Josefina Zuain (AR)

is a dancer, writer, and art historian. She has studied modern techniques (Humphrey Technique), composition, and improvisation through somatic techniques (Feldenkrais, Eutony), stretching, and ballet for biomechanics (Gurquel Technique), among others. She has trained in Twerk and Sexy Style, Bounce, and Heels techniques in Madrid, Salamanca, Rome, and other cities. She coordinates writing workshops for artists and works as a consultant on projects related to art and related fields. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Buenos Aires and in 2019 successfully completed her master’s degree in advanced studies in Art History at the University of Salamanca. She is currently developing her doctoral research at the University of Salamanca, examining historical dance documents from the medieval era alongside moral judgments and discourses that criticize Twerk. Her research explores the arguments used to justify the persecution of certain ways of dancing. She is the editorial director and creator of 2da En Papel Editora, a publishing house specializing in the dissemination, creation and distribution of content related to dance. In 2009, she created cuadernosdedanza.com.ar ISSN 22508708, a virtual platform that stores 14 years of writing about, on and from dance in archive format. @segundaenpapel, @josefina.zuain