Tamara works in the field of dance and choreography. Born in Gran Canaria, they studied European Business and Psychology and worked as an underground music curator, DJ and tour manager until 2016. In 2018, they completed a master’s degree in choreography at DOCH, Stockholm, and presented FIEBRE, co-signed since 2019 with Lydia Ö Diakité, Marie Ursin, Nunu Flashdem and Célia Lutangu. The work has been presented in several venues in Europe and won the Young Choreographer’s Award in 2021. Their research revolves around sensual embodiments, fictions of sexuality/sexual organs and liminal physical states as choreographic tools. Her work is embodied and charged with resistance, intensity, self-pleasure and the power of dancing together.
Tamara has a growing passion for Dancehall and questions how to position herself as a white person with access to black culture, as well as the navigation between her work and Dancehall.
They is currently resident artist at the Arsenic, Lausanne, where they has created and presented NX FUIMO with Elie Autin, Marga Alfeirão and Cuba en 2022.
Recently, they has been concentrating on teaching, notably at La Manufacture, Lausanne, and Impulstanz, Vienna, while organising different types of workshops in collaboration with her collaborators, associations such as Rainbow Spot and CHO in Lausanne, and also with Jamaican artists.
The combination of working as a dancer, creating works, running workshops and taking part in collaborative practices is essential to them.