Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez

Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez is a dancer, performer, and maker from Medellín, Colombia. She studied architecture in Colombia from 2010 to 2014. In 2019, she received a Bachelor in Dance from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and in 2021 a Master's degree in Dance from P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. In the past, her personal research has been driven by the notions of ‘built’ and ‘unbuilt’ constructions: an interweaving of craftspersonship, sentimentality and fiction. Imagery, nostalgia, humour and a dance departing from emotionality and technique are central to her artistic practice.

She has collaborated with Kinga Jaczewska, Geert Belpaeme, Bosse Provoost and Ezra Veldhuis, Carly Rae Heathcote, Ode de Kort, Keren Kraizer, Lydia McGlinchey, Leila Hekmat, Lena Grossmann and Spazio Cura by Thorben Gröbel, among others.

Since 2016 she collaborates with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso.

Luisa Fernanda Alfonso and Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez are two Colombian artists, from Bogotá and Medellín respectively. Since 2016 they have been creating together. They approach dance and performance with a humorous capriciousness, with an urgency to investigate their latin-americanness and their love for one another. Their intimacy and close friendship are both their drive for creation and their tools for subversion. After going through extremely meticulous kinetographic studies at Folkwang University together for 4 years, their creations are a clear clashing of worlds: western composition structures depicting their nostalgia for home and feeling of absence. Quinceañeras is their first evening-length work to premiere late spring 2026.