Get involved in the dance

  Thursdays September 25, October 10, November 14
  25 Sept, 17:30 h
   10 Oct and 14 Nov, 6:00 pm

Learning to look at dance is the objective of each of these sessions in which three experts accompany spectators who approach dance to provide keys that allow them to establish links with three of the works that make up this edition and their creators. 

The sessions are aimed specifically at those who subsequently attend the shows in question and take place just before the shows.

FIRST SESSION:

Workshop (floor 1 of the MUN)
Thursday, September 25, 17:30h.
Marius Petipa and Academic Dance
 

ELNA MATAMOROS

Elna Matamoros, (Madrid, 1972) divides her work between the rehearsal room and theoretical research. D. in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts with International Mention from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Master of Arts in Dance Education from New York University as a Fulbright Scholar. With an extensive career as a dance historian, ballet teacher and disseminator of the arts, she is currently a teacher at the Ballet Nacional de España, a contributor to El Cultural and a specialist teacher and guest researcher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2012 she has been choreographic assistant to José Carlos Martínez. Her books include Augusto Bournonville, historia y estilo (Madrid, Akal, 2008) and Dance & Costumes (Berlin, Alexander Verlag, 2021). She is a full academician and president of the Architecture and Fine Arts section of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain.

SECOND SESSION:

MUN Classroom 2
Friday, October 10, 18h.
Lucía Campillo

MARTA OTAZU

With a degree in Dance Pedagogy with an Extraordinary Final Degree Award from the Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila, and a Master's Degree in Cultural Project Management with an Award for the Best Project of the Promotion (2019-2020), Marta Otazu combines the production management of various dance shows with teaching.

After more than 20 years working as a performer with important choreographers and companies of Spanish dance and flamenco, he enters the world of production and management of companies in a sector he knows well. Since founding his own company La Figuranta, he has managed the production of different shows in Los Teatros del Canal, Festival de l`Herencia (Barcelona), Festival de Jerez or Flamenco Festival in London among others.
 

He also directs the training center in Spanish dance and flamenco that also has the brand, a space with more than 50 students in their regular training, which organizes workshops for professionals, lectures and theory classes. 

THIRD SESSION:

Room 2 (floor -1 of the MUN)
Friday, November 14, 18h.
Automatons, robots and breakers

About Irons Skulls Co. and Famulus 4.0
Robots are the heirs of the automatons, mechanical devices that were seen in the traveling shows of the 18th and 19th centuries. Literature collects stories of human-shaped objects coming to life, some are macabre stories, others moral. Robotics is present in science fiction, cinema, comics, but also in restaurants, hotels, factories, hospitals...

In the ballet Coppelia -a light adaptation of Hoffmann's story The Sandman- a doll seemed to come to life. Perhaps it was a hoax, but the desire to create objects ever more similar to humans or other living beings remains intact, amplified today with digital universes, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. It is likely that these robotic ingenuities can already do things better than humans; we can include them in the scene, at home, at work. A robot does not love, but the question is different, since the transfer of affection is done by humans. Who has not cared for a Tamagotchi?

ANA CABO

Founding partner of Cultoría Artes e Industrias Creativas SL, a company specialized in consulting, development and management of cultural, performing arts and creative industries projects and programs. She is currently artistic director of the International Summer Festival of El Escorial of the Community of Madrid, external consultant for the Cabildo de Canarias and for the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid, guest lecturer at the University of Navarra, Degree in Communication, in the subject Promotion and sale of performing arts and guest expert at the María Pagés Choreographic Center. Until 2021 she has designed and coordinated projects for the Elephants in the Black Box Company, a comprehensive and international project dedicated to the production, choreographic creation and promotion of young dance talents. In 2020 she was the artistic director of the Escena Estrena Festival of the Community of Madrid and of Baile de la vida, a dance at the Prado Museum dedicated to the work of Bosch.

She is editor of the first Cuaderno de Creación dedicated to Javier Martín, published by the Museo Universidad de Navarra.