PATRICIA LORENA SOLÓRZANO is choreographer, dancer and Professor of Dance at Universidad de las Américas Puebla in San Andrés Cholula, México. Her work is guided by improvisation, environmental psychology, walking, identity/memory and connection to place.
She was a 2018 resident artist at Guapamácataro Center for Art & Ecology, Michoacán and a 2017 Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins. She trained with Vertigo Dance Company Jerusalem, Israel, and performed in works by Noa Wertheim, Mats Ek, Sasha Waltz and Nacho Duato. In addition, she has been in residence at E|MERGE, Earthdance, Keshet Makers Space Experience, Albuquerque and has taught and presented work at Performática, México; ResExtensa, Italy; the Florida Dance Festival, and the Detroit Dance City Festival. In Detroit, her work has been shown at the Lightbox, the Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts and SpreadArt gallery and she was twice a finalist for the Maggie Allesee New Choreography Award. In New York, she has been invited to show her work at Triskelion Arts, and most recently she performed her solo todas las versiones de ella at Movement Research at the Judson Church.
As a dancer, she has performed for various dance companies and artists including Psophonia Dance Company (HOUSTON), Earthen Vessels: The Sandra Organ Dance Company, DDCdances, People Dancing, Ann Arbor Dance Works, Kristi Faulkner Dance, and jill sigman | thinkdance.
In addition to her performance and teaching work, she also works as festival organizer. She is founding co-organizer and former Media Manager of INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival in Queens, New York and she is currently co-director of Performática: Foro Internacional de Danza y Artes del Movimiento in San Andrés Cholula, México.
She received her BFA from Texas Christian University and MFA from the University of Michigan.
She was a 2018 resident artist at Guapamácataro Center for Art & Ecology, Michoacán and a 2017 Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins. She trained with Vertigo Dance Company Jerusalem, Israel, and performed in works by Noa Wertheim, Mats Ek, Sasha Waltz and Nacho Duato. In addition, she has been in residence at E|MERGE, Earthdance, Keshet Makers Space Experience, Albuquerque and has taught and presented work at Performática, México; ResExtensa, Italy; the Florida Dance Festival, and the Detroit Dance City Festival. In Detroit, her work has been shown at the Lightbox, the Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts and SpreadArt gallery and she was twice a finalist for the Maggie Allesee New Choreography Award. In New York, she has been invited to show her work at Triskelion Arts, and most recently she performed her solo todas las versiones de ella at Movement Research at the Judson Church.
As a dancer, she has performed for various dance companies and artists including Psophonia Dance Company (HOUSTON), Earthen Vessels: The Sandra Organ Dance Company, DDCdances, People Dancing, Ann Arbor Dance Works, Kristi Faulkner Dance, and jill sigman | thinkdance.
In addition to her performance and teaching work, she also works as festival organizer. She is founding co-organizer and former Media Manager of INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival in Queens, New York and she is currently co-director of Performática: Foro Internacional de Danza y Artes del Movimiento in San Andrés Cholula, México.
She received her BFA from Texas Christian University and MFA from the University of Michigan.