Wanda Zúñiga - Des-aparción: Crónica de una pérdida

This dance work explores death with a specific focus on the disappearance of the "material body." My research asks: What happens to the body after death? How do those who remain stop perceiving the physical presence of a loved one, and what does that process of sensory adjustment look like?

In the original 2019 version, I explored resilience and the brain’s chemical reactions to loss. Enriched by my Master’s studies, I now want to deepen this by focusing on "material disappearance", the loss of perceiving another through sight, sound, smell, and touch. I am also re-evaluating whether technological tools, like the video mapping I used previously, still align with the core of the piece.

Idea, choreography and interpretation: Wanda Zúñiga
Music: Monkos
Videomapping and animation: Mats Van Mieghem

Graduate of the Bachelor 's Degree in Dance from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. In 2018, she joined the Contemporary Dance Company Fóramen M., based in Morelos, México. There, she participated in various works and performed on prestigious stages such as Sala Miguel Covarrubias, as well as in national and international festivals, including Morelos Danza and the Muestra Internacional de Danza de Oaxaca. In 2019, she became part of the Centro de Gestión Escénica Tierra Independiente (CGETI) in Oaxaca, México. She also contributed to cultural management, the organization of artistic residencies, and the coordination of CGETI’s festivals.

That same year, she received the PECDA Puebla 2019 State Artistic Subsidy to create and develop her first full-length work, Des-aparición: Crónica de una pérdida, which premiered in 2020 at the Teatro Juárez in Oaxaca City, the Teatro Ciudad Sagrada in Cholula, Puebla, and the Casa de Cultura de Cuetzalan, in the Sierra Norte of Puebla.

In 2023, she began her Master’s studies in Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, where she researched and developed her most recent artistic project, Where My Joy Resists, a work that premiered at DeSingel as part of the Master in Dance Residency Festival.