About
Dancing is allowing oneself to be,
resonate with all:
the voice, the look, the contact, the breath.
Valesa Rivera, dancer, choreographer, body therapist
Valesa Rivera with more than 20 years of giving classes and shows, with extensive experience in various disciplines of dance, theater, music, meditation, yoga and psycho-corporal therapies. She has done an intense job as a scenic creator and in the training of dancers, mainly in tango.
He plays the bandoneon, an instrument considered the soul of tango.
He has delved into therapeutic tools, creating techniques for the development of body expression and awareness with his Deep Body System.
Valesa has participated in international festivals, such as the Ethnic Dance World Festival in San Francisco, California, and has been part of prestigious dance companies. He has taught courses in Cuba, Argentina, Germany, Denmark, France, England, USA and Mexico.
She is a choreographer for plays, movies and shows. He recently participated in the choreographic direction, with acclaimed filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and renowned Mexican actors Daniel Giménez Cacho and Silvia Pasquel.
my teaching philosophy
I seek a broad vision of both art and life. Provide tools that stimulate confidence, sensitivity, self-observation, presence and that can integrate it into their daily lives.
Each student has a different way of being and learning. I like to offer different learning paths depending on each person and design strategies together, according to their concerns and circumstances. I seek to create a space of trust where my students can enjoy their practice, integrating the principles and bases that lead them to express themselves freely.
Currently
For the past 8 years, he has promoted a comprehensive training school in Mexico in tango, contact improvisation, body awareness, yoga and stage expression, with his Deep Body system.
It is also dedicated to therapeutic body work. He has participated giving lectures about his Deep Body methodology as therapy at the International Congress Reflections on Contemporary Forensic Psychology 2020 and at the Faculty of Ecology at UNAM.
He has performed as a bandoneonist in the premiere of the video clip of the singer Abi Gómez and in the Tango Flamenco show with the dancers Salvador Palomino and Ruth Shabes and with the musicians Cesar Romero and Gabriel Paredes, flamenco guitarists with whom he began a fusion of bandoneon and gypsy rhythms.
Today Valesa is about to finish the Deep Body book in collaboration with Alejandro Araujo, professor of Humanities at UAM With a proposal that explores the sensitive and affective worlds through movement and art.
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Training in several countries
Valesa lived in Havana, Cuba where she began her studies in contemporary dance, music and theater. There she discovered Afro-Cuban rhythms and tango, finding a root that she continues to cultivate and explore to this day.
Later she moved to the United States where she was able to venture as a choreographer in several plays and there she began to teach tango, yoga and Latin rhythms. He continued his studies in music and dance schools in the city of Austin Texas.
He lived in San Francisco, California where he formalized his professional training in tango, with the Argentine dancer Marcelo SolÃs, who was an important part of the rescue of tango in Buenos Aires. Marcelo was one of the teachers, with whom Valesa danced and worked for almost five years, touring various cities in the United States and Europe teaching classes, participating in festivals and organizing intensive courses in Buenos Aires.
He continued his tango studies in the city of Buenos Aires where he took classes with renowned masters of the old guard such as Orlando Paiva, Juan Bruno, Mingo and Esther Pugliese, Gavito and Copes. And in new tango with Chicho Frumboli, El pulpo, Pablo Villarraza and Danna Frigoli.
Later Valesa started a tango community at the University of Berkeley. She majored in Yoga and Contact Improvisation in San Francisco and Berkeley. Also in Oriental dances and Tribal Fusion with renowned dancer Rachel Brice.
Some time later Valesa returned to Havana to teach tango classes at the Casa de la Comedia, the Museo de la Revolución and the Caserón del Tango. He directed choreographies for shows and trained professional dancers who today perform in Buenos Aires and other countries.
Valesa delved into music studying with the composer Ricardo MartÃn and Jaime de la Parra. He studied bandoneon with Coco Potenza, later with Cesar OlguÃn and Escápola, great tango bandoneonists with whom he also appeared dancing in shows. For several years, she took voice, body and metaphor classes with teacher Hebe Rossell, whom she recognizes as her most important teacher in the art and work of expressing emotions through the body.
Trajectory in Mexico
She was a guest teacher at the Casa del Teatro in Mexico City, collaborating with teachers Hebe Rossel, MartÃn Acosta and Tomás Rojas.
Producer of the international festival Ciudad Tango Fest, Mexico in which more than 40 artists participated.
Participated in the creation of the method "Development of psychomotricity through corporal expression for children"
Which was certified by the Autonomous University of Mexico to be taught in the CENDIS.
He has participated in the National Tango Congress and in the BajÃo Tango International Festival as a jury in the tango championship and presenting his scenic work. Valesa has contributed to creating tango communities and given courses in the cities of Puebla, San Miguel de Allende, Morelia and León Guanajuato. He founded the Tango school in the city of Cancún and San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
He danced within the contemporary dance company Humani Corp, with internationally prestigious shows. He has been part of the main tango shows in Mexico and has presented his choreographic work and productions in the main theaters of the republic: Teatro de la Ciudad and Lunario de la Ciudad de México, in the Angel La Peralta in San Miguel de Allende, Macedonia Alcalá Theater, Manuel Doblado Theater in León, Juárez Theater in Guanajuato, University of Mexico South Campus Theater, Cancun Main Theater, Torreón, Sinaloa, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Durango, Sonora , Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosà and Morelia. It has also participated in International Fairs and Festivals such as: Revueltas Festival 2015, Cervantino Baroque Festival 2005, Coahuila International Arts Festival 2012, International Book Fair 2012, Coexistence and Universal Brotherhood VIII, Friendly Cultures Fair Mexico City 2010, XX International Music Festival of Morelia Miguel Bernal Jiménez.
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