Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez

Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez is a dancer, performer and maker from Medellín, Colombia. She studied Architecture in Colombia between 2010 and 2014. She completed her B.A. in Modern Dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2019 and her M.A. in Dance at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels in 2021.

Her personal research is driven by the notions of built and unbuilt constructions — a way to intertwine her love for architecture, space, materiality, and collective and personal fictions. Sentimentality, imagery, nostalgia, and text production are fundamental to her work. In 2021, she created the solo WORK. WOOD. GOOD., which brought craftspersonship and her constructions to the stage as part of her M.A. at P.A.R.T.S. In 2023, she directed the creation Title under-construction for the BA third-year Drama students at KASK Conservatory in Ghent.

She has worked with Geert Belpaeme, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis, Carly Rae Heathcote, Ode de Kort, Keren Kraizer, Lydia McGlinchey, Leila Hekmat, and Lena Grossmann. She has also collaborated with Spazio Cura – designer and architect Thorben Gröbel, among others.

Since 2016, she has worked with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso. Over the years, they have created a series of duets that draw creatively from their intimacy, friendship, and their love for each other. They investigate, with urgency, their current relationship to their Latin-Americanness and approach dance and performance with humorous capriciousness.

Estefanía lives in Brussels and works between Belgium and Germany.