NAIA URRESTI

DANCER
CHOREOGRAPHER

NEXT PERFORMANCES

BERLIN - May 22nd and 23rd 2026
MADRID - June 12th, 13th and 14th 2026

Naia Urresti is a Venezuelan queer and neurodivergent dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. From childhood, she began her exploration of the body and the performing arts through gymnastics and theater, training as an actress at the T.E.T. Center for Artistic Creation and participating in various theater workshops. She has worked as an actress on diverse professional projects with established companies such as Skena and Amentia Teatro. She also began her educational work as a facilitator for student theater workshops with the Skena group. Later, she continued her training in contemporary dance, Flying Low and Passing Through, ballet, improvisation, and Contact Improvisation at various institutions in Caracas, including the Taller Experimental de Danza Pisorrojo, the Taller de Danza de Caracas, and UNEARTE, with teachers such as Susan Bello, Evelyn Pérez, Cristina Gallardo, Inés Rojas, and Carlos Penso. Having danced professionally with various Venezuelan dance companies such as Pisorrojo, Neodanza, Sieteocho, and Proyecto Movimiento, she continued her career in Europe, joining the EBB Junior Company and participating in workshops and classes to further her training. In Germany, she began her research as a choreographer, initially developing solo works (Buscando, 1990, Penélope, and Crescent) and later group pieces (E, Mis-placed). She presented her projects in various venues in Berlin and became a regular artist at Brotfabrik, Tanztangente, and Bande à Part. She also participated in the Miradas al Cuerpo Festival at the Teatro Lagrada in Madrid in 2024 and 2025. In 2025, together with Laura DeAngelis, she founded the collective Boneless Light, which produced the monographic festival Flüchterkörper, Cuerpos en Fuga, in Bogotá, Colombia, in October 2025.

CHOREOGRAPHIC PROJECTS

MIS-PLACED

Mis-Placed emerges from personal experiences of non-belonging—as an undiagnosed neurodivergent child, a queer woman, and an immigrant—to investigate how these realities imprint themselves on the body. Drawing from the unique movement qualities of each performer, the piece examines what sets us apart from the group: how a body that doesn’t belong occupies, crosses, and relates to space. Through gestures, repetition, and contrasting textures, the dancers weave and unweave themselves without achieving cohesion, exposing the ongoing struggle to find one’s place in a world where one is not part of the majority and lacks a supportive community.


Choreography by Naia Urresti.
Performance by Tea Nadir, Laura DeAngelis, Naia Urresti (and Dionel Pire).
Original Music by Nuwanlis.
Photos by Johannes Schuchardt.

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CHAOS, IN THIS ORDER

Tells the story of three late-identified queer neurodivergent artists exploring their ever-changing sense of identity and the masks they use to belong. It questions our sense of perception: below the layers of forced conformity, who are they really? The play underlines the lack of spaces in which to feel truly safe and the thin thread that binds us all to a world dictating what we are granted or denied. Performed in Ausland Berlin as a part of the residency All the Rivers.

Music and glass Installations by Samantha Tiussi
Paints and Poems by Coco Stoppelli
Choreography and Dance by Naia Urresti
Dramaturgy and Direction by Naia Urresti, Samantha Tiussi, Coco Stoppelli
Photos by Ausland Berlin

CRESCENT

This piece explores the anger born from growing up as women under constant surveillance—judged, desired, constrained, and blamed. It delves into the contradictions surrounding female sexuality, where empowerment and shame coexist, and where women are valued as objects of desire yet punished for expressing it. Through movement, the work navigates the internalized fear, guilt, and self-suppression that shape our identities, revealing the quiet violence that molds us. It is a journey into the body’s stored rage, a reclaiming of power through confronting the places where it lives.


Choreography and Performance by Naia Urresti.
Original Music by La Infanta de Bernardino.
Photos by Laura DeAngelis and Steffen Wollmann.

PENELOPE

Choreography and Performance by Naia Urresti.
Music By La Infanta de Bernardino.
Photos by Luca Fiorella, Anna Wider and Henryk Weiffenbach.

1990

Choreography and Performance by Naia Urresti.
Music By La Infanta de Bernardino.

BUSCANDO

There was a locust whose dream was to become a mammal. She went to the best surgeons in the world and they told her that it was possible, but they would have to remove the wings. She accepted, and she became very famous as a complicated medical case, everybody was taking pictures of her and admiring this science achievement. And she was happy. But sometimes, when she was alone looking at the summer nights, she missed to fly.


Choreography, Direction and Performance by Naia Urresti.
Music By La Infanta de Bernardino.
Video by Rolando González.

WORK AS A DANCER

VORÜBERGEHENDE LÖSUNGEN UM DAS VERLORENE ZU BENENNEN

"Provisional solutions to name the irrecoverable", is a performative exploration on the fragility that inhabits the body after a forced displacement. Movement and language are territories of adaptation, marked by the fatigue of relearning new ways of inhabiting the world and reconstructing an identity in constant tension. Between gestures, memories and fragmented languages, the work asks how to re-signify what has been lost and how to inhabit what remains of it.


A performance by J. René Guerra 
Interpreted by Naia Urresti
Photos by Anna Wider

IF IT WERE EASY, YOUR GRANDFATHER WOULD DO IT

A trio performance created parallel to the accompanying graphic cartoon strip by illustrator Marine Brossard. The work amalgamates true stories and primary source anecdotes from the dancers about their grandmothers and heritage. The piece celebrates heritage and offers a soft and humanised take on a population often overlooked or pushed to the corners by society, with a sprinkle of comedy. 


Choreographed and Directed by Laura DeAngelis
Performance by Naia Urresti, Tea Nadir and Dionel Pire/Laura DeAngelis
Illustrated by Marine Brossard 
Music by Atmospheric Conditions
Photos by Laura DeAngelis

EBB JUNIOR COMPANY

PROYECTO MOVIMIENTO

SIETEOCHO

NEODANZA

PISORROJO

naiabm13@gmail.com