The Dancers:

Bethania Joaquinho
Production assistance & Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’
She was a permanent dancer with the National Ballet of Paraguay and the Ballet Stagium of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She participated in an international tour with the work "Isadora" by Spanish choreographer Fernando Hurtado, with performances in Spain, England, and Portugal. During her stay in Germany, she participated in an artist residency at the Deutsche Tanzkompanie in Neustrelitz and directed the cultural project "Debka," a joint project with Syrian refugees from the Kunsthaus Neustrelitz. As an independent artist, she was a member of the Produktionzentrum Tanz und Performance in Stuttgart and taught contemporary dance classes at the Tanzteather Werkstatt in Ludwigsburg. She participated as a guest artist with her work "Lost and Found" at the Giovanne Elber Foundation Gala in Waiblingen and at the "Raw and Polished" festival in Neuremberg. She was selected for the "Abril en Danza" festival in Alicante, Spain, with her piece "Tal vez puede aprender a quererte," where she also received a scholarship to the Anton Bruckner University of Performing Arts in Linz, Austria. Upon returning to Paraguay, she participated in the production and premiere of the piece "Origami" by Spanish choreographer Roberto Olivan. In 2018, she founded the "Cia.Danza Bethania Joaquinho" based in Paraguay, a professional independent contemporary dance company where she is currently the artistic director and choreographer.

Bethania is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since early February 2025.  

"Personally, the process of working with Laura Guy caught me at the beginning of motherhood, with a one-year-old baby. And besides the challenge and the physical and mental effort, for me it meant reliving, feeling like myself again after having become a mother. A very meticulous job, full of beautiful details, that challenged me to the limit, and in which I found again the joy and happiness of being on stage."
 

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Nastia Goiburu Vologdina
Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’
 

Paraguayan performing artist with experience in contemporary dance, cultural management, and production. She was a dancer with the National Ballet of Paraguay (2011–2014) and has since developed an independent career, creating and collaborating on dance, theater, screendance, and urban intervention projects with artists from Latin America and Europe.

She holds a degree in Environmental Engineering (UNA), is a Certified Classical Dance Teacher, and an instructor of Pilates and AirYoga. She teaches body and aerial practices and has been exploring lighting design for dance since 2019.

A member of the cultural association *Crear en Libertad*, she has participated in national and international performing arts festivals. In 2023, she joined the research team of *Scenic Retrospectives*, focused on the recent history of dance programming in Asunción. Her work is marked by interdisciplinary sensitivity, commitment to the independent scene, and a continuous search for new bodily and scenic languages.

Nastia is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since March 2025.

“Working with Laura was technically and energetically challenging; she always finds a way to make us do better with what we already have. I'm very grateful.”

 

Gloria M.Morel 
Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’
 

Paraguayan performing artist, creator, and teacher with over 18 years of professional experience. She holds a Teacher's Degree in Classical and Contemporary Dance from the IMA (Municipal Arts Institute) in Asunción, Paraguay. She received a scholarship to participate in seminars for the Specialization in Contemporary Dance Trends (UNA - National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina). She was a member of the National Ballet of Paraguay (2011-2022), under the direction of renowned national and international artists, in addition to her own creative processes and collective creations.

She is the co-founder and member of Tercer Espacio Colectivo. She has toured stages in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, and Spain with workshops and works.

She teaches dance in public and private institutions, spaces, companies, and independent dance and theater groups, where she is also invited to take on roles such as choreographic direction, asistant or advisor. She participates regularly in Artist Residencies or movement and creation research spaces in Paraguay, Europe and Latin America.

Gloria is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since March 2025. 

“Working with Laura Guy gave me a unique opportunity to refresh and expand my dance vocabulary, while remaining truly myself and maintaining the joy and pleasure of moving and expressing myself through different images, bodily and emotional states.”

 

Gloria Elizabeth Benítez Recalde
Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’

Paraguayan dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. 

She began her dance career at the age of 4. During her childhood, she took artistic gymnastics classes at the C.P.J., as well as taekwondo and athletics. 

She holds a degree in dance from the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes (Higher Institute of Fine Arts). In 2019, she received a scholarship to study for a semester at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She graduated from the Villa Elisa Art School with a degree in Classical, Paraguayan, and Jazz Dance. 

She has participated in numerous national and international competitions, as well as in courses with Paraguayan and international teachers in classical, Paraguayan, jazz, and contemporary dance, as well as teaching didactics. 

She has participated in independent productions and was also part of the CIA. She is a member of the Bethania Joaquinho Dance Company. - She currently teaches and owns the EL FIESTON brand.

Gloria is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since March 2025.

“It was a challenge to capture all the images, sensations, and textures she proposed in each movement of the work. Physically, she also took us to different states, moving from speed to stillness, paying attention to each and every detail planned so that the work tells a story and maintains the viewer's interest from beginning to end.”

 

Fátima Galeano
Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’

Fàtima Galeano is a dancer and performer trained in contemporary and classical dance at the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes (ISBA).

Since 2019, she has been part of various national companies and has participated in creative processes and artistic residencies held in Paraguay, collaborating with choreographers from different countries.

In 2024, together with two other performers, she founded the Colectivo Artístico Incesante, which in 2025 premiered its first original creation, Cuerpos de Agua, choreographed and performed by its three founders.

As a performer, she seeks to build a solid trajectory based on commitment, sensitivity, and a versatile interpretative capacity that allows her to convey emotions through movement. Her creative approach and constant dedication to improvement drive her to continue growing in the art of dance.

Fátima is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since March 2025.

“The creation process of Are you coming to my Pyjama Party was as demanding as it was enriching. Through attention to detail, the use of imagery, and the sensitivity of movement, I discovered new ways of interpreting and expanding my movement language.”

 

Florencia Boccia
Dancer – ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’

Florencia Boccia is an emerging performing artist based in Paraguay. Started her training as a dancer in ballet, jazz and contemporary dance and then ventured into theatre, she continued her studies in Paraguay, Brasil and USA. Has performed and worked with national and international choreographers, collaborates as a teacher, creator and performer with various companies, institutions and independent groups of Paraguay, being part of many dance and theater pieces premiered in the local scene.

 

Florencia is part of the original cast of ‘Are you coming to my pyjama party’ and has been working with Laura Guy since March 2025.
 

“Working with Laura has been a wonderful experience, the process is meticulous and very rich in details and imagery that gives me as a performer lots of insight to play with, her work is precise but fun and endearing”