Vasna Aguilar she/her– ch/mex explores the fluid boundaries between movement, text, and sound. Her practice embraces experimentation and interdisciplinary exploration, constantly questioning traditional forms and discovering new possibilities. Rooted in connection with those she collaborates with, her work as a performer and choreographer adapts to each situation, context and narrative, while moving across genres, countries, and languages. Every process is different.
She studied classical dance at the Hamburg Ballet School John Neumeier and contemporary dance at Codarts University of the Arts. Since then, she has worked internationally in both institutional theaters and the independent scene, collaborating with artists such as Ersan Mondtag, Gustavo Gomes, Henri Hüster, Shang Chi Sun, Alina Rentsch, Olivier Py, and Felix Hafner.
Part of her practice includes choreographing for theater, where her choreographic language has developed through collaborations with Schauspiel Wuppertal, Bühnen Bern, Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen, Volkstheater München, Landestheater Innsbruck, Lichthof Theater Hamburg. Working at the intersection of dance and language, she choreographs speaking bodies and embodied language. Often starting from texts with a strong sense of physicality, she uses them as choreographic sources that generate movement, corporeality, and structural ideas. She explores questions such as: Where and when do we feel words in the body? When does the impulse to move arise, and how does language shape it? How can choreography emerge that does not illustrate text, but transforms it into its own distinct physical form?