After finishing Baccalaureate studies in dance at the National School of Dance in Guatemala, she shares her life between dance and the circus, collaborating in diverse projects and companies such as: the company Circo DeMente (Mexico City), the dance company Momentum (Guatemala), the organisation of the Guatecirko Festival and the Chiripa Festival in Guatemala.

She is the promoter of the B’atz Circus School project in the city of Guatemala.

In 2018 she created the show A la orilla del Tiempo, co-produced by the Cultural Centre of Spain in Guatemala and with the support of the Iberescena grant Escribiendo la escena Centroamericana in El Salvador.

Choreographer of the graduation show of the National Circus School of Río de Janeiro.

Currently, she is researching and creating the Ajpu Circus project with the companionship of the Eia circus company.

In the Maya cosmovision, AJPU is the dancer, the artist, the walker. In this project, Ileana nourishes her circus and choreographic language with the visual arts using collage and live projections.

Presentation updated in September 2021