A Passo di Mulo
21st - 23rd February 2020
Open Spaces - Tanzfabrik
Berlin - Germany
is a Colombian independent choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. She received a MA degree in Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance -HZT Berlin and a BA degree in “Communication of the Arts of the Body” with an emphasis on Dance and Theater from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo - PUC-SP in Brazil.
Gómez is awarded the Dance Practice/Tanzpraxis Scholarship 2020-2021 by The Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Dis-tanz-solo Funding 2021 of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and the Residenzförderung of Fonds Darstellende Künste at Mousonturm Frankfurt.
Her recent choreographic work Träumerei des Verschwindens premiered in 2022 at Radialsystem Berlin was supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europa Einzelprojektförderung 2021, as well as A Passo di Mulo in 2018, which was further supported by the Wiederaufnahmeförderung in 2019. A Passo di Mulo celebrated its premiere in the frame of the Open Spaces Festival co-produced by the Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Her work Restraint was developed at ada Studio and premiered at Sophiensaele during the Tanztage Berlin 2018. Presented in various venues across Europe, Restraint is also part of the European dance platform Aerowaves Twenty19. Her choreographic research Chão Vazado was supported by the Einstiegsförderung 2017 of the Berlin Senate.
In collaboration with Julek Kreutzer, Lina developed the project Choreographies of Fear, Responses to Invisible Strategies (2016) during an artistic residency at the Centrum Amarant in Poznan, Poland.
Her work Estudosparaocorpocomotradutorpoéticodaimagem (2015) was sponsored by the Goethe-Institute to participate in the Festival Circuito Vozes do Corpo in Brazil.
Gómez was Artist-in-Residence at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin-DE 2015, BangaloREsidency 2018 - Goethe-Institut in Bangalore-IN, Be Mobile-Create Together! IKSV- in Istanbul-TK 2019, Fleetstreet Theater in Hamburg-DE 2020, Radialsystem Body, Time, Space in Berlin-DE 2020, Schloss Bröllin - DE 2021, Villa Kamogawa Goethe-Institut in Kyoto-JP 2021 and Resonancias -Goethe-Institut/Institut Français in Pucon - CL 2021.
Furthermore, she is co-founder of the Companhia Aberta de Dança of São Paulo-BR (2008) and has been developing works collectively (Trabalho em Branco para Público Nenhum, Sapatos Cegos and Entre Eu e Você) there ever since as a choreographer and performer. In addition, Gómez has also worked as a dancer with Yoshiko Chuma, Tino Sehgal, Edson Fernandes and Jorge Garcia, among others.
