DANIEL ORTIZ AMEZQUITA (Colombia)
Daniel Ortiz Amézquita (1999) I am Daniel Ortiz, a Colombian, Bogotá-based performing artist, maker, director, producer, and co-founder of Cuerpos que Gritan (2019), a collective, an ecosystem, through which I lead processes of creation, production, and the promotion of contemporary performance formats.
I graduated in Performing Arts from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and am studying for an MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. My practices intersect acting, writing, contemporary dance, and improvisation.
My work is driven by a search and a deep interest in creating new ways of imagining the theatrical and performance experience. This question of other possibilities has led me to step outside the theatre building and find possibilities in other spaces, experiment with different creation methodologies, develop my own performance training strategies, and question artistic practices from a critical and attentive perspective, particularly in relation to my country.
These interests and experiments have led me to create pieces in apartments, such as Un Manifiesto, co-directed with Sol Malagón, a semi-lecture piece that questions what theatre is and how to reimagine it, ending with a banquet with the spectators; AnGusTia, a reading and a renunciation of the arts that is also a clandestine dinner; and Taxonomy of a mom, a biodrama that explores memories with my mother through random objects and ends by assembling a puzzle with the spectators.
I am currently directing Troca, a documentary theatre piece about the Venezuelan exodus that takes place inside a moving truck in Bogotá. The piece brings together elements and interests that have consistently appeared throughout my work: working with biography, the tension between fiction and reality, collaborative and horizontal work with colleagues understood as creators, site-responsive creation, and a desire to create experiences that are increasingly intimate and close to the spectators.
Projects with CPPM
CPPM TRIPTYCH: WalkYourChair (2026) · Valga/Valka: Space × Architecture × Performance (2026) · CPPM LÄBU: Linia Maternă (2025) · CPPM LÄBU: Taxonomy of a Mom (2025) · Here We Are (2025) · CPPM EXPROMT 1.1 · 1.2 · 1.3 · 1.4 · 2.1 · 2.2 · (Double Bill) (2025)
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