Paula Hofmann

Born in Valdivia, southern Chile. At the age of 19, with the engine of exploring the performing arts, she studied Acting at the Duoc UC Professional Institute. The training of the institute was nourished by different disciplines, following an attraction towards somatic research in movement, theater, physical theater, music and contemporary dance.

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In the approach to contemporary dance she has cooperated with artists such as Astrid Boons (Belgium), Contact and improvisation with Kirstie Simson (UK), Renata Keller (Switzerland), and contemporary dance with Linda Lehovec (USA). She has trained other dance practices and rituals with the connection of the body as a channel of deep and sensitive spaces, which she later developed in greater depth with the Butoh Dance with Eugenia Vargas (Mexico), Makiko Tominaga (Japan), and Francisca Tuñon (Chile).

Her first tour as an actress was at Binghamton University (New York, USA. UU) in 2013. That same year she joined the theater company CUERPOLÍMITE, with whom he worked deeply on physical work for 5 years with the play BUNKER, AMANS participating in different international festivals. In 2015 she began her work with José Luis Vidal (Chile) and company. Today she is part of the Board of Directors of the Centro Manna Foundation. She is also part of the Colectivo Artes vivas Comunidad Escénica, as assistant director in the Ensemble Company, directed by Alan Ibañez. She also carries out her first cooperations with Oxymoro Company.