Felipe Fizkal

Felipe Fizkal (1990, Puerto Montt, Chile) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and cultural organizer based in Berlin. His artistic practice moves between contemporary dance, popular and sacred practices, focusing on the relationship between voice and body, trance states, and collective resistance strategies. Coming from a precarious rural environment of the Latin American middle class, his work is politically rooted in class consciousness, queer thought, and a decolonial perspective from the Global South.

Since 2010, Fizkal has developed independent and interdisciplinary performances addressing themes such as HIV, sexual and gender-based violence, extractivism, and state oppression. He understands choreography as a tool to question power relations and to reactivate the body as a site of memory and resistance.

He studied Arts and Dance at the Universidad de Chile (BA, 2014), where he also began directing his own creations through initiatives such as Creativo Beso Negro and Felipe Fizkal Project, with works including Corvus Corax (2011), Y mi mamá sabrá (2012), Unstoppable (2015), Las locas lúcidas (2016), Extinción (2016–17), and Los guerreros del hambre (2018). Between 2010 and 2017, he performed in Chile with choreographers such as Joel Inzunza, Andrés Cárdenas, José Vidal, Ana Carvajal, Alena Arce, Luiz Corvalán, and Mauro Barahona (Chile/Spain), while also teaching contemporary dance in institutions including Balmaceda Arte Joven in Santiago and Puerto Montt.

In 2017 he moved to Europe, training at Art Factory International in Bologna and participating in projects in Switzerland and Germany. Since 2018 he has been based in Berlin, where he works both as a performer and teacher. He has collaborated as a dancer with choreographers such as Lina Gómez (Träumerei des Verschwinden, 2022; Wirrungen, 2024), Golde Grunske (Klänge der Lausitz, 2022–25; Heimatland?, 2023–24), Jule Flierl, Sasa Queliz (The Shape of a Dream, 2021–22), Kenan Dinkelmann (Sunson, 2018), Animi Motus (Networking, 2021), and Babak Rahmed (Execution in Prison, 2023) Bernard San Rafae (Wasser and CARIBE 2025. His teaching practice has reached institutions and festivals in Chile, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, Poland, and Germany, including Marameo, Tanzfabrik, and Dock11 in Berlin.

Beyond his individual artistic work, Fizkal has consistently fostered collective and collaborative structures. From 2019 to 2021, he co-founded and performed with Tanz den Widerstand Berlin, a collective of queer-migrant performers creating site-specific works in public space. In 2024, he co-founded the Emergence Cooperative with Carolina de Vega, designed as a platform for artistic exchange and networking among dance makers in Berlin. That same year, together with Julek Kreutzer, he founded Bottom Up Productions, a structure questioning hierarchies in contemporary dance and performance production, with its first collaboration premiering at Dock11 in April 2025 (INNER-MINING – Experiment 1: Voice, choreographed by Jule Flierl).

In 2025, Fizkal completes his Master in Choreography at HZT Berlin, consolidating his artistic practice at the intersection of choreography, pedagogy, and cultural organization. He conceives the production of contemporary dance not only as an artistic practice but also as a sustainable medium to establish dialogue between the independent and institutional scenes and to cultivate reciprocity with both social and natural environments.

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