COCO


COCO is a Panamanian contemporary dance company that develops an ongoing platform for artistic training, creation, and performance, with a strong focus on arts education and social impact.

Its works have represented Panama at international festivals in New York, Belgium, Holland, and Spain. The company has received support from Iberescena, BID Lab, and Panama’s Ministry of Culture, in addition to receiving multiple Premios Escena awards.

Since 2025, COCO has carried out its activities at Ciudad de las Artes through an invitation from the Ministry of Culture, further consolidating its presence within Panama’s contemporary dance landscape.

Through creation, education, and artistic exchange, COCO continues to foster spaces where contemporary dance critically engages with social realities while remaining accessible to diverse audiences.


VERANERA


VERANERA is a contemporary dance piece that unfolds as a sensorial celebration of movement rooted in heat, everyday rhythms, and embodied presence. Inspired by the atmosphere of summer, the work explores how the body responds to climate, space, and collective experience, transforming the ordinary into poetic expression.

Through a choreographic language that blurs the boundary between everyday gesture and stage form, VERANERA invites audiences to experience dance as a living and organic force emerging from the environment, shared rhythms, and the materiality of the body.

The piece proposes a visceral encounter with movement, where physicality becomes both an expressive instrument and a territory for sensory discovery. VERANERA celebrates the body’s ability to inhabit and reinvent the familiar, weaving together presence, resilience, and celebration within a single artistic gesture.


Tech Rider


Country
Panamá
Direction & Choreography
Marlyn Attie
Production & Assistant Direction
Ida María
Set Design
Mansa Furniture
Music Editing
Jonathan Valdivieso
Performers
Ana Gabriela García, Adrián Morales, Carolina Figueiredo, Claudia Hamilton, Boris Ángel, Jaime Ruiz, Josías Díaz, Nelly Mosquera, Stephanie Lee
Percussion
Eric Blanquicet, Camilo Santos, Jonathan Valdivieso
Dramaturgical Assistance
Artuto Wongs

In addition to its performance, the company facilitated a masterclass for festival participants.





Gris


Gris (Grey) emerges from the longing to recover what is disappearing: grey zones where dialogue, ambiguity, and coexistence can still unfold. In a world shaped by algorithms and polarized belief systems, the work searches for spaces capable of resisting certainty and reopening the possibility of meeting one another in the in-between.

The piece exposes the invisible choreographies of the digital world—the ways systems shape emotion, and pull us toward reaction rather than reflection. Through movement, Gris (Grey) proposes a form of resistance: a reconnection with the body’s capacity to feel, listen, and sustain contradiction.

The performers navigate shifting emotional landscapes where tension, fragility, proximity, and disconnection coexist. Bodies collide, hesitate, support, and drift apart, reflecting the complexity of contemporary human interaction in increasingly fragmented social environments.

Ultimately, Gris (Grey) is an act of proximity—an attempt to move once again toward complexity, nuance, and the fragile art of coexistence.


Tech Rider


Country
Panamá
Direction & Choreography
Marlyn Attie
Original Music
Jonathan Valdivieso
Performers
Anabel Barrote, Ida Maria, Koen Eye, Adrian Morales, Stephanie Lee
Lighting Design
Ben Rawson


In addition to its performance, the company facilitated a masterclass for festival participants.