Zúñiga
Gabriel Zúñiga is a Colombian artist working across dance, performance, writing, and pedagogy. Her practice—a sustained triple escape through movement, image, and text—sits at the intersections of body, memory, language, and identity, understanding movement as a form of embodied thought and affective resistance.
Since 2019, she has been developing studies in dance and performance, with a research focus that articulates trans experience, Latin American territory, and the poetics of the body. This research includes her presence in “Reverdecer” critical dance studies project in Bogotá (2022), which explored movement in relation to territory, ritual and environment. She has created works such as Studies for Guitar and Gender, The PassionChero, Clerical dreams of my ancestors, Witchcraft and memory exercises and The Latin Faggot, the latter presented in March 2024 at the PERFORMdANCE festival in Salzburg. In all of them, she explores Latin and trans identity from the body that carries it, the rhythm with which it presents itself, and the gesture that defends it, co-creating and sharing the art experience with different international artist as well.
In her work, intimate and public gestures converge; dance becomes a living archive and writing a score of the body. Her work moves between the processual and the scenic, prioritizing the construction of spaces where the body can name itself, reinvent itself, and be shared. Through this corporal methodology, her practice contributes to a critical cultural dialogue and the safeguarding of intangible, embodied heritage.
Experience
- Albertina Modern. Marina Abramovic
2025-26 Performer. Vienna . Austria.
Salzburger Festspiele JEDERMANN
2025 Dancer. Salzburg. Austria.
La MORGUE Festival
2025 Dancer, Choreographer and Workshop facilitator Salzburg. Austria.
SEAD Course Program.
2023-25 Teacher. Ballet, Afro Fusion, Contemporary. Salzburg. Austria.
Salzburger Festspiele LE CONTES D’HOFFMAN
2024 Dancer. Salzbur. Austria.
PERFORMdANCE SALZBURG #34 Festival
2024 Dancer, Choreographer. Salzburg. Austria.
LA CASONA DE LA DANZA. Danced writings, body gramar.
2023 Teacher, improvisation workshop. Bogotá. Colombia.
Reverdecer (greenuo) Critical studies of dance.
2022 Proyect member. Living arts. Bogotá, Colombia
Loris Petrillo Dance Company
2021-22 Dancer. Tuscania. Italy
Lasinfin Collective
2020-21 Performer and Teacher Bogotá Colombia
Colombian Dance Company
2018-21 Dancer and Teacher. Bogotá, Colombia
International Ethnic Folklore Festival
Education
- UNAB (Autonomous university of Bucaramanga)
2023-now Professional in literary studies. Bucaramanga. Colombia
- SEAD (Salzburg experimental academy of dance)
2022-25 Dancer and Performer Salzburg. Austria
- Acosta Danza National School of dance
2018-21 Professional mixed media dancer. La Habana. Cuba
- Compañía Colombiana de danza.
Recognitions
- Young Talent Scholarship
2023 ICETEX. Colombia
- Youth America Grand Prix








