Light is body
Light communicates
Light is time
Light is form
Light is movement
Light is sound
Light is space
Light trembles
Light divides or integrates
Light composes a space to be inhabited
Light fragments the observer's space
Light reveals or deceives
Light separates and makes invisible an observing public
Light incites you as a passive or active actor
Light as a luminous body
Light is an entity of small corpuscles called photons full of energy
Light is reflection and refraction
Light is duality between what is tangible and intangible
Light can be one or the sum of all
Light all or nothing
Light body
Light performance
Light choreography
Interdisciplinary artist and lighting designer
A light enthusiast and Honorary Artist of FONCA since 2017, Jésica Elizondo explores the processes of transformation and activation of space-time in the performing arts. Her work focuses on spatial conceptualization and lighting design, with a special interest in bodies that function as containers of choreographic knowledge.
Elizondo is the co-creator and co-director of Poética sobre la escucha (2024), CUERPO NO CUERPO (2022), ANÓNIMA (2021) —a finalist for the Guillermo Arriaga National Dance Award— and Disposición del Ser (2016) projects carried out under the EO Project label. As a performer, she has been involved in pieces such as LEIB ¿qué resiste un cuerpo? (2022) by Shantí Vera / Cuatro X Cuatro, SALTAR (2022), a binational video art project by Melissa Herrada (Mexico) and Cordelia Grierson (United Kingdom), funded by the British Council, and EL CUERPO VACIO (2017) by Shantí Vera / Cuatro X Cuatro, with performances in Mexico, Germany, Peru,
the United Kingdom, and Brazil, among others.
Her work in lighting design has been recognized with four LIT Lighting Design Awards (Switzerland): in 2024 for Stage Lighting con LEIB ¿qué resiste un cuerpo? and Theater Performance Design con CUERPO NO CUERPO 2022 for Theater Performance Design for her work on ROADTRIP, and in 2021 in the Stage Lighting category for DISOLVER. That same year, she was a finalist for The WIL Award (United Kingdom) in the 2020 Achievement category, sponsored by Women in Lighting. In 2020, she published the book Iluminando espacios, which gathers the thoughts of over 50 Mexican artists, and received an Honorable Mention at the LIT Lighting Design Awards (Switzerland) for her work on Pic-Nic at New Bond. In Mexico, she has won the award for Best Lighting Design at the National Dance Award for Contemporary Choreographic Creation three times: in 2019, 2011, and 2008.
Currently, she is a Member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) 2023-2026 FONCA and collaborates with various artists and collectives with shared interests in artistic thought. With over 70 stage lighting designs, her work has been presented in major venues in Mexico and in more than twelve countries.
