Biography
Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, in 1982.
Choreographer, dancer and lighting designer. Has presented his own dance productions “The Factbook”, “White is the color of death”, “This was, this appears”, “Totoro”, “Disappear”, “Consagración”, “Zugarramurdi, o el prado del Gran Cabrón”, “Dim” and “Goat” on diferent venues in Amsterdam (NL), Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero (AR). He also participated as a performer in dance projects, besides his own, by Nora Heilmann, Katerina Bakatsaki, Diana Theocharidis, Doron Hirsch, Koyama Ai, Diana Gadish, Cecilia Gómez and Liliana Toccacelli. His artistic interests cover a very broad range. His choreographic work, characterised by high energy and intense physicality, is based on the exploration of very diverse creative approaches, that range from the abstract and conceptual to the very narrative.
Has designed lighting for concert, dance, opera and theater performances in multiple cities in Argentina, The Netherlands and Belgium. He lectured on “Communication in lighting and dance” and taught as assistant to teacher Arq. Eli Sirlin at IUNA’s Bachelor in Lighting Design (Buenos Aires). He authored the project for exterior decorative lighting to two national monuments and two City Government offices in the City of Pigüé, Argentina.
At present he is a fourth year student of the School for New Dance Development (SNDO; bachelor degree) of the Amsterdam Arts University (AHK). He is a holder of the prestigious Huygens Scholarship granted by the Dutch Ministry of Culture, and has received grants to support his work from Instituto ProDanza (AR) and AHK Fonds Practicum Generale (NL).
His coming projects include the project “GlasHard” (working title; collaboration with Melissa Coleman) and “J-scape” (working title), to be created in Japan with students from Ochanomizu University of Tokyo.
Personal information
- Real name
- Pablo Fontdevila
History
- Member for
- 16 weeks 3 days
