camerino 4

Camerino 4 is a contemporary dance company defined by its exploration and research on the language of movement, dramaturgy and composition. Founded in 2000 by its artistic director, the choreographer Magdalena Brezzo, the company boasts over 20 choreographic productions staged in various formats.

The company’s staging displays the humour, contradictions and poetics of the Mexican symbolic world. Indeed, the works created by the company speak of our identity, our times and concerns and of what we are.

Company Camerino 4 directs its search towards the conception of its own discourse though without getting stagnant in the purely formal. It propounds a stage art wherein dance and the language of other art disciplines—film, theatre, visual and fine arts—fuse into one. This creative modality is evident on the dramatic structure of the works and can be perceived on their particular emotional atmosphere plus gets markedly displayed through the editing structure as well.

Hence, after 8 years of noted achievement, Camerino 4 has attained a distinguished place within the contemporary dance realm in Mexico.

To date the company has been three times and for three different works the recipient of the National Award for Dance, the most prestigious award to choreography in Mexico, and has been granted the Public’s Award.

MAGDALENA BREZZO

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay she is nationalized Mexican, she studied sculpture and contemporary dance as a dancer in her native country and obtained a bachelor’s degree in choreography at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance in Mexico City.

Founder in 2000 and artistic director ever since of Camerino 4 through which she has created over 20 works produced in various formats.

She received the INBA-UAM National Award for Dance in 2006 and again in 2003, in recognition of the innovation of her approach coming second for this prestigious award in 2004. At the 2007 Serpiente Festival in Morelia, Michigan, she was granted the Public’s Award to best work. Her most recent creation, Scrabble, a work co-directed by Angel Arámbula and Henry Torres, won the Public’s Award to best work at the San Luis Potosi Festival in October 2008.

Her award-winning work has won her numerous commissions in Mexico and abroad, New York’s Chase Latino Cultural Festival, Queens Theatre in the Park 2008; International Cervantino Festival 2007; Mexico City’s Historic Centre Festival 2009 and Cuerpos en Tránsito Festival 2008, Tijuana. Likewise, she has mounted multiple choreographies for schools throughout Mexico, among which are National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance, Nellie Campobello School, Dance University of Jalapa, School of Dance of Mazatlan, The National Academy of Dance and the Provincial Ballet of San Luis Potosi.

AWARDS AND FUNDINGS

Camerino 4 is selected to open the market for the Arts 2009

Development projects to support and co Cultural FONCA

ACRYLIC-Works Commissioner for the Chase Latino Festival NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Received funding from Cultural Co-investment and from FONCA
ACRYLIC Work commissioned by Chase Latino Festival of New York

Chocolate 2007 Audience Award for Best Work Serpent Festival. Morelia, Mexico
Public's Award to Best Work Serpent Festival, Mexico

2006 INBA-UAM Miguel Covarrubias National Award for Dance,
Federal District, Mexico

2005 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Videodance selected to be part of the MOMA collection, New York, USA

2005-2003 Funding from the Federal District Secretariat of Culture, Arts Program by all parties, granted in two consecutive years, DF, Mexico

2003 Stories multiple Choreography Contest Finalist MASDANZA.
Canary Islands, Spain

Finalist at MASDANZA Choreography Competition, Canary Islands, Spain.