Vanessa Alexandra Vargas Roldán is a Venezuelan doctor, dancer, choreographer, performer, researcher and communicator. Her work straddles the practice of movement, research into living arts and critical writing about dance and performance. Her research deals with the living arts in Venezuela through the doctrine of the affections, archives and the practices pursued outside institutional boundaries, from a situated, sensitive perspective. She lived for a decade in New York, where she worked as a dancer and performer, collaborating with the MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum on exhibitions and activations linked to artists like Cecilia Vicuña, Lygia Clark, Yoko Ono and Simone Forti, among others. Her artistic practice explores the relations between body, memory, migration and collaboration, taking the form of choreographic projects, performative readings and spaces for transmission. Between 2024 and 2025 she had a research residency at the MACBA Research and Documentation Centre. She currently divides her work between Barcelona and other creative contexts, dealing with the diaspora, the poetics of relations and incarnate memories.
