Ixchel Mendoza Hernández is a Mexican choreographer, performer and dancer based in Berlin since 2007. She completed her choreography and dance studies at Artez Arnheim in 2007. From 2013 to 2015, she was engaged at the MA SoDA, HZT, in Berlin.
Ixchel has been exploring a concept she calls "Visual Ghost" for many years. This concept deals with the principles of presence and absence and correlates with perception and inner virtuality. We live in a world in which objective realities and subjective realities exist side by side. The Visual Ghost corresponds to the ideas that become tangible by being experienced through our senses and become "real" by materializing in space through our consciousness. Ixchel Mendoza Hernández is interested in how these invisible phenomena come into the "presence" and through which events, social agreements, or circumstances occur. Through choreographic means, she reflects on how we can re-construct and re-shape perceptual realities through each other.
Her latest collaborations have been with the choreographers Kat Válastur, Anna Laura Lozza, Jamin Ihrac, Camila Milenchi, and Lena Klink, developing the feminist online magazine SPREAD (Launch in August 2022), and theater director Susanne Kennedy and visual artist Markus Selg, performing and developing the choreographic work in their re-staging of the opera "Einstein on the Beach" (German premiere in July 2022 at the Berliner Festspiele).
Previous 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 and bodies. For her actual works, THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER and The Infinite Gesture, 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 last two choregraphic works are THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER, premiered in November 2023 at Tanzfabrik Berlin in the frame of FOLD Ghosts & Demons, and "The Infinite Gesture," which premiered in December 2024 at Radialsystem under the cooperation :LOVE between Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem in Berlin and was funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Her upcoming choreography work, "A Scenario Of A System Off" (wt), will premiere in December 2025 at Radialsystem and is also funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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Ixchel has been exploring a concept she calls "Visual Ghost" for many years. This concept deals with the principles of presence and absence and correlates with perception and inner virtuality. We live in a world in which objective realities and subjective realities exist side by side. The Visual Ghost corresponds to the ideas that become tangible by being experienced through our senses and become "real" by materializing in space through our consciousness. Ixchel Mendoza Hernández is interested in how these invisible phenomena come into the "presence" and through which events, social agreements, or circumstances occur. Through choreographic means, she reflects on how we can re-construct and re-shape perceptual realities through each other.
Her latest collaborations have been with the choreographers Kat Válastur, Anna Laura Lozza, Jamin Ihrac, Camila Milenchi, and Lena Klink, developing the feminist online magazine SPREAD (Launch in August 2022), and theater director Susanne Kennedy and visual artist Markus Selg, performing and developing the choreographic work in their re-staging of the opera "Einstein on the Beach" (German premiere in July 2022 at the Berliner Festspiele).
Previous 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 and bodies. For her actual works, THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER and The Infinite Gesture, 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 last two choregraphic works are THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER, premiered in November 2023 at Tanzfabrik Berlin in the frame of FOLD Ghosts & Demons, and "The Infinite Gesture," which premiered in December 2024 at Radialsystem under the cooperation :LOVE between Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem in Berlin and was funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Her upcoming choreography work, "A Scenario Of A System Off" (wt), will premiere in December 2025 at Radialsystem and is also funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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