Catalina Insignares

Catalina Insignares is a Colombian choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. She is interested in how to use the sensorial and fictional means of the body and of touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. Her practice includes, notably, a duet danced with a participant over a few weeks (us as a useless duet—2015), a night reading addressed to sleeping bodies (useless land—2017), and sensory practices that explore the connections we have with the dead (landscapes of the dead—2019; to know the vultures so well—2022).

She always works in collaboration and long-term associations for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching, and performance. Since 2015, she has collaborated with Carolina Mendonça, maintaining a close relationship in different ways of working together. Since 2017, she has been working with Myriam Lefkowitz as a performer, as well as in a collaboration that seeks to infiltrate sensory practices into the social and political realities of exiled people (La facultad—2017).

From 2019 to 2022, Catalina developed her research as part of DAS THIRD in Amsterdam. From 2019 to 2024, she was a co-curator at Gessnerallee in Zurich, where she developed the festival El Caldo and the curatorial programme Discrete. Catalina has been periodically invited to intervene at DAS Choreography, as a teacher or mentor, and more recently at P.A.R.T.S for the Master's programme. She also teaches in the Master's Programme in Live Art Forms at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts.