Experiencias como intérprete bailarina en un festival artístico en Bogotá

Abstract

Internship is one of the options available to students upon completing their academic training. This approach empowers students to fully apply their learning in a real-world context, allowing them to assess and measure the skills acquired in their education, while also enriching them in the practical setting. Additionally, this experience enables students to compare the expectations created in the classrooms with the realities of their profession. In this internship, focused on cultural management, as a dance interpreter in the Dance Art curriculum of the Bogotá Superior Academy of Arts, I participated in the pre-production, production, and post-production stages of the XIV International Showcase of Performing Arts "Movimiento Continuo," directed by Rafael Acero and Felipe Páramo. The breadth and variety of tasks undertaken—set design, lights, sound, makeup, choreography advice, dance interpretation, purchasing, filming, various tasks, cleaning, inventory, and makeup, among others—allowed me, as a student, to experience firsthand the complex framework surrounding the cultural management required for organizing and implementing a festival of this nature. In this document, from an artistic perspective, I narrate the daily life of this process, recording it through a log or field journal, noting each event through writing and drawing, thus constructing a visual memory of the tasks I performed and the emotions experienced at each stage of the process. One of the fundamental lessons the internship provided me was the opportunity to engage in activities that were not anticipated. I never imagined that the events that led to these activities would occur in an arts festival, which undoubtedly serves as evidence of the reality artists face in the endeavor of creating and spreading culture in this city.