Otros Rostros

About Diana Lopez Soto

My culture, heritage and relationship to Earth inform my projcess and artistic practice. I weave stories, create movement experiences, hold spaces for exploration and work with ritual and ceremony. I work independently and in collaboration with other multi-disciplinary artists in site-specific work, artistic residencies, exhibitions, and laboratories.

Additional Projects

Nomada

A solo performance that brings together contemporary indigenous dance, aerial dance and installation art.

Terminal

Speaks of the journey of grieving, the process of waiting and the spaces in between.

Enlazadas

Explores peformance as an act of reciprocity with space, with living organisms and the energies in which the process takes place.

Otros Rostros

A choreographic exploration of movement and performance with Mexican masks, heels and folklore.

Ancestros

Initiates as a crucial response to the intrinsically connected relationships between our bodies, soil systems and rocks.

Nudos

Invites us to embody the material and the depth of our relationships.

Otros Rostros

Otros Rostros is a contemporary Indigenous dance and vertical performance work that explores mask, movement, and storytelling as portals to the spirit world and as a means of engaging with power structures, heroism, and enduring archetypes of Mexican folklore. Within Mexican mask-making traditions and stories, they are often understood to carry a presence of their own, inviting the wearer to step beyond the self and embody the spirit, memory, and force of another being. Through this encounter, the mask becomes a living vessel of transformation.

Toronto | Uxbridge

But what happens when the identities and worlds we inhabit begin to fracture? When the spirit we invoke unsettles the roles we have been taught to embody, challenges the structures we have revered, or reveals tensions between who we are and who we are becoming? Otros Rostros offers a window to this world, where identities unravel and adapt, and where the body becomes a meeting place for ancestral presence, personal transformation, and imagined futures.