As a contemporary dancer and performance artist, Paulina León (Panamá, 1998) uses movement as a tool of observation. Across multidisciplinary projects, she continues her efforts to attune a body permeable to its environment, exploring the relationship and relevance between physical and emotional actions in space—how they register, linger, dissolve, or become archive.
For León, movement is both method and language: a way to think, to record, to disturb. Each project begins with an effort to perceive, to endure, and to make a body open enough for what it cannot fully hold. Her work resists resolution, dwelling instead in the oscillation between states—the body as a site of rehearsal, exposure, and transformation.
León holds a BFA in Preservation Design [with a specialization in intangible culture] from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She was formerly a dancer and artistic coordinator at COCO Contemporary Dance Company of Panama and served as assistant to the director at DiabloRosso Gallery. Now based in Madrid, she develops her practice independently and in collaboration, with openness to projects that engage performance across art, film, fashion, and music.
CV / Selected works upon request
Photo x Daniel Valdés, 2024