TEAM

ALEJANDRA SALGADO  ● TEACHER SPECIALISING IN DANCE AND EDUCATION

In the area of pedagogy, she has focused her teaching and research experience on children’s artistic-corporal education. She has participated in projects awarded with funds from the area of education of the exCNCA (exFNEA, now FAE), which later invited her to participate as a jury member. She collaborated with the exCNCA (between 2011 and 2014) in regional training programmes, dance projects in formal education, and in the development of the Curriculum Bases Proposal from 1st to 6th grade, among others.

She currently teaches at the Dance Department of the University of Chile and is a teacher of Dance and Performing Arts at the Liceo Manuel de Salas. She has focused her research on the relationship between play and dance, being her area of interest the artistic-corporal education from the approach of law and somatic practices. She participates in work teams on dance and education, managing the event “Encuentro Pedagógico: el lugar de la danza en la educación chilena” in 2016, and in the design and implementation of the Diploma “Cuerpo, Arte y Educación: la Danza como perspectiva de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la contemporaneidad” of the Universidad de Chile (2018-2019), where she coordinates the Dance and Diversity module. From 2020, she joined the team of Fundación CAI.

JOSÉ FEUEREISEN ● RESEARCH, SOCIOLOGIST

His experience has been mainly linked to sustainable community and territorial development in the dimensions of poverty, culture and education in both public and private spaces. He led the nomination of Frutillar as the first Chilean city to be recognised by UNESCO as a Creative City and from there he articulates a sustainable development agenda around culture and creativity.

CATERINA VALSECCHI ● PRACTITIONER, ART THERAPIST AND DESIGNER

Art therapist and graduated in Visual Arts. Since 2018 she has conducted workshops about exploration and artistic expression in different institutions contributing from the arts to people with special needs. She has developed workshops for Children at special schools and for adults in foundations and municipalities. With studies of Arts and theater in Chile, expression and disability in Argentina, she has specialized in generating spaces where people with disabilities can create and express themselves freely. In 2015, working at Las Dalias school she gets to know the Sound Stimulation Project and since then, she follows their interventions and progress. Finally, in 2018, she joins the project and becomes a monitor. On the other hand, she has developed a sustainable clothes brand from which she wants to encourage ecological awareness through the creative reuse of clothes not being worn.

JAVIERA ANABALÓN ● PRACTITIONER, DANCER AND EDUCATOR

Multidisciplinary artist with professional experience mainly in the areas of language, dance, education and audiovisual. Postgraduate studies in Latin American literature and philosophy together with more than 25 years of studies in dance and performance. Member of the management and content team of the Centro Experimental Perrera Arte in Santiago, for 8 years, and writer of critical articles on art and culture in various Chilean magazines and catalogues. She has more than 15 years of experience in pedagogy and teaching children, youth and adults in the areas of body expression, dance and language both in Chile and in China where she lived for 3 years. For the last 5 years she has been living in the south of Chile, where she has participated in numerous workshops and artistic-educational projects, as well as being an editor, director of photography and content editor in the audiovisual production company Kiwimedia. At the same time she develops independent artistic projects with local artists in the Los Lagos region.

MANUEL PAEZ ● PRACTITIONER, MUSICIAN AND EDUCATOR

Percussionist, drummer and composer. Graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a degree in Music. Throughout an extensive musical career in which he has more than 25 years of experience, he has worked in an innumerable amount of projects within which we can highlight his participation as a drummer of the Olmué Festival Orchestra for 12 years, percussionist of the Viña del Mar Festival Orchestra for the last 6 years and the participation in different jazz groups, big band and symphony orchestras both nationally and internationally. He has two published albums, in 2012 I published “Más allá de donde estoy” and in 2015 he released his second album titled “Límites”. In addition, he published a Latin American publication on the folklore of the drums entitled “Método de batería al sur del mundo”. As an educator, he has been teaching music for more than 15 years and encouraging the musical creation of his students.

FRANCISCO ESPINOZA PÉREZ ● AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCER

His first work is the short documentary film “how do you see Santiago de Chile in 30 years on?(2001). In 2003 he co-produces and directed the medium-length documentary  film “Omnivadar family”. In 2005, his nano short film “Cazuela” got the third place in “urban nano short films competition” organized by Plagio Magazine and TVN. From 2006 to 2011, he made several short documentary films, social oriented, for the Pro-niño Foundation and the national council of culture of Chile(“human treasures alive”). In 2011 he was commissioned by DAV (Andean German club) and SOCHEX(Chilean Society of Exploration) the make the medium-length documentary film “Mother of God Island”, which is about the first Chilean expedition to the most rainy place in the world. Since 2012, he co-directs the production company “Orgánica Films”, where he has co-directed  the medium-length film “Boys and Girls in action” for Balmaceda Arte Joven about art workshops in shantytowns of Chile and the short documentary film “learning in my language” which observes a deaf teacher teaching the chilean sign language as a first language to first grade students of elementary school. In 2018, he released at movie theaters the documentary film “Last Year”, which is about the discrimination suffered by deaf people in their school years.

CLAUDIA YOLIN  ● PRESIDENT

Born in Santiago, Chile she is currently living in the rural area of the region of Valparaiso. With 20 years of professional career, she has been part of important companies in the country and stage designer of important plays with a strong emphasis in aesthetics. Her work searches for development through simple lines, open metaphors and accessible visuality, looking for the richness of emotive and mental  places, the structural foundation of her work, adding value to the design as an aesthetic context favorable for a deep trip that will enrich the theater experience of everyone involved. Her work has been seen in the most important theaters in the country and internationally she has participated in plays, residences and extensive tours in Spain, Netherlands, USA, Italy, Argentina, Brasil, Germany, Uruguay, Ireland, Japan and Mexico with an extraordinary international critical reception.

RODRIGO MOYA ● TREASURER

Born in Santiago,Chile. He graduated in Sciences of Engineering, civil engineer in Mines and MBA at Chile university. Innate planner with an intensive career of more than 25 years developing projects with an integral view, besides considering  strategic commercial accomplishments of the mining industry, he focuses on including environmental issues plus a strong emphasis in the quality of communication of his work teams.  He is certified in coaching by Newfiled. In 2015 he was part of a short courses program at MIT. Currently he works as a project development manager and projects vice-president at Antofagasta Minerals company.