Adriana Jimenez
Adriana Jimenez
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Bio

Originally from Mexico City, Adriana Jiménez is a Performing Arts professional with a multidisciplinary understanding of the discipline. She has an MBA in Performing Arts Management from the Institut d'Études Supérieures des Arts (FR, 2021), a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts (USA, 2019) and most recently she finished a Diploma in Stagecraft and Event Technology at Douglas College (CA, 2024)

Adriana has experience in the creation and production of cultural events such as Looom (FR, 2021), a space dedicated for multidisciplinary collaboration. She has worked in the administration and marketing of international dance companies and festivals. Currently, she has the pleasure of working as House/ Village Manager for the Arts Club Theatre and Bard on the Beach. With her recently acquired skills, she is excited to work for Proshow AV as technician and keep working towards her LPEC certification.

Adriana has performed under the direction of international artists such as: Tamara Cubas (Multitud; Festival Escénica, CDMX 2019), Gerard & Kelly (Reusable Parts / Endless Love, Philadelphia, 2018) and Yael Bartana (Bury Our Weapons not Our Bodies, Museo de Arte de Philadelphia, 2018).

In 2020, Adriana premiered work in international artistic residencies and festivals such as: Drove IX, Soft Concrete III and One on Ones. She is looking forward to working on her own creative practice and engage in a multicultural dialogue, with resilient adaptability.

Portfolio as Dance Creator

 

The existential practice of listening

Inspired by the experience of code-switching of an immigrant body, an open score questions embodied hierarchies. A solo somatic practice that aims to decenter the body in question by shifting frames from the witnessing camera, the surrounding space and the different parts of the body.

December 2019 - December 2020. Online.

Swotting Surrender; Serpent Specter

This short video focuses on a diverting, indissoluble, inner landscape. To the certainty of death and to the intricacy of life, in México, we say: "primero muerto que cadáver" (I rather be dead than a corpse.) 


Premiered in September, 2020. Online for Drove IX & X by Chlo & Co Dance. 

Cuida a mis vacas que a veces biene el diablo y baila con ellas (Take care of my cows because sometimes the devil comes and dances with them)

This piece gathers six performers into a collaborative process aimed to question the spaces surrounding the proscenium. Five bodies merge into a collective body that slowly evolves from classical to task-based movement. Without further narrative than the title itself, this piece appeals to a profound use of the perceptive senses, including smell, to reveal its compositional and formal logic.

Premiered in April, 2019. Philadelphia. USA.

Scarf

A solo that generates movement from the possibilities of being bound. Between the fabric and the skin, the individual renders unrecognizable, therefore, rising awareness in the performative state between the dancer and the audience. The body moves from states of tension and suspension creating architectural images. 

Premiered in December, 2018. Philadelphia, USA. 

Performing Arts Manager

2021- Current |CDMX, México | Multilogos

Assistant to the Directive Committee

  • Curated the programming of season 2021-2022 of a digital webinar.

  • Coordinate the automatization of newsletter, participant data bases, reminder of events and survey for quality control.

  • Moderate some of the sessions.

2021 | CDMX, Mexico | Black Box Co.

Production Assistant 

  • Assembled the scenery and props for “Les Miserables” at Nuevo Teatro Silvia Espinal directed by MB Teatro.

  • Collaborated with a team to coordinate the adequate mobilization and distribution of scenery and props during every performance.

2021 | Paris, France | iesa arts & Culture

Researcher and Writer

A New Look Towards Collective Engagement: Audience Development as Management Strategy to Increase Financial and Human Capital in Performing Arts Organizations

  • Designed a mixed methods research to evaluate consumer-oriented management strategies and their capacity to sustain the labour of performing arts organizations facing inadequate governmental support and declining economies.

  • Conducted a performing arts participation survey and interviews with El Arce and La Comuna (both performing arts collectives based in México City).

2021 | Paris, France | iesa arts & Culture

Artistic Director and Facilitator

LOOOM — A hybrid multidisciplinary festival that examines intersectionality through collaboration.

  • Directed the artistic outcome in relation to previous academic research on Intersectional Theory.

  • Created all the mediation texts presented to different investors, artists, collaborators and audiences.

  • Contributed to a multidisciplinary team effort by accomplishing the production of a small scale festival.

  • Facilitated a somatic workshop aimed to provide resources to recognize the body's autonomous responses to cultivate a practice of deep listening, internally and within a community as part of the digital programming.

2020 | SEATTLE, USA | NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE

Guest Artist

Creative movement teacher for the program: Our Big Neighborhood; Movin 'Around The World.

  • Workshop focused on multicultural social cohesion through active listening using dance and voice exercises.

2020 | SEATTLE, USA | METROPOLIS DANCE STUDIO 

Teacher

Creative movement pedagogy for after school programs in elementary schools.


2019 - 2020 | SEATTLE, USA |MEYDENBAUER CENTER THEATER

Front of House Manager

  • Deliver professional greeting of clients and visitors, to the highest standards.

  • Develop strong communication to guide service implementation.

  • Implement safe working practices to ensure safety of building occupiers and visitors.

2019 - 2020 | SEATTLE, USA | ALL THAT DANCE

Administration Assistant

  • Coordinated operational requirements, such as scheduling, supporting visitors and expediting work results.

  • Deliver professional communication via phone and email.

  • Operated the digitalization of 150 classes per week, using Studio Dance software.

2019 | CDMX, MEXICO |TALLER COREOGRÁFICO DE LA UNAM

Public Relations

  • Established and maintained relationships with the artists, audience and community that constitute the Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM.

  • Responded to requests for information in a warm and professional manner.

  • Contributed to the organization's objectives by coordinating the distribution of promotional material.

2018 | CDMX, Mexico City | Modern Museum of Art

Volunteer

  • Guide vistors using an arts education methodology that prioritizes a guided exploration that engages with critical dialogue and eliminates the psychological or cultural barriers that suddenly hinder observation.