Juan Dominguez is an artist, maker, and organizer within the fields of choreography and performing arts, based in Berlin and Mexico City. He considers himself a conceptual clown, magical porcelain cowboy, model-poet, untied narrator, and curator of pleasure. Since 1992, he has been producing his own work, exploring theatre as a medium and redefining the parameters of dance—body, time, space, and language. His work emphasizes the participatory aspect of live art, seeking new ways to understand responsibility, commitment, and co-authorship among all involved. His recent foray into ceramics marks a new dialogue with the visual arts. Over the last 24 years he has engaged in projects that could be labeled as expanded choreographic practices or at the intersection between dance and live art. Over these years one major concern has been rethinking the political potential of theatre by constantly questioning theatrical conventions and Western expectations of spectatorship. The second constant concern has been time, both as a topic and raw matter to experiment with. Throughout his career, Dominguez has participated in over 40 productions as a dancer, performer, or dramaturge. He regularly mentors and coaches students and professionals in choreography and theatre, having taught classes and workshops across Europe, China, Russia, and South America. Since 2001, he has lived and worked in Berlin, where he was a resident artist at Podewil/TanzWerkstatt in 2004 and 2005. From 2016 to 2022, he was an artist with Tanzfabrik Berlin and Buda Kortrijk as part of the European network apap – advancing performing arts project. Alongside his work as a performer, choreographer, and director, he is also engaged in curatorial activities. In 2015 he had a researcher position at apass.

Juan Dominguez is a conceptual clown, model-poet, untied narrator and curator of pleasure.

Some of his works are: The taste is mine (2000), All good spies are my age (2002), The Application (2005), Shichimi Togarashi in collaboration with Amalia Fernandez (2006), All good artists my age are dead (2007), Don’t even think about it! (2008),  blue (2009), Clean Room Pilot (2010), A room without view (2011), Characters Arriving (2011) in collaboration with Los Torreznos, Clean Room Season 1 (2012), Clean Room Season 2 (2014), El Triunfo de la Libertad (2014) in collaboration with La Ribot and Juan Loriente , Clean Room Season 3 (2016), Between what is no longer and what is not yet (2016), Live Sculptures and Slogans – Avant-Garten (2017) in collaboration with Arantxa Martinez , My Only Memory (2018), Tálamo (2020), Between you and me (2020) in collaboration with Amalia Fernández, The Baroques A film from the beginning of the century (2021) in collaboration with Maria Jerez, This is not normal (2021) and This Is still Not Normal (2022) in collaboration with Arantxa Martínez, Rhythm Is The Place (2023), nO me tienE quE interesaR (2023).

In the last 20 years he has curated different festivals and programs. He was artistic director of the Festival In-Presentable/La Casa Encendida (2003-12), co-curator of Living Room Festival (2010-17), co-curator of Picnic Sessions at CA2M-Madrid (2013-15), curator of Winter holiday-Somewhere in between Fiction and Reality/Kunstencentrum Buda Koetrijk (2013), curator of From Fiction to Friction- Les Soirées Nomades/Fundation Cartier Paris (2013), co-curator of Festival Avant-Garten at Interntional Sommer Festival Kampnagel-Hamburg (2017), curator of Tramas Film Festival (2024).