Stephanie García

Originally from Mexico City. García holds a Contemporary Dance BA (INBA), studies in

Cultural Management (UDG), and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management and

Cultural Policies (CENART, OEI, and UAM, 2007). García is a multi-awarded Mexican

multidisciplinary artist. Dance, film, choreography, and, more recently, performance are the

mediums García intervenes in the reality of the audiences that witness her work. She is co-

founder and co-director of PROArtes México and Punto de Inflexión. Stephanie has danced

with several of the most important choreographers and venues in Mexico, performed in 11

countries of America, Europe, and Africa, and choreographed more than 30 original

multidisciplinary artworks presented in Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Peru, Cyprus, Irland, and the

USA.

 

A beneficiary of programs like Banff Center (CAN/2021), NALAC (USA/2021), Outstanding

Profile Santander Legacy (MEX/2020), IBERESCENA (Iberoamerican countries/2019),

Prince Claus Fund (NL/2019), and seven times awarded by Mexico's National Culture and

Arts Fund grants from 2006-2019. The press considered Stephanie one of the indispensable

performers in the Mexican dance landscape in 2010. Since 2008, García has been an arts

advocate facilitating local and international cultural art exchanges between Mexican artists

and countries like Uruguay, Cuba, Panama, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Austria, Peru,

Colombia, Tunisia, Argentina, and the USA.

 

Since 2011 she has been a member of the U40 Mexico Network, an initiative promoted by

the German Commission for UNESCO, and since 2021 of the Latinx Hispanic Dancers

United Network. She was awarded by the Center of Latin American Studies and Tinker

Research Foundation in 2021 to create a multidisciplinary work based on reflections on

gender violence entitled 'Vanished Vibrations.' Her research addresses issues such as violence

and subordinate and politicized bodies and identities through dance, screendance, and

performance with an approach to critical theories of race, coloniality, and gender. García is

currently a recipient of the Graduate Research Fellowship 2022-2023, an MFA candidate, and

a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Modern Dance program at the University of Utah.