In 2000 this 90S b-girl, capoeirista and TKDka decided to study Contemporary Dance at HID,Belgium.
This year she celebrates <25 years on stage and looks back at her experiences as professionally as dancer, choreograph, mouvement coach and educator.
In 2000 she started touring professional with Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus dancing "Scratching the inner fields".
She went back to continue her higher studies of dance & choreography under artistic guidance from Marie De Corte. She believes education is the key to make a change.
Sandra was born in Belgium in 1982.
Her parents are from Bolivia.
Her father was a doctor, that finished his studies in Belgium and specialised in homeopathy and acupuncture. He raised Sandra playing Martial Arts and music in a studio he build in Edegem in the 80's, where he opened one off the first TKD schools in Belgium.
In 2008 Sandra founded ‘Mama Matrea’ in the heart of Antwerp: as one of belgiums revolutionary pioneer of alternative POC artist platforms, this was a unique divers and safe space. An inclusive multidisciplinary social-artistic project that took the form of of an exotic cocktail bar & Latino world kitchen, where Sandra created vegetarian and vegan recipes for traditional South American food as a form of cultural resistance. Her goal was to create a a broader audience and to fight racism peacefully.
Her aim is to make arts more accessible, to bring people of different cultures together trough art practices.
As an artist she has been experimenting with creative structures to reach this goals.
Sandra got her inspiration travelling, where she learned about herself and different cultures.
Borders are imaginary and everything is energy.
Her independent research on ‘the Relation of dance and music’ from her own culture lead to researching movement in socio-historical context to create a more global world-worldview as she has been brought up with an Andina Como-vision at home.
People are not from countries but live on the same globe is the viewpoint.
The body is a tool to come together, to create peace.
She is passionate about music, pole dance, a healthy lifestyle and tropical-beach detox-workout-travels, quality nightlife and streetculture.
Intangible cultural heritage worldwide stays alive trough our body.
My artistic research of indigenous practices and ancestral knowledge in a contemporary world sees dance as an act of resistance and resilience.
Trough practices we can create safe community-spaces to communicate in mouvement.