Amanda Piña

Amanda Piña (Chile-Mexico-Austria) is a choreographer and dancer. Her work focuses on the decolonization of art and the political and social potential of movement, introducing non-Western knowledge into contemporary performance. She studied physical theatre in Santiago, theatre anthropology in Barcelona, and classical, modern and contemporary dance in Mexico, Spain, Austria and France with mentors like Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy. She received the DanceWEB Scholarship (2006) and the Young Choreographers Grant from Tanzquartier Wien (2007). Since 2013, she is a certified Feldenkrais Method teacher. She has performed works by DD Dorvillier, Claudia Heu, Daniel Aschwanden, among others. A graduate of the Curating in the Scenic Arts program at the University of Salzburg, she is currently leading the Endangered Human Movements project, a long-term research platform on bodily practices threatened by coloniality, extractivism and globalization.