Gabriel Galindez Cruz
Gabriel Galindez Cruz was born in Cali, Colombia, and lives in Berlin. He studied contemporary dance and choreography at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d'Angers in France, and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Galindez Cruz is a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer and develops choreographies for concerts, dance theatre, musicals and operas and produces his own pieces. Furthermore, he conceives and is responsible for inclusive school and educational projects, regularly gives creative dance workshops for children and holds dance education seminars at universities and other institutions. As one of the teachers of the children's dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests, he teaches children and young people. Since autumn 2020, he has also been teaching theatre education students at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
As a choreographer, he has worked with the ŻfinMalta National Dance Company in Malta, the dance company CREA in Bogotá, Colombia and in Berlin at Radialsystem, Sophiensaele, DOCK 11 and FELD - Theater für junges Publikum. He has worked with conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada for the Colombian Youth Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra and has developed choreographies for plays by directors Olaf Strieb and Malte Kreutzfeldt.
With the dance theatre series OTTO AUGENMERK, Galindez Cruz has been developing an inclusive and participatory art form for young audiences since 2021, combining his artistic and social fields of interest.