Karen Palafox

Dancer, producer, and movement researcher dedicated to Somatic Education, Contact Improvisation, and Evolutionary Aquatic Movement. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from UDLAP and is a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist certified by Body-Mind Movement® (Mexico and Brazil), a certified Janzu® Aquatic Therapy facilitator, and currently in ongoing training with AquaSoma®.Her work is focused on the exploration of developmental movement patterns as portals to sensitivity, perception, and proprioception, both in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Her somatic landscape is largely grounded in the practice of improvisation and CI, through which she investigates how movement and contact open sensomotor pathways for the creation of relational ecosystems, where the soma is inhabited as a living territory, revealing more embodied forms of presence.Since 2011, she has organized and participated in numerous gatherings, workshops, and events related to dance, improvisation, Contact Improvisation, and Somatic Education in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, New Zealand, the United States, and Ecuador.