María Lucía Agón Ramírez: On the Importance of Networks and Spaces for Authenticity

Baseworks Transmission

In this episode, Patrick Oancia, Asia Shcherbakova and Maria Lucia Agon Ramirez discuss the experiences that shaped Maria's career in dance, from co-founding the TANZMOTO company to the creation of Mukti Espacio Vivo. The conversation delves into Maria Lucia's personal journey, including her struggles with educational expectations, the importance of family support, and the influences that led her to focus on spaces for authenticity and self-expression in her professional and personal life.

About María Lucía:

María Lucía Agón Ramírez is a Choreographer, Dancer, and Teacher of Contemporary Dance and Yoga. After high school in 1998, she joined the "Ballet Experimental Contemporaneo" in Colombia, performing at international festivals. She studied at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in France and Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. Since 2000, she’s performed globally and co-founded TANZMOTO DANCE COMPANY in 2004 with Mohan Thomas. She also collaborated with choreographer Royston Maldoom. In 2019, she returned to Colombia to work as a choreographer and dance teacher. In 2021, she founded MUKTI Espacio Vivo, focusing on community and interdisciplinary movement education.

Baseworks Transmission

These Baseworks Transmission conversations look at both the concrete and abstract realizations that emerge from a commitment to any kind of practice or pursuit to achieve life goals. The ideas get unpacked from their subjectivity, and the outcome of each transmission sets out to discover critical feature patterns and construct common recognition categories of physical and introspective experiences.

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