Paty Lorena Solórzano (she/her)
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is a bi-national, independent dance artist and choreographer originally from Mexico whose practice is primarily guided by improvisation as a means to research embodied ecology, migration and connection to place. A 2024-25 Dance Source Houston Artist in Residence, her latest work La Maleza premiered at Barnstorm Dance Fest 2025, and will be performed at the International Dance Festival NOLA in September 2025. She performed Threads & Traces alongside sound artists Anthony Almendárez and Gabriel Martinez at the Menil Collection in May 2025. In spring 2024, Paty choreographed and performed in Evan Silver a.k.a Tiresias’ UNDERWORLD: Uncanny Valley at the House of Yes, NYC.
Beyond performance, Solórzano served on the 2025 Arizona Dance Film Festival selection committee, screening her own film Acaso, las flores. In 2024-25 as part of her ongoing site-specific dance project, Danzas Migratorias: Choreography for the Monarch Butterfly, she was invited to perform at Queretáro Experimental in Mexico, and presented her research at the 2024 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference. She also held residency at Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS), gave talks and performances at Autonomous University of Mexico Campus Morelia, and Hardberger Park San Antonio; performed a telematic version of Memoria entre alas III: Duet at Noise Floor in Portugal and Visiones Sonoras 21 Mexico, and is co-authoring a Texas University Press book chapter on ritual, memory, and recorded sound alongside composer and acoustic ecologist Rob Mackay. Currently a resident artist at Houston Met Dance, she also performs regularly with Houston’s Nameless Sound. (More bellow) |
Photo by Victor Blanco
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Photo by Victor Blanco
With a poetic imaginary, Paty's work has been presented nationally at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Mind the Gap presented by Dance Source Houston, Sidewalk Festival Detroit, The Lightbox, Detroit Dance City Festival, Florida Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, AUNTS New York, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. Internationally, she has performed in Mexico at Primate Escénico, Performática, Querétaro Experimental, Estada Intertour Dansa 24-city tour in Catalunya, Spain, at St. Andrews University in Scotland, UK, NoiseFloor Conference, Portugal, with Vertigo VIDP Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine, in Italy with ResExtensa, and with ChavasseDance&Performance/ Grupo Krapp through Costa Rica's Ministry of Culture. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, she was chosen to represent UM Dance at ACDA in 2015 and she was twice a finalist for the Maggie Allesee New Choreography Award.
Past residencies include: Keshet Makerspace, iMEE | Blank Slate, Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist residency with Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins, Moving Current / NewGrounds Choreographic Residency at the Florida Dance Festival, EMERGE Earthdance, Laboratorio Condensación Mexico City, Guapamácataro Arts & Ecology, and the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. She is a 2018 NALAC Leadership Fellow and 2023 recipient of a Mexican National Endowment for Culture and the Arts “Young Creators” (SACPC) award for her project Danzas Migratorias: Choreography for the Monarch Butterfly.
Her dance films have been screened at RAD Fest, Detroit Dance City Festival, Detroit Contemporary/SpreadART Gallery, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and DANCE SHORTS: Film Festival where her film What Will Remain (2014) won the first place prize in 2015. Her dance film project LLEVAMOS HORAS GRITANDO PRESENTE premiering in 2026, in collaboration with director Natasha Rodriguez y Ramirez, received a Puebla Program for the Promotion of Artistic Creation and Development Grant (PECDA). She has starred in Flor es Ser (2023), a short film by Mexican director Diana Morales of UNAyUNA Films and she was featured as a dancer in the music video Manos Ajenas (Touch You Everyday) by Dos Santos Chicago. Ms. Solórzano received an International Diploma in Coreocinema from Agite y Sirva Itinerant Videodance Festival.
As a dancer, she has performed in works by jill sigman, Amy Chavasse, Sophia Torres, Jessica Fogel, Anita Gonzaléz and Joel Valentin Martinez, Leyya Tawil, Erica Gionfriddo, Elijah Gibson, Susan Douglas Roberts, Sandra Organ Solis, James Sewell, Fernando Bujones, Sasha Waltz, Noa Wertheim, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, among others.
She has taught, performed and choreographed nationally and internationally in festivals, private studios and in higher education most recently as full-time Professor of Dance at University of the Americas Puebla, Mexico from 2019-2023 where she also served as Artistic Director of Danza UDLAP student dance company for three seasons. Guest teaching and choreography credits include: Frame Dance Productions Houston, University of Michigan, Riverside Community College, Ohio University, Arlington Heights High School, IBERO Puebla, Florida Dance Festival, Performática, and the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. She currently teaches and co-directs NULLorNOTHING a monthly improvisation workshop and showcase iniciative alongside Isabella Mireles Vik, and Thinking/Moving an open class at the Houston Met Dance.
In addition, Paty has ample experience in festival production having been Co-organizer and Media Manager of INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival in Queens, NY and serving in the organizing committee for Performática 2020 in Cholula, Mexico.
Paty holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and MFA from the University of Michigan.
Past residencies include: Keshet Makerspace, iMEE | Blank Slate, Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist residency with Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins, Moving Current / NewGrounds Choreographic Residency at the Florida Dance Festival, EMERGE Earthdance, Laboratorio Condensación Mexico City, Guapamácataro Arts & Ecology, and the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. She is a 2018 NALAC Leadership Fellow and 2023 recipient of a Mexican National Endowment for Culture and the Arts “Young Creators” (SACPC) award for her project Danzas Migratorias: Choreography for the Monarch Butterfly.
Her dance films have been screened at RAD Fest, Detroit Dance City Festival, Detroit Contemporary/SpreadART Gallery, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and DANCE SHORTS: Film Festival where her film What Will Remain (2014) won the first place prize in 2015. Her dance film project LLEVAMOS HORAS GRITANDO PRESENTE premiering in 2026, in collaboration with director Natasha Rodriguez y Ramirez, received a Puebla Program for the Promotion of Artistic Creation and Development Grant (PECDA). She has starred in Flor es Ser (2023), a short film by Mexican director Diana Morales of UNAyUNA Films and she was featured as a dancer in the music video Manos Ajenas (Touch You Everyday) by Dos Santos Chicago. Ms. Solórzano received an International Diploma in Coreocinema from Agite y Sirva Itinerant Videodance Festival.
As a dancer, she has performed in works by jill sigman, Amy Chavasse, Sophia Torres, Jessica Fogel, Anita Gonzaléz and Joel Valentin Martinez, Leyya Tawil, Erica Gionfriddo, Elijah Gibson, Susan Douglas Roberts, Sandra Organ Solis, James Sewell, Fernando Bujones, Sasha Waltz, Noa Wertheim, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, among others.
She has taught, performed and choreographed nationally and internationally in festivals, private studios and in higher education most recently as full-time Professor of Dance at University of the Americas Puebla, Mexico from 2019-2023 where she also served as Artistic Director of Danza UDLAP student dance company for three seasons. Guest teaching and choreography credits include: Frame Dance Productions Houston, University of Michigan, Riverside Community College, Ohio University, Arlington Heights High School, IBERO Puebla, Florida Dance Festival, Performática, and the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. She currently teaches and co-directs NULLorNOTHING a monthly improvisation workshop and showcase iniciative alongside Isabella Mireles Vik, and Thinking/Moving an open class at the Houston Met Dance.
In addition, Paty has ample experience in festival production having been Co-organizer and Media Manager of INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival in Queens, NY and serving in the organizing committee for Performática 2020 in Cholula, Mexico.
Paty holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and MFA from the University of Michigan.