Acerina Amador

Dance, Performance, and Cultural Work

Acerina Amador is a dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands. Her work in contemporary dance and performance has been presented in Europe and China. Alongside performing and creating, she teaches and works in cultural management.

Training and Collaborations

Amador studied at the Tenerife Conservatory of Music and Dance and was selected for PEPCC, a program for choreographic research and creation. Her collaborators have included Deborah Hay, Meg Stuart, João Fiadeiro, Loïc Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh, Miguel Pereira, Mark Tompkins, Nuno Bizarro, Cláudia Dias, Lisa Nelson, Jeremy Nelson, André Lepecki, and Vera Mantero. She holds a master’s degree in Performing Arts and Visual Culture from the University of Alcalá and the Reina Sofía Museum.

Her projects include A propósito do Vermelho, a solo exploring authoritarianism, resistance, transformation, and death; Zoom in & Close up, a duet with Mariana Tengner Barros about memory, desire, and vulnerability; and Placeres extraños, repito, placeres extraños, a solo combining dance and spoken word. Other works listed in her repertoire include Les Stripteases de Aidi Eisidi, The Wonder Years, and Art & Life: Good Work, an adaptation of a solo by Deborah Hay.

Festivals and Cultural Projects

In 2014, Amador organized the international No Borders gathering in Tenerife, with discussions at TEA on identity and borders. Since 2020, she has directed Aarder, an ecofeminist festival she founded. She is also the founder and CEO of Art Friendly, an initiative connecting sustainable, gender-conscious culture with tourism.

Her professional biography lists DanceWeb scholarships in 2009 and 2013, as well as residencies at SKITE in Caen and Interferencias in Mexico. She teaches at festivals, theaters, and cultural institutions in Spain and abroad.