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Geo Legorreta

Geo is a dancer, musician and teacher who recently returned to her homeland Mexico after living, training and working in Great Britain , India and Java. She has performed in London , Mexico , France , India , Indonesia , L.A. and New York .

From an early age she studied the guitar and folk dances. In 1978 she traveled to London to study English language, music and dance. At the Academy of Indian Dance she was trained in Mohiniyattam and Kathakali Dances. Later in South India she trained with Mrs. Nirmala Venu (1989 - 1990) where she did her Arangetram or dance debut.

In London Collegue of Music she obtained a scholarship to study guitar and obtained a Diploma in Guitar Teaching (1984 - 1987) and since then she has been teaching in schools. She performed in the ''Whipps-Legorreta'' guitar duo in Mexico and England (1984 - 1989)

Geo has performed in dance productions of the Academy of Indian Dance , touring in Great Britain and Paris . In 1989 formed her own Mohiniyattam group in Bristol : ''Shaktala'' which now continues in Mexico and Cuernavaca with Mexican students.

Geo traveled to Java an island in Indonesia (1994 - 1997) to study movement and Javanese dance under the scholarship 'Dharmasiswa' given by the Indonesian Government.

In August 1998 Geo returned to Mexico City after being away for nearly 20 years. She is interested in promoting Oriental Dance and continuing her music teaching. Since her return she has performed in : Sonora , Puebla , Cuernavaca and Mexico City . She has been part of Kerala Dance Theatre performing in the USA and Mexico (1999 - 2000). In 1999 was invited by Stuart Cox's Cultural Festival in Rajastan , India to perform with Patricia Torres a performance of ''La Llorona''.

Her presentation of Dances from South India will include traditional choreographies and new creations. Some of the items in the program have a narrative character in which the dancer will tell stories from the Hindu mythology through using hand gestures, facial expressions and dance. Indian dance searches and finds the harmony between music and body movements, interweaving rhythm, melody and grace with the beauty of Indian color, poetry, fragrance, music and song.

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