​is an artist whose practice spans performance, choreography, visual culture, design, research and cultural production. Trained as a professional ballet dancer, she has built an international career across artistic, institutional, diplomatic and commercial environments.

Her professional experience ranges from performing and choreographing to graphic design, film production, cultural programming, diplomatic liaison and multilingual communication. She has worked across the arts, cultural institutions and professional environments outside the arts, including technical and commercial contexts requiring her to quickly understand unfamiliar fields, translate between different forms of expertise and facilitate communication between people with very different professional backgrounds. Moving between these environments has developed a practice of close observation, rapid adaptation and cross-cultural communication.

With more than 15 years of professional ballet experience, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ballet Opéra de Nice, Ballets de France and Ballet Oficial de Bolivia, her career has encompassed an international classical and neoclassical repertoire, including works by Balanchine. Alongside her performance career, she worked as a pedagogue at the National Ballet School of Bolivia and completed both Cuban and American Ballet Theatre teacher-training certifications. She also pursued Dance Studies in France while developing a parallel professional practice in graphic design, driven by a sustained interest in visual culture, aesthetics and the ways ideas take form. Her career has progressively expanded from performing within established artistic structures toward creating, producing and directing her own work, moving across choreography, dance film, visual design and cultural production.

This trajectory has also extended beyond the arts into professional environments requiring different forms of technical, creative and organisational expertise. At Blobel Film, she worked across the company’s visual identity and communication, including graphic design, website development and promotional materials, while also contributing to film production, festival organisation, distribution and international communication. Moving between these functions and environments has developed an ability to enter unfamiliar fields, understand different forms of expertise and connect them with precision, reinforcing a professional practice that moves naturally across artistic disciplines and industries.

The result is a practice shaped by movement: between body and image, performance and design, artistic production and research, cultural institutions and unfamiliar professional worlds. Mackena’s work emerges from this constant movement between forms of knowledge, disciplines and environments, using each as a way of seeing, making and understanding the others.