Coco Villarreal
Coco Villarreal
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Coco Villarreal was born in Mexico City. There, he studied Opera singing in the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and Literature and Theater in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
He has experienced theater and music professional work since the age of 16 collaborating in several proposals from opera to contemporary dance and theater. He had work for international theater and dance companies such as Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes (Mexico), Vangeline Theater (USA), De Nuit Comme De tour (Switzerland), Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitan (Colombia), Compañía Patricia Guerrero (Spain).
Coco has directed IX-Butoh Ritual Dance and Theater (originally called Teatro Prieto) since 2009. Performing, directing and teaching in several venues and festivals in Mexico, Colombia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Maroc, Indonesia, Honduras and Spain.
As a teacher Coco guided a few hundreds of students coming from different cultures and backgrounds. His goal is to reconnect our daily lives with the human essence of freedom, creativity, expression and healing through our voice and body movement.
He has been dancing butoh since the age of 19 learning by the hand of Diego Piñón, director of Body Ritual Movement who was disciple of Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno for
many years in Japan. Coco also studied with Akira Kassai, Natsue Nakajima, Ken Mai, Yuko Kaseki among others. though his work is inspired by the years of contact and training with Diego combined with Martial Arts, Yoga, body training, singing and Meditation.
He earned the prize “Best scenic proposal” in 2003 during the XI National Universitary Theater Festival in Mexico.
This will be Coco's second presence at Theater Madrasa.
He has experienced theater and music professional work since the age of 16 collaborating in several proposals from opera to contemporary dance and theater. He had work for international theater and dance companies such as Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes (Mexico), Vangeline Theater (USA), De Nuit Comme De tour (Switzerland), Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitan (Colombia), Compañía Patricia Guerrero (Spain).
Coco has directed IX-Butoh Ritual Dance and Theater (originally called Teatro Prieto) since 2009. Performing, directing and teaching in several venues and festivals in Mexico, Colombia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Maroc, Indonesia, Honduras and Spain.
As a teacher Coco guided a few hundreds of students coming from different cultures and backgrounds. His goal is to reconnect our daily lives with the human essence of freedom, creativity, expression and healing through our voice and body movement.
He has been dancing butoh since the age of 19 learning by the hand of Diego Piñón, director of Body Ritual Movement who was disciple of Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno for
many years in Japan. Coco also studied with Akira Kassai, Natsue Nakajima, Ken Mai, Yuko Kaseki among others. though his work is inspired by the years of contact and training with Diego combined with Martial Arts, Yoga, body training, singing and Meditation.
He earned the prize “Best scenic proposal” in 2003 during the XI National Universitary Theater Festival in Mexico.
This will be Coco's second presence at Theater Madrasa.