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Choreographers & ARTISTS

SEASON 2023-2024

Born in Stockholm, Sweden (1967). He completes his dance training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and the National Ballet School (Canada). From 1985 to 1990 he danced in the Royal Swedish Ballet. In 1990 he entered the Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT) and soon became one of the dancers with the most character and charisma of the Company.

Since his debut, Inger has created various works for the NDT. For his ballets Dream Play and Walking Mad, he received the Lucas Hoving Production Award in October 2001. Walking Mad (later danced by the Cullberg Ballet) was awarded the Dance & Dance Award 2005. Inger was nominated in various Dutch Awards such as the Golden Theater Dance Prize 2000, the VSCD Dance Panel and the 2002 Merit Award from the Stichting Dansersfounds’79.

In 2013 Inger received the prestigious Carina Ari Award in Stockholm for the international dissemination of Swedish art and dance. Inger left the NDT in 2003 to take over, as artistic director, of the Cullberg Ballet, a company he ran until 2008.
His work is commissioned by numerous ballet companies around the world. He was nominated for the prestigious “Benois de la Danse” award for the best show of 2016. Since 2009 he lives in Seville.

Higher Degree in Dance in the specialty of Choreography and Interpretation Techniques, Carolina Armenta studied classical and contemporary dance at the Carmen Roche School and graduated at the Royal Conservatory of Dance in Madrid. Between 1989 and 2003 she danced with the Netherlands Dans Theater, NDT, in Holland,under the direction of Jiří Kylián and between 2003 and 2008 with the Cullberg Ballet, Sweden. She has danced in pieces by Jiří Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Hans Van Manen, William Forsythe, Johan Inger,,Sidi Larbi, Nacho Duato, Paul Lightfoot-Sol León and Alexander Ekman among others. She teaches classical ballet as a guest lecturer. Since 2008, Carolina Armenta has been rehearsal director and assistant to choreographer Johan Inger, teaching his works in schools and world-renowned dance companies.⁠Teacher at Centro Andaluz de Danza in Seville (2010-2020).

Born in Stockholm where he got his professional education at The Royal Swedish Ballet School followed by his first engagement at the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1980.
After nine years, 1984-1993, as Principle Dancer at The Hamburg Ballet he continued his dancing career at William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt, 1993-1999.
1999-2002 he took on the Artistic Directorship of The Gothenburg Ballet, during which he raised the company’s international and contemporary profile.
2004-2009 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Nederlands Dans Theatre. In this position he commissioned and introduced works by among others Crystal Pite, Marco
Goecke, Wayne McGregor, William Forsythe, Alexander Ekman, Medhi Walerski into the repertoire.
After three years of international freelancing, he returned to NDT to take on the position of Curator & Artistic Producer 2013-2019.
Besides teaching and coaching the dancers of the companies he has been directing, Anders Hellstrom has been a regular guest teacher at the Royal Swedish Ballet, The Norwegian National Ballet, Berliner Staatsballett, Ballet National de Marseille to mention a few.
Presently he is teaching and coaching on a freelance base.

After his studies at the Conservatory of Paris, Yvan Dubreuil started his career at NDT in 1991. In the 18 years that followed he danced in works by Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe and Saburo Teshigawara to name a few. Yvan has also worked as co-choreographer, dramaturge and set designer with such artists as Karine Guizzo, Johan Inger and Dylan Newcomb. Prizes have distinguished several of those works, such as Walking Mad by Inger, winning the Lukas Hoving Prize best production 2001; as well as Newcomb’s Passing and Full Circle, winning the same prize in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Yvan has been collaborating with Amos Ben-Tal since his very first creation in 2005. Yvan Dubreuil is one of the co-founders of OFFprojects, a collective consisting of former dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company. Ensemble, gathered around the work of choreographer and musician Amos Ben-Tal.⁠

Sandra Marín studied dance at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, specializing in classical dance with teachers such as Guillermina Coll, Barbara Kasprowicz and Mirtha Pla. Upon finishing his studies, he joined the company Danza Dark, directed by Guillermina Coll. After two years, he began a long professional career abroad dancing in companies such as: Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Cullberg Ballet, Netherlands Dans Theater I and Kidd Pivot, among others. Throughout these years, Sandra has had the pleasure of working with choreographers like Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Johan Inger, Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot & Sol León, Crystal Pite, Itzik Galili, Tero Saarinen, Birgitte Cullberg and William Forsythe, among others.

Her immersion in the artistic world and the style of Crystal Pite, director of Kidd Pivot, began in 2010 and also involved an immersion in the world of improvisation and creation. Likewise, Sandra began to develop the task of répétiteur and creator in different fields and international companies.

As a choreographer, in 2010 she created “Almost”, a piece for the elderly, at the Maximum Dans Course in Den Haag, organized by the Nederlands Dans Theater. In 2011 he created “Stringing Light”, together with Jiri Pokorny, for the production “Works- by members of Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM” and, together with Zoran Markovic, she created “Insight”, for the Dance Theater Heidelberg and “Cosa Nostra” for the Tanz Luzerner Theater. Sandra collaborated with La Fura dels Baus as a choreographer in their opera “Cantos de Sirena”, created for the Luzerner Theater (2015) and the Cologne Opera (2016). In 2017, Sandra created another piece for the elderly, ” Look at Me”, for the Luzerner Theater.

Sandra has been working as a répétiteur, teacher and coreographer for more than a decade. She has taught workshops in programs such as the Maximum Dans Course in The Hague, the Nederlands Dans Theater Summer Intensive, the DAF Center in Rome, Strut Dance in Australia, Dance Italia in Lucca and the Maria de Ávila Conservatory in Madrid, among others. Likewise, she has collaborated as a repeater with Crystal Pite, Johan Inger and Fernando Hernando Magadan.

In 2018 Sandra returned to Barcelona. She currently works at the Institut del Teatre as a teacher for the CSD, the CPD and the young company Itdansa, and continues to collaborate with different training platforms throughout Europe, giving workshops.
Trained in Yiquan – Martial and Therapeutic Arts – in Switzerland by the Chen Akademie, she currently combines her training in the Armor Liberation Method (MLC) with her Bachelor’s degree in Catalan Language and Literature at the UOC.

Clyde Emmanuel Archer was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Barbados W.I. before returning to New York City where he began his training with Eliot Feld’s BalletTech school (Feld Ballet / The New Ballet School). 

Later, he attended the Professional Performing Arts School, while simultaneously training at The Ailey School. He completed his studies at The Juilliard School, and received his BFA in dance under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. 

Clyde has worked at Compañía Nacional de Danza with Nacho Duato, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Gothenburg Opera Ballet, Cullberg Ballet, and The Royal Swedish Ballet where he performed works by Mats Ek, and Sasha Waltz and Guest, as well as with Eliot Feld as a guest artist with BalletTec.

Clyde is currently working with Sharon Eyal and Gai Beharś L-E-V Dance Company.

Born in Belgium (1981), Ralitza Malehounova completed her education at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp.
She danced with the Stuttgart Ballet, Mannheim Ballet and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam.

Throughout her career she worked closely with several choreographers on new creations and performed in a diverse repertoire from the traditional classics to contemporary works by renowned choreographers such as: John Cranko, John Neumeier, Marcia Haydée, George Balanchine, Uwe Scholz, Christian Spuck, Douglas Lee, Marco Goecke, Ed Wubbe, Jiri Kylián, Hans Van Manen, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O’Day, Felix Landerer, Georg Reischl.

Later Ralitza continued her path as a free-lance dancer, teacher and assistant choreographer. She started staging Marco Goecke’s work for several companies and throughout the years has worked as a teacher and repetitor with Codarts Rotterdam.

From 2017 till 2021 Ralitza was a ballet-master at NDT working closely with Choreographers Marco Goecke, Medhi Walerski, Edward Clug, Paul Lightfoot, Jiri Kylián, Sharon Eyal, Marne&Imre Van Opstal, Yoann Bourgeois and Damien Jalet on existing repertoire and new creations within the company.
In 2021 she returned to her freelance career staging and teaching classes and workshops all around the world.

Gustavo Ramírez was born in San Fulgencio, Spain and was the Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater from 2009 to 2013. He now combines his work as a freelance choreographer with the direction of TITOYAYA, the company he founded in 2006 in Spain with Veronica Garcia Moscardo. Sansano has been the recipient of numerous awards for his choreography and has been commissioned to create works for many companies such as Alvin Ailey, Nederlands Dans Theater, Compania Nacional de Danza, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Luzerner tanz Theater, Introdans, Gibney Dance Company, Ballet BC, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Hispánico among others. As a dancer, Sansano was part of prestigious companies such as Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid/Victor Ullate, Nederlands Dans Theater and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Dancer and choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan has worked at the Dutch company Netherlands Dans Theater for the past 20 years. First as a dancer for NDT2 and later for NDT1.He became rehearsal director for the company, and finally director of the prestigious junior ensemble NDT2. In his career as a dancer he has collaborated with choreographers of the highest prestige such as Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter among others.

As a choreographer, Fernando has created works for companies such as NDT1 and NDT2, Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago, Cross Connection Ballet Company in Copenhagen, Ballet Mainz and Donlon Dance Company in Germany, British Columbia Ballet in Vancouver, Luzerner Theater in Luzern, Korzo Theater in The Hague and BODYTRAFFIC in Los Angeles. Fernando was invited to participate in the Benois de la Danse Awards Gala at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 2013.

More than 30 countries have welcomed Ansa and Igor, whether to dance, share their methodology, set up their Metamorphosis International Residency, offer their experiences forming works of art together with associated artists, or simply to create. Together, the pair has staged more than 20 choreographies for relevant groups and institutions such as Lines Youth Ballet in the United States, the Opera Ballet of Lyon, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Arts Umbrella in Canada, and the National Dance Company in Spain, for which they created Jián (2018).

Since starting to work together, Ansa and Bacovich have discovered that their ideas, forms, and focus, have moved in the same direction. Beyond a mere shared understanding of staging, the pair coincidentally shared an interest and passion for the work in the studio with other dancers. This motivated them to create and develop tools to make the work of the dancer more efficient. This research ultimately became their methodology. Simultaneously, they have created choreographies on request as well as a large series of their own work, which have been shown in theatres, gala events, and festivals across the globe.

In 2020 Iratxe was recognized for her efforts with the National Prize for Dance in Spain.

 

Nicholas Palmquist is an internationally recognised teacher and choreographer, currently based in Berlin.

As a freelance dancer in New York City, his eclectic work experience has ranged from films like In The Heights and episodes of SNL, The Tonight Show, and Netflix Original Series; to live performances with American Dance Machine, on the Tony Awards, and with the Radio City Rockettes. Nicholas and his movement have been featured in Vogue Magazine, Numero China, Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Tanz Magazine,  Vogue Mexico, Nordstrom, Kenzo, Zalando, and at NYFW. 

Since moving to Germany, Nicholas has created world premieres with Ballet x Schwerin, Semperoper Ballett, and Palucca University. He teaches Masterclasses with Marameo Berlin, Staatsballett Berlin, and their educational program; Tanz Ist KLASSE!  He continues to develop his genre bending movement language, and In addition to his world-famous classes at Steps on Broadway in New York City, Nicholas has accepted invitations to teach in Italy, France, London, Germany, Brazil, Austria, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Paraguay, Shanghai, Japan, Slovakia, Sweden, the Philippines and Switzerland.

Mario Bermúdez Gil is a prolific and multi-award-winning choreographer from Jaén. He combines the creations and exhibitions of his own company, Marcat Dance, in Spain and abroad, with the teaching and transmission of his way of working, and with choreographic commissions for other relevant international companies such as the Compañía Nacional de Danza of Spain, the Hung Dance Company of Taiwan, the Scapino Ballet of Rotterdam, il Nuovo Balletto di Toscana or the National Dance Company Wales.

Since his establishment in Spain, Mario Bermúdez has been awarded for pieces created for Marcat Dance at the Copenhagen International Competition 2016, Masdanza 2018, Burgos-New York in 2019, he has been a finalist in three categories at the Max Awards in 2020 and nominated in 2 categories in 2022. He has also been awarded the 2021 Lorca Award for “Best Male Dance Performer”.

https://marcatdance.com/

Catherine Coury is a performer and the creative assistant of Choreographer Mario Bermudez Gil, as well as a Gaga Teacher (Movement language of Ohad Naharin/Batsheva Dance Company) and Ilan Lev Practitioner. She has received multiple awards as an interpreter, including “Best Dancer Award” from Premios PAD in Seville, 2020; was finalist as “Best Female Interpreter” in Premios MAX 2020, and received “Best Dancer” in 2019 from Certamen Coreográfico Distrito de Tetuán.

Dedicated to dance education, Catherine frequently teaches at conservatories, universities, and companies around the world and in 2019 launched the first ever Study Abroad Program for the University of Michigan (USA) in Spain in partnership with Marcat Dance.

Prior to living in Spain, Catherine resided in New York City for five years working with choreographers Shen Wei, Shannon Gillen, Andrea Miller, and Loni Landon. As a performer she toured internationally in venues including the Lincoln Center (NYC), Art Basel (Miami), Festival de Danse (Cannes), and Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre (Moscow), among others. As a dance administrator, Catherine played an integral role in the development of Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance and The Playground NYC. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Catherine received her BFA from the University of Michigan.

https://marcatdance.com/

ISABEL VÁZQUEZ

Sevillian director, choreographer and performer with an intense professional career linked to Dance and Theater.
Degree in Art History from the University of Seville.

Trained in Classical Ballet and later in Contemporary Dance at the Andalusian Dance Center, and at The Place-London Contemporary Dance School.

Entrepreneur of educational and scenic projects such as the Center for the Performing Arts of Seville and Excéntrica Producciones, the umbrella under which some of her shows have been born.

As a dancer, she has worked for numerous companies on the national scene, including 10&10Danza and L’Anónima Imperial. She has worked in productions directed by choreographers like Ramón Oller, Emio Greco, Jordi Cortés, Rober Tannion and Nigel Charnock.
His choreographic works, endorsed by critics, have been awarded numerous prizes.

Isabel has made choreographies and scenic movement for theater companies, collaborations with other artists and short pieces for the Andalusian Dance Center, where she developed his role as a teacher from 2009 to 2020.

www.isabelvazquezdances.com

Higher Degree in Dance in the specialty of Choreography and Interpretation Techniques. Trained in classical and contemporary dance. In 1987, she founded Hidra Danza, the first Andalusian contemporary dance company where she was a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He has been part of the teaching staff of the Seville Theater Institute for 14 years.

And since 1997 she has been a contemporary dance teacher at the Andalusian Dance Center. The development of his professional career has focused on teaching, a large part of his students are in companies around the world. She combines this activity with creation, participating as a choreographer in various Andalusian theater and dance theater companies. She has choreographed two versions of the opera Rigoletto, directed by G. de Tomasi and L. Iturri for the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, and as a repeater of Ramón Oller in Aida directed by José Luis Gutiérrez and Pedro Halffter.

Together with Manolo Marín, he co-directs the work “A Contratiempo”, a fusion of flamenco and contemporary dance, premiered at the Sitges Festival in 1999. Pilar has directed and co-directed with Ramón Oller several shows for the Andalusian Dance Center. Between 2006 and 2008 she choreographed two children’s shows with La Tarasca Company.

In 2009 and 2019 she is the choreographic director of three works of the Cía. El Velador/Chinabaus, Hildegard (2009), Upper (2010) and La cocina de los Ángeles (2019), that where premiered at the Itálica International Dance Festival.

In 2014 and 2015 she was part of the group of artists “Música en Movimiento” together with the composer, director and violinist Bruno Axel, premiering the works Muk & Move and El bosque de los submergidos at the Teatro de la Maestranza.

Between 2010 and 2020, she has been a contemporary dance teacher, head of studies and co-director of the Andalusian Dance Center.

Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher of Contemporary Dance.

He began his classical dance studies at the Kina Jiménez Professional Dance Conservatory, Almería. In 2002 he moved to Seville, after receiving a scholarship for the contemporary dance program at the Andalusian Dance Center, where he trained in various techniques; Graham, Simonson, Release and Humphrey, specializing in partnering work and the Limón methodology, with teachers such as Risa Steinberg, Maxine Stainman or Ramón Oller, his artistic godfather… (2005 – 2013).

He began his professional career in Barcelona, in companies such as Trànsit Dansa by María Rovira, Roberto G Alonso dance theater or Metros Dansa by Ramón Oller, among others, making numerous national and international tours in important theaters such as Tel Aviv Opera House, Sadler’s Wells Theater London. , Joyce Theater NYC or the Mercat de las Flors, and at festivals such as the Peralada Festival, the Manizales Colombia Festival or Danza Valencia, etc. He performs several choreographic assistances, among which Ramón Oller stands out, at the same time that he collaborates in various Opera productions and participates in TV Klan as choreographer and jury of the Star Academy Talent Show, Albania.

From 2014 to 2020, he works at the Andalusian Dance Center (Seville), as a teacher and choreographer, teaching Limón Technique, Pas de Deux and Choreographic Workshops. At the same time, he collaborates in several productions with other artists, such as Bueno Axel and Pilar Pérez Calvete in Music in Movement (Maestranza Seville), BCN City Ballet (Barcelona – New York) or with Patricia Guerrero in the International Festival of Dance Itálica (Seville), among others.

He is currently the Founder and Artistic Director of Dance Meeting Seville, High Performance Dance Campus, in collaboration with the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville in which he brings together several international artists. Guest teacher in different schools in Andalusia and Professional Conservatories or for the CEP (Centro Enseñanza Profesorado), among others. He combines his projects by collaborating as a dancer and performer in the productions of the Andaluza Teatro del Velador Company.

It has recently received the TEJER DANZA 21 Award, at the XII Edition of the PAD awards. Recognition of the work in the development of the dance fabric in Andalusia with projects like “Dance Meeting Sevilla”.

Javier Perez studied dance at the Andalusian Dance Center (Seville) and the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona).

He began his professional career in 2008 working in different spanish companies and projects, dancing pieces by Johan Inger, Eva Bertomeu, Fernando Hurtado, Pilar Pérez Calvete, etc.

In 2012 he joined the Swedish company NORRDANS, where he worked with choreographers such as Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Marcos Morau, Fernando Melo, Roy Assaf, Martin Forsberg among others.

As of 2015, he returns to the freelance environment working with companies and choreographers around Europe, like Andersson Dance (Sweden), Isabel Vázquez (Spain), Alexander Whitley Dance Co (UK), Mari Carrasco (Sweden), Gustavo Ramírez (Spain), among others.

Trained at the Institute of the Theater of Seville, the Abadía de Madrid and the Ecolé de Phillippe Gaulier, he has worked with important companies such as La Cuadra, Comediants, la Cía. National Classical Theater and Tricicle. In 2004, he created the Centro de Artes Escénicas de Sevilla and Excéntrica Producciones.

As an actor he premieres “Waiting for Godot” by Beckett, for which he received the Lorca Award for Best Actor. He has also worked with Maurizio Scaparro, Josef Svoboda, Götz Loepelmann, Achim Thorwald, Johan Inger and José Carlos Plaza, among others.
Between 2016 and 2018 he served as Secretary General of the Union of Actors and Actresses of Andalusia.

Manuela Nogales is a pioneer and key player in contemporary dance made in Andalusia. Throughout more than forty years of artistic career, the creator, who is also a dancer, has certified this with a journey in which words such as research and commitment have crystallized in more than fifty works, many with her own company, created in 1994, but also in various initiatives and artistic projects with public and private entities, and in national and international festivals. This trajectory, fruitful and extensive, is today a reference in the contemporary creation of the Southern Spain. Added to this creative effervescence is her recognized and vocational teaching since 1985, through which numerous performers have passed.
As a choreographer she has carried out numerous works, with her own company and other private companies and entities such as Centro Andaluz de Teatro, Centro Andaluz de Danza, World Athletics Championships, Isla Mágica Thematic Park, Teatro Maestranza, Bienal de Flamenco, Teatro Villamarta de Jerez or Zarzuela Theater of Madrid. With her company, Manuela Nogales Danza, she has participated in key points for dance inside and outside the country such as Choreographic Competitions of Madrid and Maspalomas, Dance Valencia, Dance Month of Gijón, Dance Month of Seville , Teatro Central, Itálica International Dance Festival, Madrid in Dance, Spanish Platform for the Bagnolet Meetings, Glasgow International Festival, Havana Dance Days, Lima International Festival, Aerowes Spain, Madrid in Dance, Brigittines Festival and The Ráfinerie-Charleroi Danse of Brussels.
The latest awards received were: Musical Authorship Award to Lehónidas Boskovec and Male Dance Performer Award to Manuel Cañadas for the show “Noche transfigurada” at the 2023 Lorca Awards. Award for Best Dance Show, Award for Best Choreography and Award for Best Dancer to Lucía Vázquez for the show “Poéticas en la Sombra”, with 5 nominations at the Escenarios de Sevilla 2021 Awards. Award for best Choreography and best Costumes for Margarita Ruesga at Escenarios de Sevilla 2018 for the show « Silencio y Ruido », with 5 nominations at the Seville Stage Awards.

Sandra Ortega studied classical and contemporary dance at the Seville Professional Conservatory and the P.A.R.T.S. high school. (Brussels). She combines the creation of several of her own works with her participation in scenic works by Belgian choreographers such as Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Cia. Rosas, Les Ballets C de la B, Kris Verdonck/Two Dogs Company or Johanne Saunier / Joji Inc. She also collaborates with filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg in London for the feature film “22:22”, with designer Marlies Dekkers in the Netherlands Basses for “El Despertar” (Tv Spot), with Berenger Bodin, Francia, and with Cía. Project One and Two Dance-Theater Proposals in Seville, among others.
In 2007 she joined the Rosas company on the occasion of the replacement of several repertoire pieces (Rosas danst Rosas, Drumming, Bartok/ Mikrocosmos) and she continues her collaboration with the Belgian company in subsequent creations during more than a decade (D’un Soir Un Jour, Golden Hours).
Currently, she resides in Seville, where she works as a collaborator of the Company. Brotha From Another Motha, as a performer for the Company. Two Propositions Dance-Theater, and as a dance and Feldenkrais Method teacher.