Mexican-born Salome Nieto is a Vancouver-based dance artist known for her transformative works and evocative performances. Highly influenced by butoh, the cultural syncretism of Mexico and intersectional feminism, her work considers the significance of ritual and ceremony in contemporary dance. The exploration of these intersections led her to the inception and creation of her solo work Camino al Tepeyac in 2011 and subsequently co-founding pataSola dance in 2013. In 2017, Nieto was awarded the Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreographic Award for her contribution to the art of contemporary dance as a solo artist. She has performed her work in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua and Thailand. For the past thirty years, Nieto has worked prominently with Vancouver-based Kokoro Dance, where she is now Associate Artistic Director. Since 2008, she has also worked as an interpreter for Donna Redlick Dance and Raven Spirit Dance. As an arts administrator, Nieto held the position of Fine and Performing Arts Programmer for Dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts with the City of Burnaby in British Columbia for ten years. In 2023, Nieto earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
Salome Nieto’s work is created on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), SəỈílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.