Espartaco Martínez is an actor and creator trained at La Casa del Teatro, with an international career spanning Japan, Europe, the Americas, and Korea. He explores dance, clown, and butoh as languages of resistance, with works including La Bestia, Inhumano, and The Heart Sutra. He has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci and Daisuke Yoshimoto, taught in Tokyo, and served as cultural advisor for Conafe. Author of Bitácora de Oriente and Dejarse ir, he also created the film Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras.

Residency 2025

Alexis Convento (she/they) is a queer, 2nd-generation Filipino-American artist based in Berlin, Germany. Working as Ulam, they create experiences that combine personal storytelling, edible installations, and performative scores, linking ancestral narratives with labor and care. Their projects include Kamayan feasts inspired by the Manila-Acapulco Trade Route, a cocktail experienced as tears, and one-on-one spoon-feeding interactions. Alexis is also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation.

Residency 2025

Matt Thomas is an architect, artist, and urban designer exploring the systems and patterns that structure daily life. He combines design, art, curation, and community engagement to examine the built environment, with a focus on food and water systems. Thomas is the Executive Director of The Paseo Project and founder of Studio Taos, an interdisciplinary research and design practice based in Taos, New Mexico. He earned a B.Arch from Kansas State University (2001) and an MSAUD from Columbia University (2008). He has taught at the American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and Chongqing University.

Residency 2025

Tania Mata began her dance training in Oaxaca 17 years ago, later expanding into Graham technique, contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial movement in DOCA - El Nido in Guadalajara. She has performed at Teatro Alcalá, Teatro Degollado, and Foro Larva, and since 2022 has taught contemporary dance, acroyoga, and movement labs at Necia.

Residency 2025

Mario Cruz was born in San Jacinto Chilateca, Oaxaca. He studied Sociology at UAM Xochimilco and earned a Master’s in Social Anthropology from CIESAS. His photography has appeared in La Jornada del Campo, Ojarasca, and Oaxaca Media. Winner of the Best Portfolio Award at FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024, his work is part of the Contemporary Image Catalog of the Centro de la Imagen. He founded the Club de Experimentación Fotográfica and has exhibited in Mexico and Chile.

Residency 2025

María Conchita Díaz, a Zapotec filmmaker from Oaxaca, studied Film Directing at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Her 2024 thesis La Soledad won the BAFTA Student Award and the Yugo Student Choice Award, making her the first Mexican and Latin American recipient. She co-founded IXMATI Films, producing acclaimed features such as Gueixhuba and 8 Venado Garra de Jaguar, and is currently developing Ascio o Día sin Sombra.

Residency 2025

Oscar Javier Martínez, also known as “Oxama,” is a music journalist, musician, and producer from Oaxaca. Active in radio since 1994 and in music since 2001 as a percussionist, arranger, and producer, he co-founded Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), creating original scores for silent films. He has collaborated with Ana Díaz, Lila Downs, and Susana Harp, and currently leads Mori Trío and hosts El Sexto Continente, a jazz program with over 2,300 broadcasts.

Residency 2025

Guyphytsy Aldalai is a multidisciplinary artist from Guadalajara whose practice integrates dance, philosophy, and literature to explore the body as a political and poetic territory.

Casa Abierta 2025

Aura Arreola is a performer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist specializing in Butoh dance, sound performance, and intermedia collaborations.

Casa Abierta 2025

Julia Barrios de la Mora is a choreographer and performer, whose practice investigates relational ecologies between human and non-human bodies -

Casa Abierta 2025

Raymundo Rafael Pavón Lozano is a jaranero (traditional musician), composer, and singer from Xalapa, founder of La Calandria and collaborator of Natalia Lafourcade.

Casa Abierta 2025

Mirna Gómez Silva is a stage artist from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, with over 18 years of experience in contemporary dance and Afro-diasporic styles such as son jarocho and Guinean ballet.

Casa Abierta 2025

Natalhi Vázquez is an interdisciplinary stage creator trained in dance and theater in Oaxaca since 2005, with a focus on performative pieces and improvisation.

Casa Abierta 2025

Frida María Cruz Trujillo is a contemporary dance artist from Oaxaca who works as an independent artist and collaborates with La Locomotora Foro Escénico.

Casa Abierta 2025

Luis Vallejo is a stage artist from Orizaba with a prominent career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher both in Mexico and abroad.

Casa Abierta 2025

Xiomara Valdez is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Chiapas, a graduate of the Universidad Veracruzana, whose career is centered on contemporary dance as a form of spiritual expression.

Casa Abierta 2025

Juan Pablo Miranda is an editor, cultural manager, and radio producer with a degree in Hispanic Literature from UNAM.

Casa Abierta 2025

Getse Zato is a stage artist, photographer, and psychotherapist with international experience in film, performance, video art, and theater.

Casa Abierta 2025

Rafael Chitiva is a Colombian artist specializing in contemporary dance, physical theater, and stage lighting, with over ten years of professional and pedagogical experience in Latin America.

Casa Abierta 2025

Eduardo Orozco Gómez is an actor, director, and playwright trained at CUT-UNAM with several diplomas in literary and choreographic creation.

Casa Abierta 2025

Hugo Morales Zendejas is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a 20-year career in popular, experimental, and improvised music.

Casa Abierta 2025