About

Hello, I am Ingrid Esperanza – artist, creator, and researcher.

My journey with hair suspension began nearly twenty years ago. Over time, my relationship with this practice has evolved through various perspectives: from its connection to dance and hybrid performance languages to its symbolic dimension and its power as a meditative and somatic practice.

For the past eight years, I have dedicated myself to deepening and expanding this art through research processes, workshops, talks, and training encounters, always rooted in a place of respect and body awareness. Throughout this path of transmission, I have woven together a growing community, a space for support, care, and the ongoing evolution of this technique.

My approach to teaching hair suspension is not limited to the hairstyle or the poses in the air. I propose a holistic and global understanding of the practice, an experience that, through a state of trance, opens the door to a profound connection with oneself, the emotional world, and the body’s most subtle sensations.

As a mentor, I have had the immense pleasure of guiding the first “flights” of wonderful artists who today share their art on stages such as Cirque du Soleil, Franco Dragone, Compagnia Finzi Pasca, and Cirkus Cirkör, among others. I have also supported contemporary circus companies across Europe and Mexico in their creative and choreographic processes related to this practice.

Although this art form is historically linked to the circus and the stage, I personally live and transmit it as a practice oriented toward health and self-knowledge: a meditative dance where rooting and floating are intrinsically connected.

Currently, I am developing a project dedicated to the research, dissemination, and training of hair suspension, with the support of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC) in Mexico.

My work as a researcher and mentor is born from a living practice that, after nearly two decades, continues to be a constant source of learning, inspiration, and transformation. From this foundation, I develop hair suspension through a holistic and integrative lens, where the body, listening, and consciousness intertwine.