Katia Castañeda is an artist who works in the intersection of various disciplines and practices ranging from choreography, theater and visual arts. She is interested in the social and artistic ties that are generated in everyday life and thinking about alternative forms of creation. Her recent works have been presented in different forums, plazas and museums in Mexico, Colombia and the United States. She was artist-in-residence at Movement Research, New York, 2012-2014. She was a fellow of the Creadores Escénicos [Scenic Creators] program in the interdisciplinary category, 2019-2020, and of the Jóvenes Creadores [Young Creators] program, 2009-2010. She is currently a member of the neuroperformance collective TACo, Transdisciplina, Arte y Cognición [Transdiscipline, Art and Cognition].

Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia is a traditional music band founded in 2011, that performs different musical genres that are played along the coast and coastal-mountains of Guerrero: chilenas, sones, cumbias, boleros, corridos, jarabes, palomos and merequetengues; mainly from the me'phaa peoples (Tierra Colorada, Santa Cruz del Rincón, Azoyú) and from the ñomn'daa people (Xochistlahuaca). In the villages, this music is transmitted orally from generation to generation, and in that same manner, this is how the band has learned. Mixanteña is a unique band that understands the importance of tradition, but at the same time is receptive and open to spreading their knowledge and connecting with those traditions from the present and current context.