Bernardo
San Rafael
I’m a dance performance artist. Born in Costa Rica, raised in Germany. I dance with swans, shopping bags, teddies, in a landfill in Africa and in a lake in Switzerland
TEDDY!
Kunstnach in Demmin, Germany
17.5.2025
What about you, your dreams and your childhood? Who are you now and what do you wanted to be?
Tense!
Essen, Germany
27 und 28.6.2025
In cooperation with the sound composer Matthias Rosenkranz (59perlen) , “Tension is an installation and a performance about the relationships between humans and humans and the urban environment they are living. The threads as a symbol for fragility and distance, connections and ruptures.
Watch the video below :
WASSER! KIDS
Dance performance and sound Installation
1945. Demmin, North Germany. More than thousand people committed suicide in a couple of days at the end of war. The city was occupied by the Russian army. People were killed, kidnapped or rapped. Many families decided to kill their own children in the rivers around the city after themselves.
Demmin 12,13 and 14.9.2025
Global Villages (FoDaKu) and KUMASTA
CARIBE!
An hanging installation made with 4000 shoelaces for a dance performance.
Autumn 2025, Stralsund
SHOPPING BAG
We swim in an ocean of thousands shopping bags looking for happiness.
This nonsensical phenomena change our behavior, our body perception and environment till we get obligate to leave this place called earth.
„Unterstützt durch das Landesförderinstitut des Landes Mecklenburg Vorpommern und die Stadt Stralsund"
Foto: Anke Neumeister
MUTTER!
is installation and dance performance at the same time. Hundreds of threads are used to connect the body of the performers with the environment.
This installation is a discussion about the urban space, the current social distancing and the tension in the human relationships nowadays.
We are dependent of a society. Keeping together is now to respect the distance between
us and at the same time we want to keep our right to individuality.
AGBOGBLOSHIE/
ist ein Ort in Europa
2026 in Stralsund again
Dance performance about the strongest human beings on earth-Agbogbloshie is the electronic landfill Europe. It is situated in Ghana, Africa and in your home
„Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR.
SEA URCHIN
"Sea urchin” started on the island of Skiathos,Greece as a very spontaneous performance in a bar. I began to collect all the used straws I founded in the city and installed them as a part of my body. It’s remember the beautiful but dangerous and sometimes painful sea urchins around the beaches from the island.
At the same time, I use the performance to make attention to the irrational use of plastic in our daily life.
How do I feel if I have to live with plastic in or on my body as many animals in the ocean?
Since Sommer 2019 I use to do this small action in every city I visit .
Swan Lake
As a testimonial about the situation from artists in Covid times, this performance at the Lake Zurich combine ice swimming with dance and the interaction with real swans and the environment.
Foto: Hadi Jeanrichard
PRESSE
Here you can find some of the various newspapers publications about the performances.
About me
Born in beautiful tropical Costa Rica I started my artistic education at the age of 8 at the Conservatorio de Musica y Artes de la Universidad de Costa Rica and finished my studies at the Ecole Professionelle Superior de Danse in Montpellier in France.
I worked as a dancer for Stadttheater Freiburg, Deutsche Rheinoper Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Theater Dortmund and the Oper Bonn and as a performer for Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser in Cologne.
As a teacher I have been invited to give classes in Istanbul (CATI), Skiathos ( ERASMUS), Athens (ECHODRAMA) , Freiburg (Bewegungsart) and Düsseldorf ( Tanzhaus NRW)).
I have been working in Düsseldorf for Plöger/Winkler/Becker and became a member of the theater company Lokstoff in Stuttgart.
Now I develop my own performances for places outside of a theater to guarantee accessibility to the beautiful world of dance arts.
My TEAM
Is my family. I love them in pieces.
Camila Scholtbach
Robert Ssempijja
Sylvie Cieren
Keisuke Mihara
Francesca Perrucci
Camille Berthelin
Sarah Minarik
Matthias Rosenkranz
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