Carlos Adrian

My motivation to start studding dance was to heal myself in a mystical way.  I initiated studying in an independent school led by Wilson Pico.  He is an Ecuadorian dance master with more than 50 years of experience. He became my dance mentor since then. At the beginning my exploration was superficial.  My body was loaded with preconceived ideas about beauty, morality, rhythm, motion, expectations, etc. We explored through our body-mind to break those concepts, to find honesty in our work.  As years pass by, I am developing tools for self-training which gives me the opportunity to keep on exploring no matter the conditions.

My life experience during this last decade has been about searching in the secret passages of the soul for who I am.  Where do I come from? What are my roots? I’ve joined ancestral traditions practiced by indigenous communities on Ecuador’s north mountains, impregnating myself with their dances and colorful music.

I constantly work leading myself to the unknown, the uncertainty. I Jump off my comfort zone to leave the old self behind and re-create myself.  The journey has just started and dance is the axis around which all my life’s adventure turns.