Felipe Fizkal

Felipe Fizkal (1990, Puerto Montt, Chile) I am a choreographer, dancer, teacher, producer and curator based in Berlin. My practice resonates with and seeks to invoke post-anthropocentric ways of understanding choreographic production and creation, bringing practices that belong to precarious contexts in the global south and placing them in coexistence with conventional and specific spaces for their staging. Coming from a precarious rural background in the Latin American middle class, my work has its political roots in class consciousness, CUIR thinking and a decolonial perspective from the Global South.

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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.

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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) Bernardo San Rafael (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.

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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 CUIR-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 the Imaginary infrastructure bottom up productions,  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) and a second collaboration with Tanz Tage Berlin, in Collaboration with Isabela Fernandes Santana "O Que Resta Do Fogo" in Janury 2026.

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In 2025, Fizkal completes his Master in Choreography at HZT Berlin, consolidating his artistic practice at the intersection of choreography, pedagogy, and cultural organization. His Master Piece "SUR" is invited to the programm of "GAM" chile for the year 2027. 

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