Florencia Varela

Florencia Varela (born March 23, 1957 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan dancer and choreographer .

Florencia Varela received her education from 1972 to 1975 at the Westchester School of Ballet in New York, from 1975 to 1976 at the State University of New York at Purchase and in 1977 at the Martha Graham School and the Alvin Ailey School. In 1978 she worked at the International Ballet in Caracas . In 1982 she learned the Martha Graham technique from Carl Parisi . Three years later she danced with Crístine Tanguay in Madrid. She also took lessons in Argentina from Cristina Barnils and Juan José Bellini . From 1982 to 1986 she taught and worked in Madrid . In 1986 she took up a position as a lecturer at the Escuela Nacional de Danza and in the same year founded the group Contradanza , of which she was also director. In 1991 she received a scholarship at the American Dance Festival as a foreign choreographer . The following year she was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship . In 1996 and 1997 she took part in festivals in Santiago de Chile , San Pablo and Porto Alegre upon invitation . In the following year she became an internationally recognized Feldenkrais method teacher. In 2001 she worked as a freelance choreographer for SODRE as part of Tabula rasa . Florencia Varela is also active in martial arts. She is the wearer of the blue belt in Aikido .

literature

Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 343

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Contradanza levanta vuelo (Spanish), accessed 8 March 2012