Get involved in the Dance

  26 Sep, 4 Oct and 21 Nov
  18:00 h
  Free admission until full capacity is reached*.
Classroom 2 
*Priority will be given to people with an invitation that can be obtained with the ticket for any of the three shows.

Asómate a la Danza complements the artistic and choreographic proposals of Museo en Danza. In each session of the cycle, a dance expert offers the public the keys to place the choreographer in the context of his discipline, as well as the show in the framework of the author's creative process.

Three creators with different languages to approach the diversity and talent of dance being created today. 

September 26, 18h.

Marta Otazu (dancer, choreographer and teacher of Spanish Dance and Flamenco, expert in dance pedagogy and producer-distributor) will talk about Jesús Carmona and his work.

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 18 years working as a performer with important choreographers and Spanish dance and flamenco companies, he entered the world of production and company management. With 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. 

In recent years, she has participated in several conferences at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the Polytechnic University of Madrid; she has led a project at the University of Malaga together with the renowned architect Atxu Amann (Malagueña synchronized); she has been invited as a speaker at the YPO 2023 meeting for top-level female executives; and she collaborates regularly with the Royal Professional Dance Conservatory Mariemma.

In 2023 she started working with Jesús Carmona and for more than a year, she has been the production manager of his company Danzaor Carmona.

October 4, 18h.

Elna Matamoros (Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, Ballet Master - National Ballet of Spain, Prof. University of the Arts Zurich and contributor to El Cultural) will talk about La Argentina and Antonio Najarro and the ballets presented. 

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.

November 21, 18h.

Ana Cabo (cultural manager and dance expert) will talk about Sharon Fridman and her work.

ANA CABO

Founding partner of Consultoría 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, guest professor at the University of Navarra (Audiovisual Communication Degree, 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 Elephant in the Black Box Company, an international company 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.