Javiera Peón-Veiga

Biography

Javiera Peón-Veiga, born in Chile, graduated in dance at the London Contemporary Dance School (The Place) in London in 2006. Between 2006 and 2009 she deepened her studies of choreography in France at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (CNDC) and at the Centre de Recherche et de Composition Chorégraphiques (CRCC). She was artist in residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts and at Le Point Éphémère, as well as in Berlin at Tanzfabrik. She has presented her works “Continuum” (2006), “ /_ || “ (2007), “Can’t take my eyes off you” (2009), “Ejecutando” (2009), “Dobles” (2011), “nosotres” (2012) in festivals and venues in Europe, Mexico, Uruguay and Chile, and collaborated with artists like Sergio Valenzuela Valdés, José Luis Vidal, Manuel Vason, Gabrielle Reuter, Jacqueline Roumeau, Macarena Campbell and Aische Schwarz. She lives and works in Santiago, Chile.