PEPO SILVA
Choreographer and Artistic Director
Jose Urrea Silva is a Chilean artist, Publicist with a mention in Art Direction, Dance Performer with amention in Choreography and a Master in Commercial Communication and Creative Marketing, withstudies in the field of Contemporary Dance, social and urbans dances and Sociology. Based inSantiago, he founded Plataforma MONO 8 years ago, and currently La Mutante, which is his briefcareer, obtained the 2020 Prize from the Chilean Art Critics Circle, for his first piece PUNCH; Artistassociated with Centro NAVE, he has collaborated in OPENScape Platform (Ch.), IMPROVÁVELproduçoes (Br), and participated in the creations of Rodrigo Pérez, Carolina Bravo, Joel Inzunza,Pseudónimo Cía, among others. His work as a creator and performer has been presented in Germany,Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico.
In management and production, he creates and directs the National Dance Awards, MUTA awards, theSUDA training program and creation cycle, among others. He has worked in Communications atEspacio Vitrina and Centro NAVE; and in Teaching at the University of Las Américas and the ModernSchool of Music and Dance.
He currently investigates interdisciplinary approaches to stage creation, with the main focus on LatinAmerican socio-political contexts in search of his own and sudaka contemporaries.
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