INSÉKTA is a Venezuelan/Peruvian director, choreographer, and performer based in Chicago, IL. With a background shaped by migration and cultural multiplicity, they embrace a hyper-hyphenated identity that informs both their life and art-making.

Their body of work spans immersive dance-theater, interdisciplinary performance, film, and socially engaged practices. INSÉKTA is the co-founder and co-host of FLÁ Podcast (@fla.podcast), an audiovisual series exploring Latin American futurism across artistic, philosophical, and emotional dimensions.

They are the creator of MATADORA, a modular dance-theater myth addressing Latinx femme rage and transformation; DEMBOW, a rhythm-driven pop-up class and ritual rooted in Latin American social dances; Sábanas, a dance film exploring sensuality, confinement, and embodiment; and iORGAN, an audiovisual performance unpacking the divide between body and constructed self.

INSÉKTA’s work has been featured at SPACES Gallery (Cleveland), Blow Up Film Festival (Chicago), Experimental Forum (NYC), and the Festival de Artes Escénicas (FAE) in Lima, Peru. They are a recipient of the Albert P. Weisman Award, and have worked with institutions such as Teatro La Plaza (Peru) and the Dance/USA Conference.

I create to rupture silence. To give form to what’s been repressed in the body, in culture, in memory.

As INSÉKTA, I work across choreography, direction, and performance to build immersive, emotionally charged worlds that confront the fragmentation of identity and the weight of suppressed Latinx femme experiences. My work is driven by the belief that movement holds the truths we don’t know how to name—and that through rhythm, repetition, and ritual, we can reclaim parts of ourselves that have been hidden, distorted, or erased.

My practice lives at the intersections of Latin American futurism, mythology, body horror, and sensuality. I pull from lived migration, digital saturation, ancestral memory, and emotional inheritance to create spaces where fragmented selves are not just seen—they are expanded. I do not replicate Latin traditions. I remix them to reveal new timelines, new fictions, and new ways of being.

Works like MATADORA, DEMBOW, and Sábanas investigate how we express rage, desire, dissociation, and connection through the body—especially in systems that teach us to hold back. These are not just performances. They are sensorial environments where dance becomes a language of exorcism, protest, and imagination.

I believe in the hyper-hyphenated self—in identities that don’t ask for permission to shift shape. My work builds from that belief. It doesn’t ask to be understood. It asks to be felt.

Awards & Honors

• Albert P. Weisman Award – Columbia College Chicago, 2018

• Honorable Mention, iORGAN – Experimental Forum, New York City, 2020

• Official Selection, iORGAN – Blow Up Film Festival, Chicago, 2020

• Finalist, Sábanas – Festival de Artes Escénicas (FAE), Lima, Peru, 2021

Exhibitions & Screenings

• Sábanas – SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2021

• iORGAN – Experimental Forum, NYC, 2020

• iORGAN – Blow Up Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2020

Institutional Collaborations

• Teatro La Plaza – Director, FRONDOSO (Lima, Peru)

• ZINFORMA – Director, iORGAN

• Dance/USA Conference – Artist and presenter, 2025

• Synapse Arts – Co-Director of Professional Presentations & Marketing (Ongoing)

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