{"id":15944,"date":"2024-02-22T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=15944"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:37:52","slug":"nico-contreras","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/nico-contreras\/","title":{"rendered":"nico contreras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nico Contreras<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Ecuadorian Canadian interdisciplinary artist working between movement and text in theatre, contemporary dance, and film. Honoured to have learned with mentors across the Americas, from Quito\u2019s Teatro Malayerba to Toronto\u2019s Aluna Theatre, Nico has spent the last decade exploring the curious relationships between identity and abstraction in artmaking on a personal and community scale. Founder of the expresARTE program for Panamerican youth, he has most recently led research and creation processes bringing together artists from a variety of diaspora to critically reflect on the roles our practices play in our life and work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nico is currently working on <\/span><em><b>\u00f1a\u00f1o<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a play exploring the relationship between brothers in connection through absence, grief and loss. 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