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Reinier Badilla Martínez

Reinier studied at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria, graduating in 2018. Currently, he is a Master's degree student in Movement Research at Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz. He started his dance education at the National University (UNA) in Costa Rica. He learned lighting design with Álvaro Piedra and Emilio Aguilar during his dance studies. Prior to this, he studied violin in the precollege program at UNA, in the class of Patricia González Rodríguez.

Since 2014 he is based in Salzburg and has worked in productions with Salzburg Festspiele, Bad Hall Stadttheater, Stiftung Mozarteum, Mozarteum University, Colectivo El Cuerpo Habla and choreographers Jorge Sánchez, Michikazu Matsune and Anastasia Valsamaki. He has taught workshops at Compañía CCDUNA, Anton Bruckner Universität, Festival Paréntesis UCR, ImPulsTanz Public Moves, Tanzhafen Festival, Contemporary Prague, MST Tyumen, Hábitat Oaxaca, Marafiki Festival Tanzania, among others.

In 2021, he founded the company La Intempestiva, alongside the Slovak dancer Simona Štangová; premiering so far 4 original pieces and 3 commissions. He is Artistic Director of the company alongside the Italian choreographer Chiara Görig, with whom he creates and teaches closely.As director, he is also curator of the program LofTanz, which the company coproduces with RedSapata Linz. He has worked as lighting designer for dance since 2016. Their work is supported by Stadt Salzburg, Land Salzburg, Land Oberösterreich and BMEIA.

He has performed, taught and created in Austria, Germany, Czechia, France, Malta, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Mali, Kenya, Tanzania and both European and Siberian Russia.

Reinier Martínez Badilla

San José, Costa Rica • 1990

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