iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo is an Ecuadorian performerx, choreographer and violinist based in Cologne. Her works deals with transdisciplinary constellations and experimental quests of real-time composition, decoloniality, queerness and ritualism empowering local communities.

iSaAc is the artistic director and founder of maiskind, an artistic community in Cologne, with whom she created; Gathering of Gargoyles: X (2022), Gathering of Gargoyles (2022), MAISTARS mit Starlab (2022), maiskind the film (2021/22), being shared in Spain, Germany and South America. iSaAc has created further works such as Mama Dulu (2023), she-saac (2020/21), among us (2019), Doris’ Hand (2018), Perform Atelier (2018), among others; iSaAc is a member of SOFRA Queer Migrants e.V. and interfemme e.V. with whom she is been working closely since 2022.

They has worked for and with StephanieThiersch – Mouvoir Dance Company, Brigitta Muntendorf – Ensemble Garage – Köln, Marina Abramovic & MAI – Abramovic Institute, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Mehdi Farajpour – Oriantheatre Dance Company Paris, Amanda Piña, Ensemble hand werk – Köln, Theater St. Gallen – Marcos Darbyshire, Lynsey Peisinger, InesDoujak, Dayna Martinez – Amsterdam, Valeria Gonzalez – interfemme, Annalisa Derossi – BTHVN20, among others. They received, among others the DAAD Prize 2016 of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz – HfMT Cologne and further public and private scholarships at the Junior RNCM Manchester, FOSJE Quito – Ecuador, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Center for Contemporary Dance – ZZT in Cologne and the Stockholm University of the Arts.

http://www.isaacespinoza.eu/