Javier (he/him) is a Mexican-Canadian visual performance creator, stage director, movement coach, and translator. He resides in Alberta, where he attended the University of Calgary’s Fine Arts department. While in Calgary, he has developed performance techniques which incorporate Latiné influences in combination with elements that have had a deep impact within his life in Canada; such as ritualistic movement and narrative poetry. As a stage director, he has collaborated with companies such as Theatre Calgary, Vertigo Theatre, Sage Theatre, Downstage, Lunchbox Theatre, The Shakespeare Company, StoryBook, CYPT, Jupiter Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Chromatic, and Calgary Opera. In 2005 he co-founded, along with Black artist Norma Lewis, the visual performance ensemble 8ROJO. With this group, he has devised five interdisciplinary creations, with which he has toured around Canada and as far afield as Mexico, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Taiwan, UK, and Iceland. With 8ROJO, he was awarded the ‘Innovation in Performance’ award at the 2016 STOFF Festival in Stockholm, Sweden; and he was a finalist for a 2021 Off West End Award in London, UK for Outstanding Production. He has translated the texts ‘100 Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ by Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca’s ‘Rural Trilogy’. He translated and adapted the Mexican modern opera 'Anjou: A Tale of Horror' for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.PRODUCER| CANADA
