Native of Mexico, Guillermo Ortega Tanus is a resident artist at nEW festival 2009-10 and a fellow of the State Foundation of Culture and Arts (FOESCA Oaxaca 2009-10). As a choreographer, he is amused with combining invented movement vocabulary with theatrical images and visual metaphores. He has presented his solos and duets at Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Newsteps Series, and Tlacochimaco in New York. In Mexico, he presented at Foro Experimental, Fuego Nuevo, Los Talleres de Coyoacán and La Casa de Las Bombas.

He has danced for numerous companies and artists in both Mexico and the US including UX Onodanza, A Poc A Poc, Eterno Caracol, Kelly Nipper (LA), Miro Dance Theatre (Philly), David Gordon's Pick Up Performance Co. (NY), Risa Jaroslow and Dancers (NY), Anonymous Bodies (Philly) and many others.

Both as performer and creator, Guillermo has received grants from the National Foundation of Culture and Arts (2007-08), México en Escena (2005-06), Mexican Institute of the Youth (2003-04), and the Secretary of Social Development (1997-98). He has been supported by the National Council of the Culture and Arts and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.