Daniel Fetecua-Soto

A native of Bogotá, Colombia holds a BFA from Folkwang-University of the Arts, Essen-Germany, and has appeared as guest artist in Pina Bausch’s masterpieces, Rite of Spring and Tannhäuser. Fetecua has been a soloist member of the Limon Dance Company for ten years (2006-2016) dancing main roles in Jose Limón's masterpieces. Daniel has also danced works by Jiry Kilian, Susane Linke, Rodrigo Pederneiras/Grupo Corpo, Lar Luvovitch, Anna Sokolov, Doris Humphrey among others. 

Mr. Fetecua is a master teacher of the Limón technique and reconstructor of Limón's repertory, faculty member of the Limón Institute and founder member of Limón4Kids program. Daniel Fetecua is the founder and artistic director of two dance companies: Pajarillo Pinta’o, a dance company that preserves and promotes the Colombian traditional dances through dance performance, workshops and classes and D-Moves, a contemporary dance project that combines Colombian traditions, Modern Dance and the German TanzTheater. Daniel Fetecua is a longtime collaborator of Colombian composer and musician Pablo Mayor. Together, they have created "Amalgama", "El Barrio Project" and the educational residency Cumbia For Kids/Cumbia For All. Since 2008 has worked with Native-Choreographer Rosalie Jones/Day Star for her work "Wolf: A Transformation", from whom Daniel has the rights to the piece for the performance, preservation and promotion. Daniel has collaborated as a choreographer and teacher with REvolutionLatina and Salgado Productions both directed by Luis Salgado  since 2011. With Foundation La Espiral in Colombia, Daniel has created a training project of Limón technique and Limón repertory through workshops since 2009. Fetecua was recently hired as adjunct dance faculty at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts for the fall 2019 and Universidad del Atlantico in Barranquilla-Colombia for the fall/spring semester dance program 20/21. He is the producer and artistic director of LATITUDES DANCE FESTIVAL, a new NYC based platform to promote and present Latin American and Native dancers, companies and choreographers from around the world.

Daniel Fetecua is currently resident choreographer and board member of ID Studio Theatre a not-for-profit organization led by Colombian actor German Jaramillo. He is also a resident choreographer at Teatro SEA directed by Manuel Moran for which he has choreographed "Sueño"-  a Caribbean take of Shakespeare Midsummer Night Dream and "La Gloria: A Latin Cabaret". For La Gloria, Fetecua recently won a HOLA award for Best Choreography. Other commissions include the Connecticut Ballet, Opera Hispánica and Universidad Distrital of Bogotá.