Ixchel Mendoza Hernández is a Mexican choreographer, performer and dancer based in Berlin. She completed her choreography and dance studies at Artez Arnheim in 2007. From 2013 till 2015 she had been engaged at the MA SoDA, HZT in Berlin.
In her choreographic works Ixchel investigates a phenomena she calls “Visual Ghost”, a phenomena that correlates directly with perception. We live in a world that contains both material and visible as well as immaterial and invisible elements. In which objective realities and subjective realities such as coexist. It is interesting for her to think and reflect on how these invisible elements, or constructed realities come into "presence" and become tangible. Her questions and interests relate to what causes these experiences, and how they expand into an intersubjective level. Through choreographic means she attempts to interweave the personal and the public, the individual and the social, reflecting upon how we can (re)construct and (re)shape perceptual realities through each other.
Her last two choreographic works “THE TWOFOLD PARADOX” and “The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4-6” dealt with the questions of the perception of information, and the influences and effects it has on our psyche, bodies. For her upcoming works, she (re)approaches the “Visual Ghost” through empathy, focusing on how this phenomena intersects with the political, by expanding upon this perspective to analyze power structures through the lens of intersecting social divisions such as racialization, gender and sexuality.
Her latest collaborations have been with the choreographers Kat Válastur, Anna Laura Lozza, Jamin Ihrac, Camila Milenchi, Lena Klink, developing the feminist online magazine SPREAD (Launch in August 2022), and theater director Susanne Kennedy, performing and developing the choreographic work in the restaging of the opera “Einstein on the Beach” (German premiere in July 2022 Berliner Festspiele).
*INSIGHT INTO THE VISUAL GHOST …∞…
In her choreographic works Ixchel investigates a phenomena she calls “Visual Ghost”, a phenomena that correlates directly with perception. We live in a world that contains both material and visible as well as immaterial and invisible elements. In which objective realities and subjective realities such as coexist. It is interesting for her to think and reflect on how these invisible elements, or constructed realities come into "presence" and become tangible. Her questions and interests relate to what causes these experiences, and how they expand into an intersubjective level. Through choreographic means she attempts to interweave the personal and the public, the individual and the social, reflecting upon how we can (re)construct and (re)shape perceptual realities through each other.
Her last two choreographic works “THE TWOFOLD PARADOX” and “The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4-6” dealt with the questions of the perception of information, and the influences and effects it has on our psyche, bodies. For her upcoming works, she (re)approaches the “Visual Ghost” through empathy, focusing on how this phenomena intersects with the political, by expanding upon this perspective to analyze power structures through the lens of intersecting social divisions such as racialization, gender and sexuality.
Her latest collaborations have been with the choreographers Kat Válastur, Anna Laura Lozza, Jamin Ihrac, Camila Milenchi, Lena Klink, developing the feminist online magazine SPREAD (Launch in August 2022), and theater director Susanne Kennedy, performing and developing the choreographic work in the restaging of the opera “Einstein on the Beach” (German premiere in July 2022 Berliner Festspiele).
*INSIGHT INTO THE VISUAL GHOST …∞…
Picture: Christian Knörr