Mercedes Boronat (1962)

In 1981 she begins her studies at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. In 1986 she receives a scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya and begins a four-year training in New York, at the Martha Graham School, José Limon Dance Company and Merce Cunningham Studio. In 1987 she wins the second prize of Tortola Valencia for the choreography “Jaucetz Gött” and begins her career as a choreographer. She founds the Satsumas company in 1993, with which she directs various performances, among which Petunias, in 1995. In 1997 she performs the performance Pelo de Tormenta by Francisco Nieva in the Centro Dramatico Nacional. In 1999 she joins the Centro Andaluz de Danza as a pedagogue and choreographer. La bicha del Edén and Bichos de Hierba are some of the pieces that toured in Andalusia. In 2000 she founds the Palacete de La Boro, a research center for the movement, where she creates her performances and teaches her methodology: the awareness of movement for actors and dancers who want to develop their creativity.

In 2001 she creates The Red Fox, a piece for the film The Tilse Luper’s Suitcase by Peter Greenaway.

Throughout her career she has been the creator of motion for different theater and opera productions, as well as stage director for emerging companies.

Her current work combines the performing and visual arts in both Moksha videos, as in the Butterfly and Magic Home stage productions, or in the performance installations To Vibrate (Palma de Mallorca 2010), or the trilogy Cold – Fred – Frio (Barcelona 2008), The End. Off (Lisbon 2009) and To Cook For

(Barcelona 2010).