DANZAHRA FESTIVAL
EDITION 2024
Contenido audiovisual : Nicolás Murillo Sánchez
- What did it offer?
The Danzahra Festival offered 5 days of workshops and movement practices from 10:00 to 15:00.
- When?
From April 30 to May 4, 2024.
During the week, there were events open to the public and more activities where different artistic disciplines managed to meet.
- Where?
On the wall of Zahara de los Atunes. Zahara is a fishing village in the province of Cadiz, very close to Barbate and half an hour from Tarifa.
TEACHERS 2024
Candela
Murillo
In 2012 she joined the English National Ballet Youth Co (London) under the direction of Holly Noble, participating in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
She studied Neoclassical dance at the Centro Andaluz de Danza. Postgraduate Masters Degree at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds obtaining a Masters Diploma in Contemporary Dance with Distinction (NSCD) forming part of the Phoenix Dance Theatre Company.
She has worked with leading choreographers such as: Johan Inger (Creation Project, Movement Experimentation, Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville); Caroline Finn; Sharon Watson, Douglas Thorpe, Aletta Colins.
She moved to Penang (Malaysia) to become a dancer with Jet Leang Dance Theatre.
She is currently a dancer with the Dutch companies of Panama Pictures and Dadodans, where in 2021 she received the Dutch National Theatre Award.
Maximiliano
Sanford Monte
She was a former gymnast of the Brazilian Olympic team. She has danced in companies such as: Losdedae (Madrid), Date Danza (Granada), Cie La Flux (Paris), Cia Daniel Abreu (Madrid), Cia Isabel Vasquez (Seville). She took part in different projects with European choreographers such as: Sharon Fridman (Madrid), Yutaka Takekey (Toulouse), WinVandekeybus (Brussels), Raphael Boitell (Paris), Lucio Baglivo (Madrid), Laly Ayguade (Barcelona). He participated in the cast of Macbeth at the Scala Theater in Milan as an acrobat dancer. He has worked with the choreographer Laly Ayguade in the show “De camino al otro” at Freedom Festival Hull in Kingston upon Hull. As a teacher he worked in Madrid schools such as: Carmen Senra, Victor Ullate, Bambú Danza, Descalzinha Danza, among others. He has also taught several workshops in Europe and Brazil, has been invited as a speaker at the Conservatorio de Danza Contemporánea de Granada Reina Sofía, Conservatorio Mariemma de Madrid and Conservatório de Dança do Vale do Sousa – Portugal. He has been invited as choreographer and assistant director by different circus, dance and theater companies, such as: Karlik Danza (Cáceres), Cia Shakti Olaysola (Basque Country), Cia IO (Vigo), Cia LaPettite (Granada), Cia Lucio Baglivo (Madrid), Luna Teatro Danza (Madrid) among others.
Lucio A.
Baglivo
I work as a dancer, acrobat, actor, dance teacher and director/choreographer. One of my main goals is to bring my creations and my classes to anyone regardless of their technical level, training or previous experience. So far my projects have been presented in Germany, Turkey, Argentina, Holland, USA, Brazil, Greece, Denmark, Chile, Spain and Italy. The aim of my works is to achieve a scenic work that, through dance, acrobatics and theater, transmits emotions and connects with the spectator, displaying all the senses on stage. Each project seeks its own movement language and a particular scenic poetics. I work as a director, choreographer and teacher giving classes of acrobatics, contemporary dance and my methodologies Lucid Movement, Sensitive Memory, Lucid Contact and Acrobatics for all for different companies, circus schools and dance conservatories in Spain, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Brazil, Belgium and Argentina.
In 2024 I receive with Mariana Collado a residency of creation to premiere a new production at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid.
Clémentine
Télesfort
She is a French artist dancer who has been performing and teaching in Europe internationally since 2012. She trained at TrinityLaban in London and then at the Verve Company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, where she received the Outstanding Achievement Award. She worked as a performer with choreographers such as Guy Nader and Maria Campos Company, Lali Ayguadé Company, Anton Lachky, Jamaal Burkmar and Gecko in England. In addition to being a performer, Clémentine has been developing her own choreographic language over the years and her works have been performed in several international festivals. She also continues to research different disciplines such as physical theater and clown, contact, or the study of somatic practices and martial arts such as Systema (Russian Martial Art) with Rob Poyton and Alexander Solovyev and Play-fight with Bruno Caverna. In 2019 he curated and directed the first edition of an International Rural Cultural Festival, the “PinkHouse Festival” in Northern France.
Flor
Buzzo
Born in Buenos Aires, since her adolescence she began her studies in Aikido, acrobatics, Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Internal Martial Arts. She studied Circus and Performing Arts at the U.N.S.A.M. (Argentina). Then she graduated in her second professional career at the Centre des Arts du Cirque Ésacto’Lido, Toulouse (France). At the same time he studied B.M.C (Body Mind Center), Internal Martial Arts, Anatomy of Movement, Nervous System and Neuroscience. She collaborated with various directors and choreographers and worked as co-creator in several shows, companies and festivals in South America and Europe. In 2017 she created Flow Force as a name for the research she has been deepening with the body, and which she is currently teaching in France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, India, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
DANZAHRA CINEMA 2024
JULIA VARGAS
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6 HOURS OF FIRE from Julia Vargas Cometta on Vimeo.
Julia Vargas
“6 HOURS OF FIRE”
“6 Hours of Fire” is a dance and theater project that examines the intricate relationship between humanity and modern machinery. Inspired by the Shirtwaist Triangle tragedy of 1911, where 146 lives were lost in a New York textile factory fire, the project contemplates the historical shift in women’s rights.
Using a textile environment as a metaphor, exploring occupational alienation and mental health, it holds up a mirror to the complexities of the human experience in our increasingly technological world. Imagining a future shaped by technology, we consider how modifying our very nature will redefine our understanding of what it means to be human.
Carmen Bamba
“The same view wherever you look”
The theme of the piece revolves around the protagonist’s awareness of the decline of modern society and her futile effort to change its cyclical and self-destructive nature. Human beings are portrayed as both victims and perpetrators, creators of a society they cannot do without.
Vanesa Aibar
“The mist and Dark”
A body that opens a path, a furrow in the stony earth that illuminates a path flooded with fog, and emerges, solemn and majestic, Vanesa Aibar. Her movement, cutting the air with surgical precision, the movement of her arm breaking the space… creates the form. And, thus, the dance is born.
BRUMA (2023) from LEROUX Films on Vimeo.
Joaquín Dávila Romoleroux
“BRUMA”
Bruma” is a collaborative project that joins the efforts of several artists for the creation of a hybrid piece, conceived as a performative exercise, which is born from the interaction from the improvisation of a sequence of movement, from a piece of ambient electronic, creating a unique image from the contrast of its rhythmic counterpoint.
No bi ha trigo sin porguesas from Violeta g on Vimeo.
Violeta Garcia
“No bi ha trigo sin porguesas”.
We sometimes get into dynamics and roles, and when we want to realize it, too much time and too many afflictions have passed under our skins.
The value of the woman as a fundamental pillar in a family, her abnegation and renunciation of her own life, the “taking care” and the “keeping quiet”. This piece talks about self-love and the toxic attachment-affective relationships of people, expressing it all through the most primitive language that exists, dance.
Is a release possible?
DANZAHRA MOVES 2024
The Basal
OBRA:
MUDARSEINSTALARSE
Anna Riley-Shepard
WORK:
REWILDING THE BODY
Fabian Krestel
GUEST ARTIST
WORK:
THE LABYRINTH
iXa
OPEN CALL
PLAY:
OLLOS CARA ADENTRO
INFORMATION OF INTEREST
TRANSPORT
How to get to Zahara de los Atunes
- Plane: Airport near Seville and Jerez.
- Bus: Transportes Generales Comes. Information on departures and schedules at https://www.tgcomes.es/
- BlablaCar: https://www.blablacar.es/
ACCOMMODATION
Zahara de Los Atunes has a large number of hotels and apartments and there is also a campsite nearby.
For any help and information please contact produccion@festivaldanzahra.com.
