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Diana Lopez Soto
Artist Snapshots 3 – 03.29.2023
8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm GMT
Diana Lopez Soto is an award-winning multidisciplinary Mexican/Canadian artist, mother and land caretaker. She has presented and exhibited her work nationally and internationally in France, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, the USA and Canada. She creates and co-creates site-specific performances, vertical dance, art installations and experimental film.
Her interest in sustainable practices informs her process and the responsibility of her art practice. Diana’s love for material, physics and relationships to space inspire her rigging designs, installations and sculptural sets that come to life through her movement explorations. From her grandmother to her mother and herself, Land has always shaped and informed her process.
In 2019, and thanks to the Canada Arts Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, Diana reconnected with the land and the communities of her ancestors in Michoacan, Mexico. She also participated in the Guapamacataro Art and Ecology residency and the Vancouver International Vertical Dance Summit. From 2017 to 2022, she collaborated and mentored with Alejandro Ronceria in her solo NOMADA. Diana is currently co-creating and developing work with Victoria Mata, Femme Du Feu, Look Up Theatre and Hercinia Arts. She is a member of Vanguardia Dance Projects and one of the founders of Land Embodiment Lab.
Artist Snapshot:
NOMADA
NOMADA is a multidisciplinary production and performance solo that seeks to connect audiences to a sensorial, visual and visceral experience through movement in response to material, breath and impulse. This multidisciplinary production activates the space by integrating rigging systems with installation art, vertical dance, artisan work, projection and contemporary indigenous dance. NOMADA is the journey of Creator through Skyworld, Underworld and Earth. It is the everyday act of regeneration, restoration and affirmation of the fragile and pulsating harmony amongst all Earthly and Cosmological relations. Inspired by personal stories of displacement, memories and the relationship between our bodies and land, food and natural resources.