Daniela Galaviz is a multidisciplinary, creative, performer, facilitator, and promoter of the arts.

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Originally from Mexico (Cancún and Querétaro), she began her artistic career by enrolling in the arts-focused high school CEDART “Ignacio Mariano de las Casas” an educational center part of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature of Mexico (INBAL). This place undoubtedly marked her way of seeing the world and working with the arts. When she finished, she continued her studies at the Autonomous University of Querétaro (UAQ), pursuing a degree in Performing Arts. Along with her studies, another important experience that defined her as an artist was volunteering as a Hospital Clown for the non profit organization "Risaterapia", in which she was active for 4 years.

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After graduating from university, she dedicated herself to doing theater with the non-profit / theatre company "La Otra Banda" (Now La Otra Bandita) located in the Tepetate neighborhood, in Querétaro, Mexico where she worked creating drama performances for theatre and for the street.

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She was co-creator and administrator of the Teatropolis cultural space (2017-2020) in the historic center of the city of Querétaro.

At the same time, she worked as a teacher in different educational institutions teaching Visual Arts and Drama to young people.

 

It was through this experience that her interest in facilitating educational and community spaces was born. This led her to study a Master's Degree in Educational Technology at ITESM and later a postgraduate degree in Arts Education and Community Engagement at Centennial College located in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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She currently resides and works in the city of Toronto, coordinating and facilitating community art workshops for newcomers and refugees. She is passionate about the power that the arts have and the joy of creating in our personal day to day lives and what creating with other people does to our human relationships. She believes that art is for everyone to enjoy fully, not just for professional artists.

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A THANK YOU TO: 

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I thank and honor the teachers who have marked me the most in my artistic path (with some of them I have had the opportunity to share more time than with others):

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Gustavo Silva - Theater

Veronica Carranco - Theater

Jose Maria Cabrera - Philosophy/ Aesthetics

Alejandro Franco - Dance / Theater

Javier Rivas Aranda - Stage Makeup / Mask creation

Ricardo Leal - Pantomime

Rosa Maria Meade - Watercolor

Caroline Dream - Clown

Darina Robles - Clown

Guru Moumita Gosh - Odissi Dance

Ruy Nieves - Stage combat, Clown, Puppets, Odissi Dance, Theater.

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And to my many many dance teachers that I had throughout my life in many academies when I was a young person.