Pepe Hevia

Pepe Hevia is a teacher, creator and dancer of national and international renown. Creator of more than
of more than 60 choreographic compositions for his own company as well as for casts and conservatories
and conservatories in most of Latin and Central America. His very personal language, compositional style
and his consolidated teaching formula are the result of more than 30 years of experimentation.
of more than 30 years of experimentation.

Pepe was born in Havana, Cuba on June 2, 1971. Since he was a child, art became his most vital means of communication.
his most vital means of communication, and at the age of five years he began his training in the universe of folkloric dance and the
of folkloric dance and choreographic composition, being part of high rigorous casts,
both on the stage and on Cuban television. Years later she studied at the Escuela
National School of Dance – ENA, where he graduated in 1989 to become the most important mentor of young dancers and creators
young dancers and creators of the Cuban avant-garde of the eighties.
In the early nineties he emigrated to Barcelona, collaborating with renowned Spanish companies.
companies and in 1993 he founded the company that today bears his name.

As an artist he has been awarded in multiple disciplines beyond dance, among which stand out awards for the production of
audiovisual works, in addition, he has received the National Dance Award of Costa Rica.
National Dance Award of Costa Rica – 2013, the First Prize for Choreography at the International Choreography Competition in
International Choreography Contest of Burgos – New York – 2009, the First Prize in the Choreography Contest of
Choreography Competition of Maspalomas – Gran Canaria – 2000.

Since 2013 he settled in the city of Lima where he collaborates as guest choreographer for the National Ballet of Peru.
guest choreographer for the National Ballet of Peru, until 2015, when he focuses on the creation of his new
new cast, currently resident company of the ICPNA.

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