Sara Gómez
(México)
Choreographer and artist researcher.
Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Elisa Acuña Grant 2025).
EDUCATION. Doctorate Cum Laude in Philosophy and Theory of the Arts at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (UAB). Master in Artistic Research and Design at EINA, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona (UAB). Bachelor in Choreography at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance INBA (Mexico). BFA at the National School of Painting Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda”, INBA (México).
RESEARCHER. She develops her production within the framework of artistic research, studies on choreography and politics.
From 2017 to 2020, she was a member of the SGR-1312 GRETA- Research Group on Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, working into the projects MINECO - FFI2012-32614: "Aesthetic experience and artistic research: cognitive aspects of contemporary art", and MINECO FFI2015-64138-P - “The Generation of Knowledge in Artistic Research”. Senior researcher: Gerard Villar.
She is a member of Descentradxs, a Dance Research Network, which brings together researchers from all over the world.
She created, in 2017, Quiasmo, an editorial project on dance and contemporary thought. In 2018 and 2019 she designed the Conference on Political Choreography within the framework of the Doctorate in Philosophy (UAB) and GRETA Group, held in collaboration (2018) and co-production (2019) with La Caldera les Corts, Center de Creació de Dansa de Barçelona.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE. Her recent artistic project, named Choreographic Utterances, is been presented
During 2025 at the
IV Coloquio de Internacional de Investigación y Prácticas Artísticas at Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City)
OPEN STUDIO at BECA COBERTIZO 2025, Mexico.
During 2024, at the
I Congreso de Investigación, Prácticas Artísticas y Cultura Visual, at Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, Spain (UCLM);
SAR FORUM 2024 (online version). Tilburg, Netherlands. With the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Language-based Artistic Research.
During 2023, at
Convocation II of the SIG for Language-based Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna
VIII Art of Research exhibition, Aalto University, Finland.
During 2022, at
Research Academy: Performative Interventions at the Zurich Academy of the Arts. Switzerland.
INPrescindibles #49 at La Poderosa, Creation Center in Barcelona, Spain
Procesos en Diálogo residency at La Mecedora, at the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico (CCEMX).
Other recent artistic projects are
.Actions to Read presented at ADiE, Artistic Doctorates in Europe, at Middlesex University of London (2019).
The choreographic gesture in Picasso, choreographic action in collaboration with Laura Vilar and Pierre Faure, at Picasso Museum of Barcelona (2017).
Some of her past performative lectures are: Artistic Research at the Institute of Performing Arts, University of Buenos Aires (2021) and Multilogos Collective Digital Platform (2022); Choreography, apparatus, and politics, for the Doctoral Thesis Dissertation (2020), at the UAB; Signs-gesture, at the INDISCIPLINES Congress of Artistic Research at UB, EINA, ESMUC-Barcelona (2019).
She has been a performing dancer in some companies in Mexico (such as Ballet Hidalguense, UAEH Ballet Company, Takla Makan dance-theater).
She has done theatrical lighting designs for some dance companies such as CEPRODAC-Mexico and L'espace, Compagnia di danza, Italy (at the Teatro de la Danza, Mexico; Foro experimental Black Box-Mexico; Teatro Mediterraneo Occupato, Palermo).
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
She has the Elisa Acuña Grant for Postdoctoral Researchers 2025 (FAD-UNAM).
She had the FONCA-CONACYT scholarship for studies abroad, from 2018 to 2020. (PhD studies)
During 2025:
BECA COBERTIZO - Selected resident artist
During 2023:
Guest Artist for the Convocation II, hosted by the Society of Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research, at University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.
During 2022, she was:
Guest artist for the Research Academy on Performative Intervention, at the Zurich University of Arts, with Florian Malzacher and Dana Yahalomi, advisers.
Resident artist of the INPrescindibles #49, residency program of La Poderosa, Dance Creation Center, at Barcelona, Spain.
Resident artist at Panoramas/People/Processes in Dialogue, residency of La Mecedora, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico.
PUBLICATIONS. Her latest publications are
2025. Eros, arte e investigación. En J. I. Vallejos e I. Jiménez (Eds). Descentrar la investigación en danza. Miño y Dávila. pp. 195-210.
2025. Del eros y los objetos. En. I. Saz. (Ed.). Investigaciónen Prácticas Escénicas y Cultura Visual, I Congreso Internacional ARTEA, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, pp. 117-126.
2025. El trabajo especulativo de la investigación artística. In Journal of Artistic Research 36. DOI: 10.22501/jar.3820122
2024. When Eros Drives Artistic Research, Research in Arts and Education, 2024(1), 234–243. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142531.
2023. Sara Gómez, in Practices Sharing II, by Emma Cocker, 2023. www.researchcatalogue.net
TEACHING. She was a Professor of the Master's Program in Dance Research (MID) at the National Center for Dance Research (CENIDID) José Limón, INBA, Mexico. (2022-2025). Guess professor of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at CENART, Mexico (2021-2025). Guess professor of the Master in Artistic Research at EINA, Barcelona and Area Danza (2019 & 2021). She was a professor of the Online Education Program at the Nacional Center of the Arts, Mexico (2015).