Rocio “Pez” is a professional dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher from Málaga, Spain, who has been based in Berlin since 2016. With more than 15 years of experience in the dance scene, her practice moves between contemporary dance, waving, popping, and animation, combining these disciplines to create a distinctive movement language rooted in both urban and contemporary forms.

At 18, Rocio also began studying Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona (UB), where she explored a wide range of artistic techniques and approaches. Her background in visual arts continues to influence her creative process, giving her work a broad artistic perspective that extends beyond dance and allowing her to approach movement through spatial, visual, and conceptual research.

Throughout her career, Rocio has worked as a dancer and performer across stage productions, films, television, commercials, and independent projects. She has collaborated with choreographers and artists including Kadir “Amigo” Memis, Joy Alpuerto, Volksbüne,  Joachim Goldschmidt, and Lukas Malkowsky. Her work has taken her across Europe and internationally, including Germany, Spain, South Korea, Italy, the UK, Thailand, and China. She has performed at renowned venues and festivals such as Tanz im August, HAU Berlin, and Volksbühne.

Among her projects, in 2021 she worked on Kadir “Amigo” Memis’ Opferschicht in collaboration with HAU Berlin, performed as a main ensemble dancer in the television series Babylon Berlin, and appeared in projects for JD Sports and a tourism campaign for Almuñécar, Spain. In 2022, she performed in UrbanFeminism at the international festival Tanz im August, worked with Joy Alpuerto on the theatre production V-I-E-R, joined the Red Bull dancers for the Dance Your Style event, and choreographed and performed in BACH-TOD-TANZ. 

Rocio is also the co-founder of two companies. Together with Liam Wilson, she founded SilentShout, a project combining contemporary circus, physical theatre, waving, and animation. With Enoch “Inox”, she co-founded Fracta Dance Company, bringing waving, animation, and popping into contemporary dance forms.

Since 2024, Rocio has increasingly focused on developing and strengthening the Waving community in Berlin. Through events, workshops, and regular Waving sessions, she has been creating spaces for exchange, practice, and artistic development within the scene. She launched Wave to the Stage and co-organized the Waves Within European Qualifier in 2024 and 2025. She was also a finalist at the 3 vs. 3 Waving World Championship and served as a judge at Waves Within Europe 2025. In 2026, she is co-organizing Diving in Tides, the first international Waving convention.

Currently, Rocio continues to research and develop her own movement approach. Through her choreographic work, collaborations, teaching, and community-building initiatives, she explores the dialogue between contemporary dance and urban movement practices, continually expanding the possibilities of waving, popping, and animation within contemporary performance.