Nefertiti Charlene Altan is. afro-indigenous. queer. feminist. activist. artista do corpo. percussionist. cultural producer. curator. educator. interpreter. Of Guatemalan roots raised in the Bay Area, California living in Salvador, Bahia since 2013, completing the technical certification program in dance from the Fundação Cultural da Bahia in 2016. She has spent the last 15 years researching, participating in, sharing and creating both contemporary and folk music and performance work with groups and artists from the USA, Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil. She is a founding artist/producer/curator of Deslimites Mediações Artísticas, a collective that bridges contemporary dance with other mediums in non-conventional spaces within a feminist & anti-racist framework, opening the independent cultural space Casa Rosada in 2018. She is an alárìnjó (Yoruba for “one who dances and sings while walking) in the first-ever original Brazilian musical theatre installation piece in Yoruba, Diego Pinheiro’s QUASEILHAS & is part of the all-female Afro-Brazilian atabaque percussion group Tamborá Ayó with Mestra Monica Millet.
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