus came to my life… This combination was a bomb! The exploring the body in many different ways and discovering a full range of techniques that helped me dive in deeper research on EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT.

During these years I had the opportunity to study and work with amazing and inspiring persons like Phillippe Gaulier, I studied clown and bouffon, Keith Jhonstone, Patti Styles, Shawn Kinley, Steve Jarand, Randy Dixon and the Orcas Project, and much more.

Then different projects came to live, some of them still are running like LA GATA CIRKO, my circus company that turn 21 years old on 2023.

Since 2001 I’ve been touring AROUND THE WORLD sharing, researching and exchanging experiences and information in impro festivals, events and visiting companies.

I was cocreator and codirector of four impro projects well known around the world:
La gata impro, Picnic, Speechless and the Monkey Fest (international impro festival in Bogota – Colombia).

Today I’m interested in exploring the body and its different possibilities, inside and outside of the performing arts environment, for fun, for health or for artistic reasons. I’m interested as well of creating projects, collaborations, exchanging experiences around the world.

In pandemic times I had the opportunity of studying the online program with Ido Portal and Marcello Palazzo with whom I took a very inspiring movement workshop in Hamburg 2024 that inspired the movement research in vast ways.

I believe that we can make a positive impact in the world if we work together, connected and embracing playfulness.