About the piece

“And in spite of everything, continue.”

The resilience of the body—both physical and emotional.
The weight of memory, the act of letting go, and the interconnection of individual stories within a collective context are the starting points for this duet.
Is letting go an act of resistance?

About the company

ATERNO is a multidisciplinary artistic collective founded in 2022 by innovative choreographer César Brodermann.

It was born from the need to create bridges between different artistic disciplines, using the body as the main engine to reimagine a space where boundaries are not obstacles but opportunities for coexistence, creation, and collaboration.

They are recipients of the Guillermo Arriaga National Dance Award 2023, the FONCA Grant, and the EFI ARTES grant to create and produce their large-format works REGRESO and TRASLADO PERMANENTE.
ATERNO has presented works in various national and international festivals such as Festival Lila López, Festival José Limón, Escena Movida Arica, among others.

The company’s mission is to “move mountains through the body.” They seek to challenge any logical structure within dance, developing methods that do not have a defined endpoint, but rather an infinite, constant reverberation that extends from the individual to the collective.

ATERNO is inspired by expansion, openness, and infinity. It was born from the desire to foster encounters of dialogue and bodily knowledge through multidisciplinary art.

Their purpose is to break boundaries through movement, challenging conventions, and exploring new forms of artistic expression.

About the choreographer

Originally from Mexico City, César is a multidisciplinary artist, contemporary dancer, choreographer, photographer, artistic director, and founder of ATERNO.

His work combines movement, performance, photography, and film, exploring the unlimited potential of the human being and his/her connection to evarth. The search for freedom, identity, distance, and the notion of the self are ideas César studies constantly, integrating them into his daily artistic practice.

From 2014 to 2018, César lived in New York, graduating with honors from the Contemporary and Classical Dance Certificate Program at Peridance Capezio Center. During his time in New York, he worked with a variety of artists and companies, including Gallim Dance by Andrea Miller.

From 2018 to 2022, he lived in Tel Aviv, where he became the first Mexican to work with one of the most internationally renowned dance companies, Batsheva Dance Company – The Batsheva Ensemble, performing repertoire by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Noa Zuk, Bobbi Jene & Or Schraiber. Brodermann developed five creative processes within the Batsheva Dancers Create program. César is the only Mexican teacher certified in GAGA (the movement language created by Ohad Naharin).

His choreographic work has been presented at international festivals such as Festival Lila López in San Luis Potosí, FIDCDMX in Mexico City at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, INSITU Dance Festival in New York, New Blue Dance Festival in Toronto, and he has presented his creation BORDERLINE at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.

how to climb a mountain, in collaboration with Guy Davidson and live music by Ariel Meriash, is his longest durational performance to date, lasting 8 hours, and was presented at the CCA in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In 2023, he received the FONCA Grant for Cultural Projects and Co-investments for his multidisciplinary stage proposal NINGÚN LUGAR A DONDE IR (No Place to Go).

He is the winner of the 2023 Guillermo Arriaga National Dance Award with his multidisciplinary stage proposal El Concreto es Eterno, in collaboration with Santiago Sánchez.

In August 2024, he premiered Traslado Permanente, recipient of the EFI ARTES 2023 fiscal stimulus, at the MUAC Esplanade in collaboration with DANZA UNAM.

His most recent large-format creation, REGRESO, received the EFI ARTES 2024 fiscal stimulus and premiered at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris in July, 2025.

He currently resides in Mexico City, continuously creating and presenting his work internationally, and building bridges for others to cross, surpassing limits and borders.