Fugas + Serenity Suite Matxalen Bilbao Company

The piece interrogates the idea of group and formulates new forms of relationship, articulating different types of dependence. It unfolds different situations on the same concept. The five dancers progress together. Sometimes linked, sometimes separated, but always close. In a playful tone, they evolve with tuning through the

music of Chopin and Bach, creating a lucid chaos.

Best Dance Piece 2018 in "La danza inunda Santander" - La Espiral Contemporánea (Santander Contemporary Dance Festival).

Artistic data

Direction and Choreography: Matxalen Bilbao

Cast: Nekane Mendizabal, Miren Lizeaga, Aiala Echegaray, Natalia García, Nerea Martínez

Music: Chopin, Bach

Costumes: Java Vintage

Residencies: La FuNdicIOn, Utopian, CDART.

Production: Infinita escena

Subsidized by: Basque Government Department of Culture

A piece of great artistic maturity both in its choreographic writing and in its interpretation. The theme of the "passage of time" runs through the whole piece, in a subtle way, without gravity, without nostalgia. A duet where Matxalen continues to show her experience in the management of "space-time". With this work she has opened new territories that she had not explored before: transformations of the face, insertion of texts.

An extremely moving duet with a very discreet expressiveness mixed with abstraction. A generous dance, inhabited and very sober at the same time; a dance that goes to the essential and that radiates without fuss.

Artistic data

Address: Matxalen Bilbao

Main actors:Natalia García, Matxalen Bilbao

Original Music: Itziar Madariaga

Lighting Design: David Alcorta

Texts: Adriana Barestein

Photos Video: Itxaso Beistegui

Production: Isabel Jiménez Infinita Escena

Subsidized by: Basque Government

Artistic residencies: La FundicIOn, Utopian, Mallandain Ballet, Azkuna Zentroa, Kultur Leioa.

Acknowledgements: Espacio Espiral Santander.

Dancer, pedagogue and creator, she is one of the names that invariably sound when talking about contemporary Basque dance. She has danced for the companies "Forros" (la Fundición) Bilbao, "Con buen pie" (Bilbao) and "Damián Muñoz". In 2004 he was a finalist in the International Contemporary Dance Contest Masdanza (Gran Canaria) in the solo category.

Since 1998 she has been creating on her own, outlining a personal vocabulary. Interested in deepening and developing her own thinking, she continues to insist rigorously and methodically on her concerns, tracing a coherent path.

Her creations have been presented in prestigious National and International Festivals such as Regards Croisés (Biarritz), BAD (Bilbao), Festival de Artes Performativas Y#10 Covilha (Portugal), Dantzaldia (Bilbao), Cuerpo y Ciudad (Buenos Aires), Festival 3D (Madrid)...Open to collaboration with other creators she collaborates with the Traversée Company of Biarritz. Resident choreographer in the project Atalak 2.0 of Dantza Konpainia in February 2018.

Teaching is an important part of her career. For more than 20 years she has been training dancers in the Basque Country and has been invited to teach at dance festivals and schools where she gives workshops.