About Fóramen M. Ballet

 "Fóramen conquers the Palacio de Bellas Artes"

Foramen has a strong personality and technique to choose their own way with brightness and sensibility. You must follow them.

Colombia Moya, La Jornada, May 2006

 Fóramen M. Ballet is a contemporary dance company founded by Marcos Ariel Rossi and Beatriz Madrid in 1998. Both of them have been studing and dancing in Europe . Marcos Ariel studied and danced at Mudra school, in Bruxelles from 1987 to 1989, Italy and Switzerland . Beatriz Madrid studied at The Place (London school of contemporary dance) and won the school prize for talented dancers.

Through theatrical expression and high technical risk, Fóramen M. Ballet develop a unique identity and propose a strong ethic and poetic art. The creative process of the company is focused on the authentic being of each human, the sensitive part of us that joins the other, through the magic of dance.

With their company, they have performed and presented their work in the most important theaters in México : Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Art Theater), Teatro de la ciudad (City theater), Sala Miguel Covarrubias (University theater) and Centro Nacional de las Artes (National centre for the Arts). Many festivals have welcome them in their programme : Festival Tajín 2000 in Veracruz, Festival Mérida Capital Iberoamericana de Cultura in 2000,  Festival  Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de San Luis Potosí in Teatro de la Paz,  Festival Internacional Música del Mar in Huatulco (Oaxaca) in 2002, also in collaboration with the Opera Ifigenia en Táuride,  Festival  Internacional de Zacatecas and II Buenos Aires danza Independiente in Argentina in november 2005, with their program Lo que quedó de la luna.

In Mexico, their company have been awarded with several national grants (FONCA) in order to create their projects : the choreography Destinos by Beatriz Madrid in 2003 and IMAGINAR-io by Marcos Ariel. That last piece was also invited to be presented in south-America and Europe for the next year. Fóramen received a Mexico en escena grant through the National coordination of dance to realize its project named Odisea 05.

The piece Solo X 1 instante (Alone for a moment) by Marcos Ariel Rossi was awarded in the national contest INBA-UAM and performed at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. His last project IMAGINAR-io, el amanecer de la Rosa, won the national production Grant.