Short bio:
Born and raised in Miami (Seminole land) to Cuban parents, Mango Lynx (they/she) aka Kat Hernandez is a multi-disciplinary artist that centers creative play and pleasure (stay jugando) — a singer-songwriter, self-taught music producer, dancer-choreographer, movement director, audio erotica voice actor, writer, certified emotional support specialist, somatica trained relationship & sex coach, embodiment guide and dance graduate from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
new single ‘si me juegas’ out now everywhere!
Long bio:
Mango Lynx [they/she] is a Cuban-American multi-disciplinary performing artist. Mango received a BFA in Dance from CalArts in 2016 and went on to teach contemporary dance workshops and choreograph dance theater productions in the US and Europe from 2017-2019.
In 2017, Mango was approved for an artist visa in Germany as a finalist for the Perypezye Urbane Dance Association and premiered original work at the Butoh Festival Verda Utopio in France. In 2018, Mango returned to Miami, FL to be in residence at Miami Light Project for the Here & Now program developing new choreographic work and was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium visual and media artists fellowship grant.
Mango was a Contact Improvisation dance practitioner between 2018-2019 before pivoting mediums because of the pandemic lockdown. In 2019, Mango engaged in a 10 month personal research study around North America to archive Contact Improvisation in the US and Canada. At the end of this excursion, Mango settled in Portland, OR where they began co-hosting queer jams and workshops.
During lockdown, most dancers were able to teach online but Mango could not continue a Contact practice because it required touch. Mango decided to redirect creative energy and began learning music production on Ableton Live. Since then, Mango has been focused on producing music with plans to integrate experimental dance making practices.
Recent performances include live music premieres at Jolt Radio for Miami Music Week and Asheville Community Radio.
Currently, Mango is producing, writing and releasing new music, exploring their sound in multiple genres and experimenting with latin pop, electronic music and ambient noise to adapt for dance-theater productions, training in pole, refining their choreographic pedagogy and working for QUINN as an audio erotica writer and voice actor.
Most recently, Mango was 1 of 50 dancers selected to study Flying Low technique with David Zambrano at TicTac in Brussels, Belgium for a 5 week intensive in the Fall of 2023 but during that process, Mango realized they’ve outgrown a particular way of working with “dance” and is rewriting their relationship to movement and performance.