ARTIST STATEMENT

As a performer I strive for impeccable actions. As an artist I search for pure expression. As a teacher I look for new lessons.
I grew up as an athlete, competing professionally in both tennis and racquetball until the age of nineteen in my home country of Colombia. I started traveling within Colombia for national tennis competitions at the age of 8. This experience filled me with confidence and discipline. My desire to compete vanished when I started to contemplate my existence and realized ART as a must. I quickly moved in that direction, to find out my parents wanted something different for me a “Real Career”. While studding Psychology and Social Communications in the Universidad del Norte I got involved with their physical theater troop, directed by: Manuel Sanchez. http://luneta50.org.co/index_mainP.html
How much fun I found in learning! Traveling to theater festivals, performing on carnivals helped and exploring the open heartedness of humans, transformed my life.
On 2002 I published “Ocho Veces Tu Nombre” a poetry Plaquette designed by Maria Elvira Dieppa. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariaelviradieppa/.
During that time I cofounded SACO, an artist collective, which focused on addressing social/political issues through physical theater, music, comedy and poetry.
I performed with different theater companies in Barranquilla such as “Arte en produccion”, “Groupo de Teatro de la Universidad del Norte”, “Ahi Macondo” and acting for the TV channel Senal Colombia.
Experimenting with life I found myself drinking from an empty cup, reaching a dark bottom. This is when I had my first spiritual awakening and I started to honor my true path by devoting my life completely to the Ritual of Performing Arts.
This impulse gave me the strength to leave my loved ones and move to Chicago to be trained as a clown by the Pocket Circus Clowns from Argentina and do stage work internships with Red Moon Theater. I moved to San Francisco to continue my formal training in the circus arts. I received my diploma in 2009 from The Clown Conservatory at San Francisco Circus Center, while also working with Circus Pandemonium and training at The Flying Actor Studio.