Stephanie Lee began her studies at the Escuela Nacional de Danza del INAC, later continuing at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Panamá, and finally at the Instituto Alicia Alonso de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.
Professionally, she has danced under the direction of various groups and choreographers at both national and international levels. Her creations have been presented at major dance festivals in Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.
She is a member of the artists and creators network of Fundación Espacio Creativo (FEC) and Wa.taá. Her works have received several national and international awards, including Descalza – Nuestros Creadores (2014), La Casa – Iberescena (2020), Cartografía del Olvido – a creation grant supported by Fundación PRISMA and Gramo Danse (2022), and El Silencio es el más fuerte de los Sonidos – COCO Danza (2023).
She currently collaborates with the collective La Vaina Ambiental and with various independent multidisciplinary artists, while also directing her own dance studio, Arte Ballet Studio.
Professionally, she has danced under the direction of various groups and choreographers at both national and international levels. Her creations have been presented at major dance festivals in Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.
She is a member of the artists and creators network of Fundación Espacio Creativo (FEC) and Wa.taá. Her works have received several national and international awards, including Descalza – Nuestros Creadores (2014), La Casa – Iberescena (2020), Cartografía del Olvido – a creation grant supported by Fundación PRISMA and Gramo Danse (2022), and El Silencio es el más fuerte de los Sonidos – COCO Danza (2023).
She currently collaborates with the collective La Vaina Ambiental and with various independent multidisciplinary artists, while also directing her own dance studio, Arte Ballet Studio.
Cartografía del olvido
Those of us who were are not the ones who are here today. Who and who are we? Are we really what we want to be or what they told us we were?
Those that are breeze, ether and silence. Muffled screams in a dark room.
How do you deal with memory loss? Where the path to oblivion begins, that first step into the jungle that devours everything.
How do I manifest something so strong but that I don’t even remember and re-imagine it?
A blurred memory, like a perfume that is lost on me, fragile and I struggle to follow its trail. It’s like trying to remember the face of someone I saw in a dream. I have the generals but not the details and the more I struggle the more I lose myself in the general. How do you look for something that feels close and you don’t have?
As I do not forget those who are no longer a body, those who forgot their names, those who were swallowed by the earth and transformed into a murmur that tells me of a time that I have not lived, but I remember.
Those that are breeze, ether and silence. Muffled screams in a dark room.
How do you deal with memory loss? Where the path to oblivion begins, that first step into the jungle that devours everything.
How do I manifest something so strong but that I don’t even remember and re-imagine it?
A blurred memory, like a perfume that is lost on me, fragile and I struggle to follow its trail. It’s like trying to remember the face of someone I saw in a dream. I have the generals but not the details and the more I struggle the more I lose myself in the general. How do you look for something that feels close and you don’t have?
As I do not forget those who are no longer a body, those who forgot their names, those who were swallowed by the earth and transformed into a murmur that tells me of a time that I have not lived, but I remember.
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Panamá
Direction
Carlos Quintero
Choreography
Stephanie Lee
Cast
Milko Delgado, Stephanie Lee
Musical Composition
La Vaina Ambiental
Musicians
Jason Berger, Carlos Quiros
Audiovisual
Hernán Polanco, Cine Animal\
In addition to the performance, the artist facilitated a masterclass for festival participants.