Cinthia Pérez Navarro is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and independent performing artist from Puebla, México. She uses her work to engage nationally and internationally with the diversity of exchange between US and Mexican communities, celebrating its richness by incorporating ancestral knowledge into a contemporary movement practice, which includes stewardship and reverence for different ecosystems and cultures and how we embody that permeability to benefit the community we belong to.
Cinthia graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from the University of the Americas Puebla, México (UDLAP), and a Somatic Movement Educator from the Body Mind Movement México school. She is a member of binational interdisciplinary collectives such as XIPE Colectivo Escénico and Chicken Bank Collective. She has coordinated the Contact Improv Puebla community since 2013.
For more than a decade, she has been fortunate to nurture her practice in Contact Improvisation among practitioners inside and outside of Mexico. She has taught CI at festivals like The Field Center Summer Contact Festival 2024 VT, CI Fundamentals y Advanced Lab 2024 en Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center NC, San Pancho Fest 2023, Festival Pigmentos 2023, American Dance Festival NC 2018/19, Performática 2016/18, Encuentro Nacional CI México 2016-18 and through intensives in different universities, studios and dance programs at a local, national and international level.