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About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.: HELENA THEVENOT (b. Nicaragua) is an educator, researcher, experimental choreographer and solo performer based in Miami. Over the course of her career, Helena has been a recipient of multiple grants and fellowships to research, create and perform her works in the USA, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Colombia. She has furthered her studies in Japan with butoh founder, Kazuo Ohno and his son, Yoshito Ohno. She has received the 2006 - 2007 Lecture/Research Fulbright Scholar Award to Brazil, twice the Choreographer's Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs' Dance Miami Fellowship Program and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Honors in Dance. She is, also, a seven-time recipient of the Artist Access Grant awarded by the Dade Cultural Affairs Council and Tigertail Productions. She holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied under artists and scholars that included André Lepecki, Diana Taylor and Richard Schechner. Additionally, her eclectic dance background can also be traced to renowned artists such as Eric Hawkins, Kei Takei, Nancy Topf, Maureen Fleming, Akira Kasai, and Diego Piñon.
After arriving in South Florida in the late 80's, Helena emerged as a solo artist with a unique vision, often incorporating original music and visual imagery from artists such as composers Gustavo Matamoros, Jon Gibson, Alfredo Triff, Real-time VJ Benton Bainbridge and performance artist Maria Jose Arjona. Miami Light Project commissioned and presented Helena in their Here & Now Festival in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2006. Artemis Performance Network co-presented her full-length work, "The Anatomy of Desire" in 2000. Tigertail Productions commissioned and presented her work "The Moment Prior" in its FLA/BRA Festival '01. This work was showcased by Dance-Network on August 11th at the Cowell Theater in the New Visions: American Butoh program of the San Francisco Butoh Festival '02 and by the Hispanic Ballet's 7th International Ballet Festival of Miami at the Amaturo Theater in Broward, Florida. Her 2003 evening-length program, "Annotations" was presented by Living Arts of Tulsa's New Genre Arts Festival at the Nightingale Theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma and by Celcit's (Latin American Center for Theater Creation and Investigation) IX International Theater Festival at the Teatro Rufino Garay, in Managua, Nicaragua.
Certified in the Topf Technique since 1997, Helena has guest lectured and taught Topf Technique and Butoh workshops at festivals, colleges and universities nationally and internationally. She is an adjunct faculty at Miami-Dade College Arts & Philosophy Department, Barry University’s ACE and Fine Arts and at the New World School of the Arts Theater Division where she has been teaching since 1998.

Background:: butoh dancer, performance artist, choreographer, director, critic, scholar, writer

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