A la vuelta de tu/mi esquina
Around Your/My Corner
Dance performance · Bogotá, 2025
Two dancers move through drawn façades of Bogotá that change with projection mapping. Set design and production.
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Maria Paula
Correa Muñoz
Architect Scenic designer
Los Rituales Secretos
The secret rituals
Realized production
Set Designer, Director & Producer
Bogotá, 2026
Years after the death of their son, neither of them has managed to let go of the rituals that bring them comfort. She cooks for someone who will never arrive, while he attends a funeral that is not his son’s, seeking to say goodbye to someone who disappeared from his life long ago. At the end of the day, each confronts their loss in solitude.
Concept
Courtesy of Pain — Duality
A satire of false kindness: gestures meant to comfort that keep grief from healing. The design splits each character in two, what they feel and what they show.
Emotional Landscape
Suspicion · Grief · Shame · Regret · Guilt · White Lies · Ritual · Hostility · Loneliness · Emptiness · Complicity
Whole on the outside, broken within: two masked figures share a room around a grief they never name, and that slowly consumes them.
Phase 1 · Filters
Phase 2 · The Box of Consciousness
Phase 3 · The Veil
Evolution of the Scenographic Proposal
Phase 1 used color filters, like gels on stage lights, as masks: a manipulated view of the characters from outside, while something different happens within.
Phase 2 separated the two worlds. A translucent box contained two actors as the characters’ consciousness, while two others played reality on the floor; as the play advanced, the box descended onto the kitchen and the coffin, the objects through which each character channels their grief.
Phase 3 adapted this idea to the available budget, time and crew: the box became a veil for prerecorded video of the characters’ consciousness, playing simultaneously with the live performance.
Ground Plan
Centreline section
Scenography diagram
Scenic installation
Material selection
Fabrication detail
Lighting storyboard
Object design
Scene 1 · 8:15 am
Scene 4 · The mortuary
Scene 9 · Back home
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A la vuelta de tu/mi esquina
Around Your/My Corner
Realized production
Set Designer & Producer
Bogotá, 2025
An interdisciplinary performance that explores the relationship between the body, the city, and human connections. Through dance, physical theatre, acrobatic movement, illustration, projections, and object manipulation, two characters inhabit 2D and 3D urban landscapes, revealing how relationships, like architecture, are continuously built and transformed through encounters and separations. The piece invites us to reimagine the city as a shared space of connection and belonging.
Watch performanceThe concept explores the city as a constantly evolving landscape, drawing from everyday scenes and the traditional residential architecture of Bogotá.
Through the language of drawing, the proposal captures the passage of time across familiar façades, revealing how they transform through daily inhabitation.
Ground Plan
Phase 2 Exploration placed on unconventional venues. Expansion of the modular proposal.
Scene 1The corner is drawnDoors, windows and cornices appear line by line, building the street around the dancers.
Scene 2The corner shiftsFaçades replace one another in time with the music, turning the same two walls into different corners of Bogotá.
Scene 3Color arrivesColor fills the façades, and the walls become a place to climb and lean on.
Scene 4Time passesCracks, stains and faded paint age the façades as the relationship changes.
Contracorriente
Realized production
Lighting design & coordinator,
Scenic exploration
Bogotá, 2025
An interdisciplinary ensemble reinterpreting Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet through Colombian cultural forms.
Designed the lighting: a color palette for each character and moment, and the position of every instrument. Called the cues live during performance, and led the crew that installed the scenic design.
Watch performanceContracorriente · Color score, scenes 1–4
Scene A 2.1 · Lighting coordination
Scene B 7.1 · Water scene
Scenic elements
Vibranergy
Designed with:
Sebastian Vaca, Laura Pedraza, Daniela Arguello
Design Team,
Concept Development &
Visual Representation
Bogotá, 2023
An urban art and design proposal for Mannheim. Inspired by the city’s musical heritage and by fire as the origin of human gathering, its interactive sculptures turn wind and movement into sound and clean energy.
Concept development and render view, 3D model
Implantation axonometric
Render view, 3D model
Bamboo wall detail
Bamboo wall detail
Construction system axonometric
The New Cabin
Designed with:
Laura Pedraza & Daniela Baquero
Design Team, Concept Development & Visual Representation
Bogotá, 2020
A compact retreat from city life, designed for short or extended stays and remote work. Rooted in vernacular architecture, it uses bamboo, bahareque and passive strategies to open everyday life to the landscape.
Drawing & Making
Architectural Sketching
Architectural Scale Models
Linocut Print
Videos
Contracorriente
Ballet Triádico Research Group · Auditorio León de Greiff, Bogotá, 2025
Full performance of the ensemble’s reinterpretation of Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet. Lighting design and scenic installation. The video opens at 14:30, where the performance begins.
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Download CV (PDF)Maria Paula Correa Muñoz is an architect and scenic designer based in Bogotá, Colombia.
Her practice centers on designing narrative spaces: places that hold emotions an audience shares, and that draw the spectator into worlds unlike their own.
Contact
mariapcmunoz99@gmail.com
Bogotá, Colombia
Scenography & stage practice
- 2025 – present
- Scenography Production Assistant, Ballet Triádico Research Group, Universidad Nacional de ColombiaLighting design for Contracorriente; stage design implementation and projection-mapping setups.
- 2026
- Set Designer, Director & Producer, Los Rituales Secretos by Pedro Miguel RozoDesigned and fabricated the set; integrated live performance with prerecorded video and audio.
- 2025
- Set & Production Designer, Contracuerpo, Duo Dance Cultural Call (SCRD / BibloRed)2nd place, Professional Category, out of 40 entries. A modular, lightweight set for public spaces; projection setup and video mapping.
- 2025
- Set Designer & Producer, A la vuelta de tu/mi esquinaProjection-mapped façade walls for a dance and physical theatre piece.
- 2022 – 2023
- Competitive salsa dancer, Universidad Nacional de ColombiaRegional and national competitions; World Salsa Festival semi-finalist.
Training in scenography
- 2026
- Art Direction for Theater, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- 2026
- Canvas: Scenography for Live Performances, Lab Productora
- 2025
- Live Performances Production Workshop, Teatro Pablo Tobón Uribe, Medellín
Education
- 2026
- MA Housing Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- 2023
- BS Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Nacional de ColombiaTop 4 of 48.
Architecture practice
- 2026 – present
- Architect Consultant, Office of the Minister of Housing, Colombia
- 2024 – 2026
- Jr. Architect, Ikal Natural ArquitecturaGuadua bamboo and earthen construction.
Honors
- 2026
- Opportunity Funds, EducationUSA
- 2025
- Semillero de Talentos FDC, COLFUTURO
- 2025
- Outgoing Research Mobility Grant, Faculty of Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Skills
AutoCAD · Revit · Rhinoceros · SketchUp · Twinmotion · Illustrator · Photoshop · InDesign · Scale models · Hand drafting
Spanish (native) · English (IELTS Academic 7.5)