Juancaballo
Juan Berlanga Company

Friday, November 13, 2026
19:30 h
20€
MUN Exhibition Halls
Duration: 25 min

A nighttime encounter between a young man and a horse. From their struggle and courtship, a new creature is born: Juancaballo. A Spanish and flamenco dance piece with contemporary and performative elements.

In the dead of night, a young man ventures into the thicket, driven by a desire he cannot name. A horse appears in the twilight. A dance unfolds between them, oscillating between combat and courtship, between taming and possession. In the end, a new creature emerges from the entanglement of their two bodies: Juancaballo.

Juancaballo explores the poetic birth of a contemporary centaur through the encounter between the human and the animal, between beauty and ferocity, between the instinctive and the cultural, and between the day and the night. A piece that revives a local myth with universal resonance to explore desire, loneliness, and transformation.
 

Artistic data

• Original idea: Juan Berlanga
• Director: David Coria
• Playwright: Alberto Conejero
• Choreography: David Coria, Gaizka Morales, Juan Berlanga
• Cast: Arthur Bernard Bazin, Juan Berlanga
• Costume Design: Tíscar Espadas
• Music composition: Pablo Peña
• Lighting design: Azael Ferrer

Juan Berlanga

Juan Berlanga is a choreographer and dancer. He holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and has built a career that brings together creation, performance, and research. His artistic practice is characterized by a dialogue between Spanish dance, flamenco, and contemporary dance, creating works in which physicality, visual dramaturgy, and symbolism play a central role.

As a dancer, he has worked with leading companies and projects in the Spanish dance and performing arts scene, and has been a member of the Spanish National Ballet since 2019. At the same time, he promotes his own creations, notably *Juancaballo*, as well as research and performance production projects such as *El salto de Butes*, which was awarded the BBVA Foundation’s Leonardo Grant—a work-in-progress that explores the relationship between myth, desire, risk, and transformation from a contemporary choreographic perspective.

Her training in Fine Arts and her doctoral research on Ezio Frigerio’s set design have reinforced a cross-disciplinary perspective on the stage, in which space, light, visual architecture, and bodily composition are all part of the same creative process.

In addition to his work as a performer and creator, he is also involved in educational activities focused on the transmission, research, and support of artistic processes.