Get a Glimpse of Dance
, Featuring Elna Matamoros

  Thursday, September 24
  18:00 h
  Free admission until full capacity is reached*.
Classroom 2
*Priority will be given to those with an invitation, which can be obtained with a ticket to any of the three shows.

"Asómate a la Danza" complements the artistic and choreographic works presented in " Museo en Danza." In each session, a dance expert provides the audience with insights that help place the choreographer within the context of their discipline and the performance within the framework of the artist’s creative process.

On this occasion, Elna Matamoros (Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Art Theory, ballet teacher at the Spanish National Ballet, professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, and contributor to *El Cultural*) will discuss Jesús Carmona and his latest work, *Tentativo*.

ELNA MATAMOROS

In her career, her extensive training, cultivated with great names in dance, and the practice as a ballet teacher and guest teacher for years, stand out. She first studied classical ballet with her mother, Carmina Ocaña, and later in New York with David Howard, Diana Cartier, Gelsey Kirkland, Simon Dow and Wilhelm Burmann, as well as at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School.

She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a Master of Arts in Dance Education from New York University as a Fulbright scholar and a degree in Classical Ballet from the Real Conservatorio de Arte Dramático y Danza de Madrid.

She was part of the National Ballet of Spain as Company Mistress between 2002 and 2012, year in which, at the request of José Carlos Martínez, she joined the National Dance Company as Repeating Mistress, to return in 2019 to the BNE as Ballet Mistress under the direction of Rubén Olmo.

At CND she was responsible for ballets of very different periods and styles signed by José Carlos Martínez, George Balanchine, Tony Fabre, Itzik Galili, William Forsythe or Léonide Massine, among others. She has also been the author and coordinator of the CND's collection of Educational Notebooks on authors, styles, ballets and subjects directly related to stage dance.

She has been an advisor to the Juan March Foundation, the Fulbright Commission (The Fulbright Program), the FWF Austrian Science Fund and the Loewe Foundation. For the latter, with which she has been collaborating since 2006, she has programmed and coordinated the Loewe Encounters with Dance series as well as the debate conference La Escuela Bolera hoy (Teatro Real, 2009).

She is a frequent lecturer and expert teacher in Anthropology and History of Dance and regularly publishes articles in the specialized press; since 2012 she has been a contributor to El Cultural.