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Omar Carrum
Mexican Dancer, choreographer teacher and video maker, He joined DELFOS danza contemporánea as a founding member from 1993 to 2017. He  has received The National Dance Award as performer and Choreographer eight grants by FONCA (National and State Funds for Culture and Arts in Mexico) and the GUGGENHEIM fellowship in 2009. His short film Fifth Wall, was selected by the Short Film Corner in CANNES (2013). In 1998 he co-founded, with Claudia Lavista and Victor Ruiz, EPDM (Profesional Dance School of Mazatlán), and became the Academic Director from 2007 until 2017. He started an exchange program with the Duncan Center in Prague and in 2007 created the project  HABITAT, where he lead every year a team of artists to teach dance to 300 children in 4 poor neighborhoods in Mazatlan.  In 2012 he developed CONTINUUM as an integral system for training and in 2014 creates the Teachers NET to broaden the research and possibilities of the system  with annual pedagogical encounters.

He has been a featured performer in over 90 works of dance, theater, and opera, working with an international roster of choreographers performing in some of the world’s most prestigious theaters and festivals for dance.  As a choreographer he has created over 55 works for companies and profesional schools in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, USA, Czech Republic and Panama. In 2016 consolidates ESCorporart & WORLDROBED to continue his research with creative and pedagogical residencies worldwide.

Currently he is working as a guest artist with the Spanish company La Intrusa directed by Virgina García & Damián Muñoz; has the Mexican grant as Scene Creator with trajectory from FONCA 2018 - 2020, and is doing a WORLDROBED residency in Prague teaching at the Duncan Center Konservator.

More at omar-carrum.com