Lina Gómez is a Colombian choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Berlin. She received a MA in Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and BA in “Communication of the Arts of the Body” with an emphasis on Dance and Theatre from the Catholic University of São Paulo. Her recent choreographic work, A Passo di Mulo, was supported by the Einzelprojektförderung 2018 of the Berlin Senate. Her work Restraint was first presented at ada Studio, and then at the Sophiensaele in the Tanztage Berlin 2018 before touring numerous venues across Europe. Restraint is also part of the European dance platform Aerowaves Twenty19. Lina Gómez is also a co-founder of the Compania Aberta de Dança of São Paulo (2008), where she has been developing works collectively ever since as a choreographer and performer. Lina has also worked as a dancer with Yoshiko Chuma, Tino Sehgal, Edson Fernandes and Jorge Garcia among others.