Sofía Barriga Monteverde
About
Dancer, performer, choreographer, cultural manager, and teacher of contemporary dance and contact improvisation. She has worked as a performer with various independent contemporary dance groups in Ecuador and internationally in Colombia, Cuba, Sweden, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru and Japan. Co-founder of the contemporary dance collective Movimiento Centrífuga, with the Quito Concreto Festival and Ruta Conocimiento y Arte en Movimiento. Currently works with the contemporary dance group El Pez Dorado, with Grupo Verticálica aerial dance company, and as a guest dancer with the National Dance Company of Ecuador. She has been teaching contact improvisation for 14 years, awakening the practice in the country. Founder and creator of the Contact Improvisation Ecuador Festival (2017).