Gabriela Burdsall is a dancer and choreographer who lives in Miami, Florida. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, theater, performance and visual art. Born and raised in Cuba, in her practice she uses rhythm and fictions as tools to connect multiple dance forms that expand from popular and traditional to modern and contemporary. She also develops performance-based and curatorial projects around the legacy of her grandmother Lorna Burdsall, a pioneer in Cuba’s modern dance.
She worked for eight consecutive years at Danza Contemporánea de Cuba with choreographers such as Mats Ek, Àngels Margarit, Jan Linkens, Billy Cowie, Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio, Itsik Galili among others, and toured with their pieces internationally. She graduated from the National Dance School (E.N.A) in 2007, and received a Bachelor's in Contemporary Dance from the Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A) in Cuba in 2015.
William Ruiz Morales is a Cuban artistic director, dramaturg, and organizer living and working in Miami, Florida. William creates choreographed performances which include sound, movement, choreography, text, and installation. His artistic goal is to create the conditions for the audience to dive into a territory that feels authentic and open to their own experience. In William’s practice as dramaturg, he has maintained creative partnerships with composers, choreographers, and theater-makers. He is interested in identifying shared experiences and relocating that into poetic moments. His work is about activating deep attention to our collective present, where history traces manifest in our daily lives.
He graduated from Theater Sciences at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana in 2007 and in 2016 completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.