Mercedes Pedroche
Artist, Ballet, Dancing, Teaching, Theater

Stage creator, choreographer, dancer, and educator.
Her dance training spans Madrid, New York, Rome, and Vienna. She holds a Master’s Degree in Theatrical Creation from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Throughout her career as both creator and educator, she has developed transdisciplinary stage and pedagogical projects in which dance and theater mutually enrich one another, approaching art as a tool for reflection and social transformation.

She combines independent contemporary dance creation (Ártificios y Leopardos, Parámetros, Requiem al 33, Cambio curso de discusión avanzada por asiento con vistas, Grita) with choreographic work for film and major events, such as the Opening Ceremony of the IX South American Games Medellín 2010 (Colombia), the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 55th San Sebastián International Film Festival, and the documentary Sin vendas en la memoria, commissioned by the Basque Government as a tribute to victims of terrorism and directed by filmmaker Manuel Palacios.

She has taught in the Professional Training Program at Carmen Senra Dance School (Madrid), served as a tenured professor in the Dance Degree Program at the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia), directed the platform ARBOL – Living Creative Processes (Colombia), and been a guest teacher at institutions including Broadway Dance Center-Tokyo (Japan), the Medellín City Dance Network, the Institute of Culture and Heritage of Antioquia, and the International Seminar on Body Dramaturgies (Colombia). She has also served as a jury member for the Dance Creation Grants of the District Institute of the Arts of Bogotá and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia.