Gerardo Garrido

I think I am very clear about the job I want for my future, which is to be a professional dancer and work in a dance company. I imagine it fantastic and full of challenges, I have always been a person who fights for his dreams, and you can dance in a company more than being my job, it would be a dream for me. Obviously to work as a dancer you need to work indoors (or most of the time). I would love to be able to travel around the world dancing, getting to know cultures and learning from many dancers around the world.   The best thing about being a dancer is that I don't need to be in an office, because I'm very restless and it's hard for me to sit for so long haha.  To be a dancer I am studying a Bachelor of Arts with a major in dance, which helps me to be able to get that dream job. Despite not finishing my degree at the university, I have already had the opportunity to work in a company as a dancer, something that encouraged me even more to want to dedicate myself to danc...

 I think the person I would like to meet is Maria Khoreva, a 21 year old Russian dancer. My desire to meet her comes because she is the youngest dancer to become a soloist at the Mariinsky Ballet.  She looks like a very disciplined person and passionate about what she likes, that's something I highlight and try to imitate from her. Khoreva was born in St. Petersburg, and at the age of 10 she entered the famous Russian ballet school Vaganova.  She managed to enter the professional Mariinsky Ballet Company at the age of 18 and signed as an ambassador of the famous Nike brand. I highlight her personality, perseverance and the work she puts into her career. I hope one day I can meet her and see her dance live, which must be a great show and truly a luxury.  Maybe the world of dance will bring us together at some point in life haha xd.  Bye.  

 I remember perfectly well that day. It was the third performance of a dance show with which we toured the Maule region. I remember that for that tour we had a creative process of a year to create the work, after that many hours of rehearsal to achieve what we wanted.  The day was very sunny in 2017 and we had to dance in the square of the town of Romeral, a town located north of Curico. People began to arrive very early to see us and enjoy the play. By the time the show started, the square was full of people and mostly children. At the end, a little boy came up to me with his mother to ask me for a picture, since he loved the way I danced and he told me that he really liked to dance and that his dream was to be a dancer. At that moment I was very excited, because I felt that I had been the inspiration of someone else, and even more of a child, which made me remember when I was little and I just liked to move and jump from one side to another. It was a very beautiful moment an...

The truth is that I have only been to one concert in my life. It was Francisca Valenzuela concert, I think it was in 2017, I don't remember very well. I heard on the radio that Francisca Valenzuela would do a concert in my city (Curicó), I immediately told my mom that we should go and we bought tickets. Just that year I had started to listen to Francisca's music a lot, so I was very excited to listen to her music haha xd.  The day of the concert we arrived very early, and we managed to be among the first rows. Without doubt it was an incredible experience, since Francisca Valenzuela played almost all the songs alone with her piano, which made if feel very intimate and exciting. My mom loved it and she remembers this day when we went. I think being with my mom was very nice, because for both of us it was our first concert and we enjoyed it very much. I would love to go to many concerts, especially Illapu, one of my favorite Chilean bands. I hope that soon there will be concert a...

 It is very difficult to choose just one country xd, because I would love to travel all over the world. If I had to choose one it would be Israel, but only because the dance company I like is there. The truth is I don't know much about the country, only that they are one of the leaders of immunization against covid hahaha xd, and I've seen on TV that they have some conflicts with some countries. I would like to be there and be part of Batsheva Dance Company, because it is my favorite dance company, so it would be a dream to be there. I'm not lying that I'm a little scared, because of the conflicts in the country, however I think it is a very different country from Chile and I would like to know and learn from this culture. I would like to live in Israel, but not forever. I dream of living in a European country and continue my life there.

I think this is something that people always ask when they know that someone studies arts or in my case dance, they always question how art contributes to make the world a better place.  I believe that art and dance in particular helps people to be more conscious with their bodies, to feel free and to be better people.  I also believe it helps people escape from their realities and simply enjoy movement, movement which for me is life. It's hard to think about how I would help this change, I think I would do it in trying to empower people, to train people to have a better quality of life and better health.  I also believe that art helps to express feelings and show social inequalities, looking at it that way I believe that art is highly political, and being an artist is a political position.  It is interesting what is emerging and how this question is posed, because I think there is always a different answer and that is beautiful, because it means that we are changing...

Juliano Nunes, born in 1990 in Brazil. He studied at the Brazilian Conservatory of Dance in Rio de Janeiro, furthered his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim and was accepted as an apprentice at the Karlsruhe Ballet. His professional career began the following year, when he was hired by the company.  Juliano has worked as a choreographer for the Theater Opera de Paris and the National Ballet of Canada. He directed Maria Khoreva, soloist dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia a nd before the pandemic he created a piece for the AcostaDanza company in Cuba.  I like him very much as a dancer and choreographer, because he mixes classical ballet technique with contemporary dance. Something I really like and try to do when creating or dancing. I also think he is a reference for me because he is Latin American and I feel a little closer to him.