CAMILA ARROYO
(b. Mexico City, Mexico)hola@camilaarroyo.com
@camarrrom
EDUCATION
current PhD candidate, Performance Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
2023 MPhil, Performance Studies New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
2017 MA, Performance Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
2015 BA, Dance, Theatre, Film Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
2011 Ejecutante Danza Clásica, Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli
SELECTED WORKS | EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCES
2025 Ahínco. Film. Centro de Cultura Digital. CDMX
2024 Carpa. Museo Universitario del Chopo.CDMX
2024 XV Glitch. Mostra América Latina Casa França Brasil. Rio de Janeiro.
2024 XV Glitch. The Abundance. The Compound Baltimore. Curated by Rui Jiang.
2024 Life. Dir. Bob Kil & Nina Beier. Museo Tamayo, CDMX.
2024 Ahínco. Trópico Escénico. Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
2024 Screen as stage, Colector Gallery, CDMX
2023 Derrumbe, Centro de Cultura Digital, CDMX
2023 Sobremesa, Tumbao, NYC
2023 Carousel: imágenes para una cola, El Arenero Gallery, Mexico City
2022 Feromonas, Sabrina Ol SS23, Galería Unión, Mexico City
2022 Ahínco, Festival Querétaro Experimental, Querétaro
2022 Réplicas, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte MUCA, Mexico City
2022 Partirse en Dos, Loot Gallery, Mexico City
2022 Partirse en Dos, LagunaGallery, Mexico City
2022 ⋈ Dibujos que son Coreografías, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
2021 Danzas Crónicas, Centro Cultural España, Mexico City
2021 Soldaderas, short film
2021 III, Vernacular Institute, Mexico City
2021 Ahínco, Trazo, Loot Gallery, Mexico City.
2021 III, Sala Silvestre, Ags. Mexico.
2020 ¿Cómo volver a ser bailarinx?, Danza UNAM, Mexico City
2020 OME, 14th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2020 Caminata La Serpiente, Museo Experimental El Eco/Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2019 OME, short film
2019 Muevenoish, El Entresuelo, Los14, Mexico City
2019 Sobre las Convenciones del Dibujo, Frontera Residency, Mexico City
2018 Retrospectiva, Xavier Le Roy, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
2018 Sidra Bell Dance New York, Center for Performance Research, New York
2017 June, Evidence Performance Series, New York
2017 Piel, Peridance Capezio Center, New York
2016 Mambo II, Evidence Performance Series, New York
2016 Mambo, Chez Bushwick, Center for Performance Research, New York
2016 Shake and Walk, Movement Research Judson Church, New York
2014 Alvin Ailey Residency, Alvin Ailey, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
SCREENINGS
2025 Ahínco. Film. Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City.
2024 XV Glitch. Mostra América Latina Casa França Brasil. Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Lucid.
2024 XV Glitch. The Abundance. The Compound Baltimore. Curated by Rui Jiang.
2023 Soldaderas, Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today and Fashion Film Festival Milano, The Museum at FIT.
2023 Soldaderas, Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam
2022 Soldaderas, UK Fashion Film Festival, London
2022 Soldaderas, Cinedans Festival, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2022 Soldaderas, Fashion Film Festival Milano,Triennale Milano, Milano
2021 Soldaderas, Cine Tonalá, Mexico City
2021 OME, San Francisco Dance Film Fest, SF
2020 OME, High Line Nine Gallery, New York
2020 OME, 14th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2020 OME, POOL Internationale Tanz Film Festival, Berlin
2020 OME, In/Motion International Dance Film Festival, Chicago
2020 OME, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles
2019 OME, 4th International Dance Film Festival of Mexico City, Mexico City
FILM | FASHION | MUSIC VIDEOS | COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGNS
2024 Tiffany & Co. story for Harpers Bazaar print. December issue. movement/creative direction
2024 Emilia Perez film, Dir. Jacques Audiard, chor. Damien Jalet, dancer
2024 La Bruja de Texcoco “Tepari”, dir. Viviana Zuñiga. choreography & movement direction
2024 Nike Jordan, Spizike. dir. Satchel Lee. movement direction
2024 Muxxxe, “Cementerio” movement direction
2024 Julia, Dir. Julián Segura. Foro Lucerna choreography & movement direction
2024 Ecdysis, Nin Studio, choreography & movement direction
2023 Dior Cruise 2024 casting/choreography/movement direction/dancer
2023 Clairol “It’s so me”, Dir. Talia Collins movement direction
2023 Azotea: La Sala, dir. Darryl Richardson. movement direction
2023 Manglar, Carlota Guerrero, performer, Veracruz, Mx.
2023 Elderbrook, Talk It Over, music video. dir. Nettie Hurley, choreographer/movement director
2023 Fiebre de Oro, dir. Paloma Contreras Lomas, film. dancer
2022 Feromonas, Sabrina Ol SS23 runway show, choreographer/movement director
2022 Filia Store, campaign, dancer / choreographer
2022 Kris Goyri, SS23 campaign, dancer
2022 Laboratory with Damien Jalet for Emilia Perez film project, dancer
2022 Sauna, campaign, model
2022 Ben & Frank campaign, dancer
2022 Empress Of, music video, dancer
2021 Ela Minus, N19 5NF, choreographer | performer
2021 8 scenes campaign, JNBY, FW21 campaign, choreographer
2021 Children, Billy Porter, dancer / movement asst.
2021 Tierra, Zaavia campaign, choreographer | dancer
2021 Ximena Sariñana, Nohbords, dancer
2021 Innovasport, campaign, dancer
2020 Alane, Robin Schulz & Wes, Don Diablo Remix, dancer
2020 Alane, Robin Schulz & Wes, dancer
2020 MaroonWorld TV, choreographer | dancer
2020 Scortons Creek, Isaac Dunbar, dir. Jasper Soloff, mvmnt director | choreographer
2020 Espejo, Monstruos del Mañana, choreographer | dancer
2020 Ana, Ana de la Reguera, Amazon Prime Series, Revés Agency, dancer
2020 Malin + Goetz Campaign, Camila Falquez, model
2020 Official Rebrand Campaign, Satchel Lee, model
2020 Win It, Lola Kirke, dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall, dancer
2019 La Cultura es El Eje, dir. Ilse Salas, D. Giménez-Cacho, choreographer | dancer
2018 Connection, OneRepublic, dancer
2018 DRØME magazine, NYFW, choreographer | dancer
2017 DRØME magazine, Official Rebrand, dancer
2016 10 Crosby, Derek Lam, dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall, dancer | asst. choreographer
2016 Pantsuit Power, dir. Mia Lidofsky, Celia Rowlson-Hall, dancer
AWARDS | FELLOWSHIPS | RECOGNITIONS
2024-26 AFPE Becas de Posgrado para la Creación y Conocimiento Hacia el Futuro, Apoyo a Profesionales de la Cultura y el Arte para Estudios de Posgrado en el Extranjero. Conahcyt & SACPC
2024 Writing Fellow, Global Research Institute NYU Madrid
2023 Gallim Moving Artist Residency, New York
2022 Best Emerging Talents Film Award, UK Fashion Film Festival, nominee
2022 Writing Fellow, Global Research Institute, NYU Madrid
2022 Best New Director, Fashion Film Festival Milano for Soldaderas
2020 OME, La Biennale di Venezia, guest film
2019 OME, Dance Magazine’s dance video of the month
2019-’24 NYU Tisch School of the Arts Corrigan Fellowship Program Award
2017 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies Award
2017 NYU Tisch Leigh George Odom Memorial Award
2016-’17 Fundación Jumex de Arte Contemporáneo, Grant Recipient
2016-’18 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Paulette Goddard Scholarship
2014 Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize, First Prize
2012-’15 Sarah Lawrence College, President’s Scholarship
2008-’11 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Grant Recipient
2004-’10 Cuban National Ballet School & Ollin Yoliztli Cultural Center
2011 Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli, Gold Medal
2011 Attitude International Ballet Competition, Bronze Medal, Mexico
2010 Princeton Dance and Theatre, Full Scholarship, NJ
EDITORIAL
current Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, member: editorial collective
2020 NYU Performance Studies Prof. Alexandra Vazquez, New York, research assistant.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Museo Universitario del Chopo, CDMX.
2024 Global Research Institute, writing fellow. NYU Madrid
2023 Gallim Moving Artist Residency, New York
2022 El Entresuelo, CDMX.
2022 Global Research Institute, Residency, NYU Madrid
2021 Sala Silvestre Residency, Agsc. México
2020 Museo Experimental El Eco. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX
PRESS
2023 Soldaderas, Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today and Fashion Film Festival Milano, The Museum at FIT
2023 D’todo Derrumbe, Canal Once
2022 DNA Magazine, Girls in their Studios.
2022 Dance Magazine, Friday Film Break, “Camila Arroyo’s Soldaderas”
2022 i-D Italia, Soldaderas in “21 progetti dal Fashion Film Festival Milano che dovresti...”
2021 Director’s Notes, “A Stylised Contemporary Fighter is Reborn in Camila Arroyo’s...”
2021 Office Magazine, “Soldaderas”
2021 Latina Mag., “Dancer Camila Arroyo and Designer Sabrina Ol visualize a contemporary...”
2021 Local.MX, “Sabrina Ol y Camila Arroyo presentan una coreografía...”
2021 ONDA MX, “El Ritmo de Cargar”
2021 ELLE Magazine Mx, Camila Arroyo x X-Ray, print
2020 La Tempestad, “OME: Cuerpo y Memoria”
2020 momo room, “OME, Camila Arroyo en la Biennale de Venecia”
2020 ELLE Magazine, “Esta es la Videodanza Mexicana invitada a la Bienal de Venecia”
2020 marte bebé, podcast interview
2019 Dance Magazine’s “Dance Video of the Month”
2017 NBC News, “Dance group raises money for earthquake victims...”
FESTIVALS
2024 Trópico Escénico
2023 El Arenero, Performance Fest
2023 Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam
2022 Queretaro Experimental
2022 UK Fashion FIlm Festival
2022 CineDans, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam
2022 Fashion Film Festival Milano, Triennale Milano
2020 OME, International Festival of Contemporary Dance, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2020 POOL Internationale Tanz Film Festival, Berlin
2020 In/Motion International Dance Film Festival, Chicago
2020 Dance Camera West, Los Angeles
2020 Café Telephone, New York
2019 4th International Dance Film Festival of Mexico City
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024 Fuga: Improvisación de Movimiento y Experimentación Coreográfica. El Entresuelo
2024 “Fuga: Coreografía Crítica y Estudios de Performance.” DAJU Compañía Juvenil de Danza Contemporánea de la UNAM
2023 Introduction to Dance Studies, Adjunct Professor, New York University. fall ‘23
2023 Pensar la Práctica: un acercamiento a los estudios de performance. Workshop. El Entresuelo.
2023 El Entresuelo, “Permanente: Movement Improvisation” faculty
2021 NYU Tisch, Performance Studies, “Intro. to Performance Studies,” Prof. Alexandra T. Vazquez, teaching assistant
2013 Sarah Lawrence College, “Culture, Politics, and Violence in Latin America.” Prof. Deanna Barenboim
WORKSHOPS/MASTER CLASSES/GUEST SPEAKER
2024 Trópico Escénico, clase maestra. Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán.
2024 Praxis, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Keynote presentation for Dr. Danielle Goldman
2024 Praxis, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
2023 Derrumbe, Centro de Cultura Digital
2021 SUAVE Magazine, Movement Improvisation
2021 Sala Silvestre Gallery, Agsc. Mexico, Movement Improvisation
2020 Museo Experimental El Eco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mov. Improvisation
2019 Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Dialogues on Dance, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey, Dialogues on Dance, Mexico City, Mexico
RESEARCH
2020 NYU Performance Studies Prof. Alexandra Vazquez, New York, research assistant.
2019 Wesleyan College, Prof. Deanna Barenboim, research assistant
OTHER WORK
2021 NYU Tisch, Performance Studies, “Intro. to Performance Studies,” teaching assistant
2020 NYU Performance Studies Prof. Alexandra Vazquez, New York, research assistant.
2020 Barragán, SS20, NYFW, Maria Osado, Güerxs, casting assistant
2018-19 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, programming coordinator
2018 Rosie Assoulin, New York, PR assistant
2016-17 Peridance Center, international office assistant
2015-16 Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, New York, programming coordinator, admin.
2012-15 Sarah Lawrence College, Wesleyan Univ. Prof. Deanna Barenboim, New York, TA
2014 Repetto Paris, New York, PR assistant
TRAINING
2018 Sidra Bell Dance New York, Module, NYC
2017 Batsheva Dance Company Intensive, (Ohad Naharin, Batsheva dancers)
2010 Princeton Dance and Theatre (Susan Jaffe, Julie Kent, S. Saland)
2009 San Diego City Ballet ’09 (Gelsey Kirkland, David Howard, Susan Jaffe)
2004-10 Cuban National Ballet School, La Habana, Cuba
*other select intensives include Kidd Pivot, Loni Landon, Bobbi Jene Smith, Danielle Agami (Ate9), Bodytraffic.