Itahisa Borges
Itahisa Borges is a performing arts creator, dancer, and Contact Improvisation facilitator. Her practice unfolds across the performing arts, movement, and somatic techniques. For nearly twenty years, she worked as a performer and stage creator, first with the international company The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, and later with her own company, Sinécdoque Escena. In recent years, she has focused on Contact Improvisation as the core of the pedagogical and community-based project Cuerpo Escuela. After entering motherhood, she began a new artistic phase under the name Poética Leona, through which she is currently developing two works in progress: En esta isla no hay serpientes and Intervenida, open-ended formats in which she questions the boundaries between creation and life, art and caregiving, performer and public.
