Lu Mendoza

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Biography

LU MENDOZA, 29 (GUADALAJARA, MEXICO) Actress, teacher, manager, producer and researcher of the body. Dedicated to the theoretical, practical community of the body, anthropology is the discipline in which he has for the development of body, body-community research methodologies and body-performance. Her training consists mainly of the Grotowski’s Laboratory Method, the Anthropological Theatre and the Experimental Dance. She has had practical approaches of body research methods such as Meyerhold Biomechanics, Dance Butoh and Somatic Dance, Vertical Daza, Clown technique and Yoga. FOUNDER of Acantilado Lunar in 2020, producer of performing arts and audiovisual. Coordinator of Art and Culture at the Community Center La Colmena San Juan de Dios, where she activates and detonates artistic community activities and sociocultural activities. Among their productions highlights the one-person BEHIND THE DRESSES BROKEN 2021, result of his research work in the Laboratory Theater Rabinal where he has lived since 2018. She has had the opportunity to participate in important meetings, such as the 1st National Meeting of Participating Theatres in Oaxaca (2019), the Festival International Community Theatre ENTEPOLA in Aguascalientes (2017), as well as the First Intercultural Festival of Guadalajara with JIU (Urban Indigenous Youth, 2018) in Jalisco. Has a degree in the Professional in Theatrical Art of CEDART "José Clemente Orozco" of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature and is an active student of the Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from the University of Guadalajara.