Mayahuel- Theatre Revolve

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Short Bio: Mayahuel Tecozautla is a Mexican actress, dancer and choreographer. Mayahuel comes from two Mexican aboriginal backgrounds: Aztec and Purépecha. She is a graduate of two of the most outstanding schools for performers and choreographers in Mexico City: the Theatre University Centre (CUT-UNAM), and the Choreographic Research Center (CICO-INBA). Mayahuel has over ten years professional performing arts experience in an extensive variety of settings including theatre, dance, film, television, and festivals.

As a choreographer, her pieces are based on profoundly explored and investigated content and form. Mayahuel creates her pieces through deep and intensive creative processes, which are based on the building of a strong and solid group of performers having diverse backgrounds, visions, and performing arts training. Her pieces are artistic products that cannot be defined as dance or theatre. Thus, her projects suggest an artistic challenge that is the creation of content and form based on the interdisciplinary.

She has been supported by the National Cultural Fund for Art and Culture (FONCA) in Mexico to participate in the Artistic Residency at the Banff Center in Canada, the Aboriginal Dance Training and Performance Program, and the Mexico on Stage Program for young artists.

Determined to follow a regime of ongoing training and growth, based on an interdisciplinary training, Mayahuel keeps taking programs, seminars, and workshops in Mexico and Canada, such as Ten Thousand Waves workshop with Denise Fujiwara, The Seven Laws of Transformation with Pol Pelletier, Theatre Revolve Program with Natasha Mytnowych and Beatriz Pizano, rAiz’n Performance Training Program with the Company “b current”, Voice as the Central Instrument in the Creation with Fides Krucker (Picasso PRO Project), Roy Hart Technique and Bioenergetics with Bernard Fontbute, Encounter of Eugenio Barba with Creative Young Artists with Eugenio Barba (Odin Theatre), Graduated in Research and Teaching of Contemporary Dance with Lin Duran, Physical Theatre with Bernardo Rubinstein, and Contact Improvisation with Thomas Steyaert (the Belgium Company “Ultima vez”)

Currently, Mayahuel is ready to start the Graduate Program in Dance at York University this fall 2007.

Please visit www.mayahuel.com.mx for more information about her.

Favorite Quote: “Make everything creative; make the best out of the worst –that’s what I call the art of living”. Osho

Where are you?: I am in Toronto, and the characteristic that I love the most about this city is its multiculturalism. This makes a unique place to develop new approaches to life and creation matters.

What are you up to now?: I still consider myself as a newcomer in Canada because I have only been here for around one and a half years. My adaptation process to “Canadian culture” has been a deep experience of transformation and a valuable opportunity to recreate myself. It has been like arriving in an empty, virgin, and colourless land, and to have the great opportunity of creating and coloring everything: my new reality, my own space, my own identity, my tribe, and so on.

Why is Theatre Revolve important?: Theatre Revolve creates an atmosphere that helps individuals to keep growing as a woman and as an artist. In Theatre Revolve I have met women whose backgrounds and ages are different from mine, and this has enriched my life by seeing their different ideas and point of views and being more open to them.