Compañías Madrid
As part of its commitment to the companies of Madrid, the Centro Coreográfico Canal provides below a list of all the professional dance groups in the Region of Madrid, covering a broad range of styles, for professionals and promoters from all over the world.
Company name: Ahmed Karetti
Artistic direction: Ahmed Karetti
Style: Urban dance
Hip-hop dancer and choreographer and circus arts performer with international tours under his belt, he is the artistic director of the companies HipJazzhop in France and El peso del alma and 3K in Spain.
Company name: aïda colmenero dïaz
Artistic direction: aïda colmenero dïaz
Style: Contemporary
Aïda is a multidisciplinary creator, with practically her entire career developed abroad. Her latest creations are the project Ella Poema, which just premiered at Barcelona’s Mercat de les Flors.
Company name: Apiedeguerra
Artistic direction: Marina Barba
Style: Contemporary
It started in 2014 and has created: Ahora 100 años, Ingenua figura and Nubes y lluvia. Joining dance, theatre and music, to narrate European cultural-historic events.
Company name: Aracaladanza
Artistic direction: Enrique Cabrera
Style: Contemporary
Founded in 1995, Aracaladanza is a world leader in high quality medium and large format shows for family audiences. Its works, coproduced by important European and Asian theatres, provide stable and quality employment.
Company name: Arnau Pérez
Artistic direction: Arnau Pérez de la Fuente
Style: Contemporary
Dance company established in Madrid. Its pieces are developed using a contemporary language with an urban flair.
Company name: Babirusa Danza
Artistic direction: Beatriz Palenzuela Martínez
Style: Contemporary
Since its creation, Babirusa Danza – founded by Beatriz Palenzuela and Rafael de la Lastra – has premiered diverse productions for theatres and non-conventional spaces, melding contemporary dance, physical theatre, and videodance.
Company name: Barbara Fritsche Dance Project
Artistic direction: Barbara Fritsche
Style: Contemporary
Barbara Fritsche Dance Project is an art project created by German choreographer and dancer Barbara Fritsche, currently a resident of Madrid. Her last piece, Vasos llenos, premiered at the ULDC Festival at the Sanchinarro Cultural Centre (2018).
Company name: Begoña Quiñones y Verónica Garzón
Artistic direction: Begoña Quiñones & Verónica Garzón
Style: Contemporary
Repertoire pieces awarded at the Choreography Competition of the International Contemporary Dance Festival 18MASDANZA 2013, the 1st National Choreography Competition, Tetuán District, 2014, and at the 32nd Madrid Choreography Competition 2018.
Company name: Camille Hanson
Artistic direction: Camille Hanson
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer Camille Hanson has been working with visual artist Juan Carlos Arévalo since 2008, merging dance and audio-visuals into original works that have been acclaimed both within Spain and internationally, due to their ecological and social commitments.
Company name: Caminantes Danza-Pepa Sanz & José Merino
Artistic direction: Pepa Sanz & José Merino
Style: Dance theatre
This company arose due to the desire to tell stories exploring the nature of the human being via movement, working within contemporary flamenco. The aim of their creations is to make a round trip journey from the real to the imaginary.
Company name: CaraBdanza
Artistic direction: Gonzalo Díaz
Style: Classical / Neoclassical dance
CaraBdanza has been working on the national panorama for over 5 years now, and is part of the programming for festivals and the state performing arts network, with a wide range of neoclassical and contemporary dance repertoire for all ages.
Company name: Carmelo Segura & Company
Artistic direction: Carmelo Segura
Style: Contemporary
Carmelo Segura is a choreographer and artistic director based in Madrid, who works as a guest choreographer for companies in different countries. An observer of life, she builds and creates poetry in movement. Versatile and avant-garde with styles.
Company name: Carmen Fumero cía
Artistic direction: Carmen Fumero & Miguel Zomas
Style: Contemporary
Carmen and Miguel create their own projects and also collaborate as performers with other companies. Their pieces have been presented at festivals including the Acieloabierto Network, Danza a Escena, the Network of Alternative Theatres and Jacob’s Pillow.
Company name: Castro Romero Flamenco
Artistic direction: Rosario Castro Romero & Ricardo Castro Romero
Style: Flamenco
Flamenco, contemporary dance and theatre that has taken them as guest choreographers and artists to theatres such as the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Stanislavsky and Mikhailovsky, and international events with personas from the Paris Opera, Royal Ballet and ABT, to name just a few.
Company name: Cia Natalia Fernandes
Artistic direction: Natalia Fernandes
Style: Contemporary
Natalia Fernandes is a Brazilian choreographer and performer with Spanish nationality. She studied dance in Brazil and has worked in several countries, including Germany, the USA, Portugal, Morocco and Jordan, but is now developing her creations in Spain.
Company name: Cia. Daniel Abreu
Artistic direction: Daniel Abreu
Style: Contemporary
Contemporary dance company with 60 plus creations since 2003. Among many other honours, he won the National Dance Award in 2014 for Creation.
Company name: Cía. Julio Ruiz
Artistic direction: Julio Ruiz
Style: Flamenco
Born in Germany in 1993, his honours include the Outstanding Dancer Award. Its productions are BULA and 1993, directed by Daniel Doña with Rubén Olmo as a guest choreographer.
Company name: Cia. Maite Larrañeta
Artistic direction: Maite Larrañeta Gazpio
Style: Dance theatre
Her work revolves around identity and recovering sensoriality. Exploring the links between the public and private arenas, the body and thought, is her breeding ground for proposing collective movement experiences.
Company name: Cia. Nikita Anishchenko
Artistic direction: Nikita Anishchenko
Style: Contemporary
Nikita Anishchenko graduated from the Carmen Roche Professional Dance Conservatory in Madrid. She now works as a freelance dancer and choreographer. Since 2019, she has been a member of Miguel Ángel Punzano’s company Tejido Conectivo.
Company name: Cía.Cielo rasO
Artistic direction: Igor Calonge Martínez
Style: Contemporary
Contemporary dance company founded in 2009. Supported since 2010 by the Basque Ministry of Culture, in 2014 it was included on the consolidation programme for dance companies. It is also supported by the cultural division of the District Council of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Etxepare Institute, Donostia Kultura-Gazteszena, Dantzagunea, and DSS 2016.
Company name: Co-Lapso
Artistic direction: Miguel Ballarín Barrachina
Style: Urban dance
Choreographic and historiographic research company, into the theories and practices of contemporary performing arts. Otherwise, contemporary urban dance.
Company name: Compañía Antonio Gades
Artistic direction: Stella Arauzo
Style: Spanish dance
The company Antonio Gades, founded in 1963 – and a resident company at Getafe since 2006 – takes Gades’ performances around the world, one of the great powerhouses of Spanish and flamenco dance. He showcases the upholding of the Gadesian school.
Company name: Compañía Antonio Ruz
Artistic direction: Antonio Ruz
Style: Contemporary
Founded in 2010, his multidisciplinary pieces, including No Drama, Recreo.01, Ignoto, Ojo, Libera Me!, Vaivén, À L’espagnole, Recreo.02, Beautiful Beach, Double Bach and Presente have been performed in Spain, Europe, Africa and South America.
Company name: Compañía de Danza «Iker Gómez – Teatro Físico»
Artistic direction: Iker Gómez
Style: Contemporary
As a choreographer, he has created over 20 productions in some 12 countries, imbued with a choreographic language loaded with an overwhelming physical vitality from a meticulous bodily poetry.
Company name: Compañía de Danza A Nuestro Ritmo
Artistic direction: Isabel Olavide Plaza
Style: Flamenco
The company was founded in 2001 with the desire to stage different creative processes done by dancers with Down’s syndrome, using flamenco and a commitment to diversity in the world of art.
Company name: Compañía de Sara Calero
Artistic direction: Sara Calero Hernández
Style: Spanish dance
One of today’s leading benchmarks in reviving Spanish and flamenco dance, awarded at the Choreography Competition of Madrid and at the Jerez Festival. She founded her company in 2010.
Company name: Compañía Embrujo
Artistic direction: Pedro Fernández Embrujo
Style: Flamenco
Its last work Lota, the Women of Coal, created at the Canal Choreography Centre, has been on the programme for two years at the Community of Madrid Theatre Network, has done two international tours, and has obtained two awards, from the Spanish Critics’ Circle and the Dance Academy Awards.
Company name: Compañía Manuel Liñán
Artistic direction: Manuel Liñán
Style: Flamenco
After years of researching new trends, this bailaor and choreographer leans toward carrying on tradition and taking it to unbelievable heights, between genius and simplicity, putting him at the edge of the flamenco avant-garde.
Company name: Compañía Olga Pericet
Artistic direction: Olga Pericet
Style: Flamenco
International creator, this bailaora and choreographer sips from tradition and launches herself into the abyss of the never-seen with shows that beat with flamenco opposites: darkness and light, the feminine and masculine, disturbing and beautiful.
Company name: Compañía Pepa Molina
Artistic direction: Pepa Molina
Style: Flamenco
The Compañía Pepa Molina (2004) view dance as the communicative art that can make people reflect, while moving and exciting them, conveying feelings.
Company name: Dani Pannullo Dancetheatre Co.
Artistic direction: Dani Pannullo
Style: Urban dance
Contemporary urban dance company that incorporates new street languages and different urban sport styles into its performances, including calisthenics, parkour and football freestyle.
Company name: Daniel Doña Compañía de Danza
Artistic direction: Daniel Doña García
Style: Spanish dance
Crossing the formal borders of artistic creation, somewhere between a revived Spanish dance, flamenco and the most contemporary dance imaginable, travelling through uncorseted and unlimited artistic terrains. MAX Best Male Dance Performer in 2019.
Company name: Danza Down. Compañia Elias Lafuente
Artistic direction: Elías Lafuente Escrig
Style: Classical / neoclassical dance
Shows created with a clear line of execution, in which the dancers in the different choreographies perform under the codes and parameters of academic dance, with coherent and meticulous choreographic discourses.
Company name: David Vento Dance Theater
Artistic direction: David Ventosa Fuertes
Style: Urban dance
Contemporary dance, breakdancing, circus arts, physical theatre, together with musician Silberius de Ura-Neønymus, was honoured with the FETEN 2020 Award for the best evening performance, 1st Prize for the 2018 Young Creators of Madrid and UrbanFACYL 2018.
Company name: dSyR, Cía de danza
Artistic direction: Juan Manuel Prieto Pérez
Style: Spanish dance
Spanish and flamenco dance company founded in 2014 and based in Torrejón de Ardoz. Winner of the Teatro de Rojas Awards and several nominations to the MAX awards.
Company name: El Curro DT
Artistic direction: El Curro DT
Style: Dance theatre
El Curro DT is a dance-theatre company from Madrid that – with its 15 pieces, 42 stage works and 9 collaborations – has performed at numerous shows, competitions and festivals throughout practically all of Spain.
Company name: El Manisero
Artistic direction: Vicente Colomar Hernández
Style: Experimental
Choreographer, director and performer who also develops his artistic pursuits in the field of installation and video creation. He received support from institutions including Paris’s Centre National de la Dance (CND), Brussel’s PARTS, and Madrid’s Naves Matadero.
Company name: Elena Córdoba
Artistic direction: Elena Córdoba de Oya
Style: Contemporary
Her oeuvre is constructed from a detailed observation of the body, the axis and subject matter for her work. Her career has been tightly linked to the city of Madrid since 1990 and supported by Spanish and international official institutions.
Company name: Elephant in the Black Box
Artistic direction: Jean Philippe Dury
Style: Classical / neoclassical dance
Created in 2013, the company has artists from diverse countries. Elegance, exactitude, fluidity and excellence are the trademarks of EBB, which experiments with contemporary scenic creations and topical subjects.
Company name: EnClaveDanza
Artistic direction: Cristina Masson
Style: Contemporary
It produces the documentary Danzantes. International artistic collaborations. Works with companies with disabilities. Receives support from the Community of Madrid and INAEM.
Company name: EnCompañía
Artistic direction: Víctor Martín & Daniel Ramos
Style: Spanish dance
Former members of the BNE and members of Manuel Liñán’s ¡VIVA!, they are part of the new generation, with impeccable Spanish and flamenco dance technique, but with an absolutely modern vision and energy that makes it totally modern.
Company name: Entertainment Flamenco
Artistic direction: Cristian Pérez
Style: Spanish dance
Entertainment Flamenco, Spanish dance and flamenco company. It works by projects, to disseminate its style in every possible setting.
Company name: Esther Rodríguez-Barbero
Artistic direction: Esther Rodríguez-Barbero
Style: Contemporary
Stage creator who resides between Madrid and Brussels. Her career crosses through different artistic contexts to activate the presence of the body and spatial relations.
Company name: Fernando López
Artistic direction: Fernando López
Style: Flamenco
Since 2009, Fernando López (Madrid, 1990) has developed his contemporary choreographic creation endeavours, using resources from flamenco and creating bridges between academic research, artistic practice and gender activism.
Company name: Fritsch Company
Artistic direction: Gabriela Martín León
Style: Contemporary
Fritsch Company is the professional company of the Maite León Psico Ballet Foundation. It pursues the labour integration of people with functional diversity via the performing arts.
Company name: Full Time Company
Artistic direction: Fabian Thomé
Style: Contemporary
The aim of the FT Company, created by director and choreographer Fabián Thomé, is to investigate dance through a moment, a sound, an emotion… to send a versatile message from a point of connection.
Company name: G9Danza
Artistic direction: Ana Llopis, Arancha Hoyos, Blanca Fdez Reina, Inmaculada Freire, Raquel Cordero, Patricia Monzó, Yolanda Ponce, Victoria Glez Jurado
Style: Spanish dance
Company founded in 2012, which has created two performances: 9solo9 and Tela, catola… Danza Española!!!, with choreography by Alejandro Molinero, are popular or folk games brought to the stage via the language of dance.
Company name: Guadalupe Torres
Artistic direction: Guadalupe Torres Trabas
Style: Flamenco
Rising gem of the modern flamenco panorama. She has been awarded three times at the Madrid Choreography Competition. She founded her company in 2007 and, since then, has produced four shows that have toured both in Spain and abroad.
Company name: HumanDanceProject
Artistic direction: Jesús Pastor
Style: Contemporary
The company premiered in 2008, presenting its shows at different performance spaces and at Spanish and international festivals. Its repertoire as of today is made up of seven choreographies.
Company name: HURyCAN
Artistic direction: Arthur Bernard Bazin & Candelaria Antelo
Style: Dance theatre
Baptized in 2013, HURyCAN is a creation and human relations project that confirmed the communicative need of movement, its boundaries and its personal and emotional sides.
Company name: Ibérica de Danza
Artistic direction: Manuel Segovia
Style: Spanish dance
Created in 1993 by Manuel Segovia and Violeta Ruiz, the company is characterised by research, defence and recreation of the extensive and rich Spanish dance heritage.
Company name: Instituto Stocos
Artistic direction: Muriel Romero & Pablo Palacio
Style: Contemporary
Instituto Stocos is a dance company centred on the analysis and development of interactions between body gestures, sound and visual imagery.
Company name: Janet Novás
Artistic direction: Janet Novás
Style: Contemporary
Galician dancer and choreographer, resident of Madrid since 2001.
Company name: Jesús Rubio Gamo
Artistic direction: Jesús Rubio Gamo
Style: Contemporary
Madrid dancer and choreographer. His noteworthy pieces include Now That We are Not Too Old Yet (Aerowaves 2018) and Gran Bolero, a coproduction of Teatros del Canal and Mercat dels Flors, performed by 6 dancers from Madrid and 6 from Barcelona.
Company name: José Barrios
Artistic direction: José Barrios
Style: Flamenco
For many years now, José Barrios has combined his work as María Pagés’s assistant with his creations for the Japanese Parque España. He has toured Spain, the USA, Cuba, and other countries with his own company.
Company name: Juan Carlos Avecilla Cía Danza
Artistic direction: Juan Carlos Avecilla
Style: Spanish dance
His first piece was Melómano. In 2016 he created Tic Tac Toe (First Prize in Choreography at the Madrid Competition in 2016, candidate for the 2018 MAX award for Best New Performance, and five nominations for the Andalusian PAD Awards in 2018). In 2019 he was an artist-in-residence for Creencias at the Canal Choreography Centre. Candidate for the 2020 MAX Awards in three categories.
Company name: Koke Armero
Artistic direction: Koke Armero
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer and resident of Madrid. Since his premiere with the company La Phármaco, he has created several works and codirected with other companies. He is currently working with the Ugne Dievaite Company as a choreographer, and is creating a solo piece.
Company name: Kor’sia
Artistic direction: Mattia Russo, Antonio de Rosa
Style: Dance theatre
Group that arose from the need to use the body to communicate and make themselves visible as creators and performers. They feel an urgency to exploit a language – that of the body – that transcends the limits of verbal possibilities.
Company name: La Clá
Artistic direction: Helena Berrozpe, Pilar Duque
Style: Contemporary
Dance theatre for audiences from 0 to 100, from early childhood to adulthood. Topical subject matter with a social and environmental commitment.
Company name: La Permanente, Paloma Díaz
Artistic direction: Paloma Díaz
Style: Dance theatre
Artistic project by Paloma Díaz, dancer, actress and choreographer always seeking and developing her own language.
Company name: La Phármaco
Artistic direction: Luz Arcas
Style: Contemporary
La Phármaco has received several awards: El Ojo Crítico Dance Award 2015, Lorca Best Female Dance Performer 2015 Award, Finalist for Best Female Dance Performer at the Max Awards 2017, Injuve Award 2009 and Málaga Crea Award 2009.
Company name: La Quebrá
Artistic direction: Irene García
Style: Contemporary
La Quebrá received the First Prize at the Sabadell Choreography Competition in 2016 and Second Place at the Vic Choreography Competition that same year. In 2018 it was the finalist for the Dance Award at the Institut del Teatro with Get No, with which it is touring Spain now. In 2020, it is presenting Pla!stic, a multidisciplinary family show.
Company name: Laimperfecta
Artistic direction: Alberto Alonso & Clara Pampyn
Style: Contemporary
Group residing in Madrid, created in 2016 by Alberto Alonso and Clara Pampyn with the purpose of transferring our artistic concerns about the body and everything stemming from it to the stage.
Company name: Larumbe Danza
Artistic direction: Juan de Torres & Daniela Merlo
Style: Contemporary
Resident company of Coslada since 2001 and with a career of over 20 years devoted to disseminating and supporting contemporary dance, for its integration into society, as a thriving cultural reality and a participative and educational tool.
Company name: Losdedae
Artistic direction: Chevi Muraday
Style: Contemporary
Chevi Muraday (National Dance Prize 2006) has directed this company since 1997, creating his own language that crosses the boundaries between movement and words.
Company name: Lucía de Miguel
Artistic direction: Lucía de Miguel (Lucía Mancheño Sánchez)
Style: Flamenco
Born in Huelva and works at tablaos including Las Carboneras and Villa Rosa. She was honoured with First Prize at the Young Flamenco Artists Competition of Granada. Her productions are Triangular (2010), Ruido blanco (2014) and Concordia (2017), with the collaboration of José Maldonado.
Company name: Lucía Marote
Artistic direction: Lucía Marote Trejos
Style: Contemporary
Dancer and creator from Costa Rica. Her investigations start from the search for honesty in discourse and confidence in the body and dance as a language and relational strategy. She also works in research and teaching.
Company name: Lucio A. Baglivo – Lab Project
Artistic direction: Lucio A. Baglivo
Style: Contemporary
Lucio A. Baglivo is an actor, dancer, acrobat, dance teacher and director/choreographer. His performance projects seek to develop his own language and a unique stage poetry, maximising all the senses on the stage.
Company name: Manuel Rodríguez
Artistic direction: Manuel Rodríguez
Style: Contemporary
He creates his works via different artistic disciplines and formats that revolve around dance and the visual arts.
Company name: Manuela Barrero DlcAos
Artistic direction: Manuela Barrero
Style: Contemporary
DlcAos was founded in 2016, premiering I’ll Be Your Mirror (Pavón Teatro Kamikaze Madrid, 2017), which has travelled to Bremen, Berlin and other Spanish festivals. In 2018, it was a resident company at the National Dance Company, with her second piece, ‘ z è b r e ‘.
Company name: María Casares
Artistic direction: María Casares González
Style: Contemporary
María Casares has worked as a creator since 2016. Through her pieces she seeks to use movement as a tool for thought, to produce both emotion and empathy, as well as reflection and critical thought.
Company name: María de Dueñas Cía
Artistic direction: María de Dueñas López
Style: Contemporary
Master’s degree from University of Castilla-La Mancha. Notable works include Betwixt and I See the Problem Not the Solution (awarded at the Madrid Choreography Competition). In collaboration with Inma Marín, she created Las tres muertes de Tristán, which received Aid for Choreographic Creation from the Community of Madrid 2017-2018. She collaborates with Matías Daporta.
Company name: María Juncal
Artistic direction: María Juncal
Style: Flamenco
Winner of the Desplante, Gades and Artistic Excellence awards, to name just a few. She has travelled the world with her company. Mastery of excellent technique and personality.
Company name: Matías Daporta
Artistic direction: Matías Daporta
Style: Experimental
His most relevant artistic project is #spanishwashing. He runs the festival Me gustas pixelad_, on performing arts and videogames at La Casa Encendida. He works for Graner on the Aguablanda project. He is an advisor at FECED.
Company name: Melania Olcina
Artistic direction: Melania Olcina
Style: Contemporary
Melania Olcina is a performer, choreographer and video artist.
Company name: Mercedes Pedroche
Artistic direction: Mercedes Pedroche
Style: Contemporary
Mercedes Pedroche took off as a stage creator in 2006. She produces hybrid pieces in which dance and theatre nourish each other, and she understands art as a tool for reflection and social transformation.
Company name: Metamorphosis Dance
Artistic direction: Iratxe Ansa e Igor Bacovich
Style: Contemporary
The choreographers and directors of this company are: Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich.
Company name: Mey-Ling Bisogno Physical Theatre
Artistic direction: Mey-Ling Bisogno
Style: Dance theatre
She has built her career on a journey with several stages, which have included the cities of Caracas, Miami, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris and Madrid. Mey-Ling has developed an extremely unique language, and has a repertoire of over 35 choreographies.
Company name: Milagros Galiano
Artistic direction: Milagros Galiano
Style: Contemporary
Dancer, choreographer and teacher. She trained at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and later joined the Víctor Ullate Company as a dancer. Her choreographies have been seen at Surgemadrid ’19, the Madrid Choreography Competition ’15, CICBU-NY’ 18, TAC ’19, Emprendescena ’19, FIVER Festival ’19 and the Circula19 Teatro Maestranza Project.
Company name: No bautizados
Artistic direction: Katia Humenyuk & Rolando Salamé
Style: Contemporary
We founded our company in 2018, although we had already worked together on several projects. In 2019 we launched our invisible piece, which was the finalist at 33 CCM and toured Spain, which was received extremely well by audiences.
Company name: Ogmia
Artistic direction: Eduardo Vallejo Pinto
Style: Contemporary
Ogmia is the new and innovative world of choreographer Eduardo Vallejo Pinto, which creates spaces and stories for this contemporary dance company based on his investigations into the origin of movement and his personal vision of the individual.
Company name: Paula Comitre
Artistic direction: Paula Comitre Juez
Style: Flamenco
After being a member of the Ballet Flamenco of Andalusia and the companies of Rafaela Carrasco and David Coria, she also works for different Spanish tablaos. Paula Comitre, born in 1994, premiered her first performance at the 14th Festival of Jerez.
Company name: Paula Quintana
Artistic direction: Paula Quintana
Style: Experimental
Creator-dancer-actress, she investigates her own style, in which layers of meanings and languages are superimposed, always seeking a visceral connection with viewers, cloaked in contemporary drama.
Company name: Pilar Villanueva L.A.N.1
Artistic direction: Pilar Villanueva
Style: Contemporary
Pilar Villanueva L.A.N.1 is a multidisciplinary company (contemporary dance, circus, video, poetry), which since it was founded in 2008 has premiered over 16 pieces in the United States and Spain.
Company name: Proyecto Lanza
Artistic direction: Cristian Martín Cano
Style: Spanish dance
Proyecto Lanza is a Spanish dance company with contemporary roots directed by Cristian Martín, an experienced dancer and young creator, considered one of the greatest and most promising talents on the national emerging scene.
Company name: Rajatabla Danza
Artistic direction: Esther Tablas
Style: Spanish dance
Founded in 2007 by Esther Tablas and Antonio C. Guijosa, until 2013 the company produced both theatre and dance productions. In 2013, Rajatabla became exclusively focused on dance, while keeping its ideas and shared aesthetics of both performing arts.
Company name: Rolando Salamé
Artistic direction: Rolando Salamé
Style: Dance theatre
Actor Rolando Salamé has worked professionally in dance, theatre and physical theatre in Europe and Latin America.
Company name: Sara Cano Compañía de Danza
Artistic direction: Sara Cano Durán
Style: Folk / Neo Folk
Created in 2014, the Sara Cano Cía de Danza was founded as a creation space in which to find her own working style between the conceptual nature of contemporary dance and the viscerality of Spanish dance.
Company name: Somosdanza
Artistic direction: Lucía Bernardo Suárez & Cristina Henríquez Laurent
Style: Contemporary
Somosdanza is the artistic union of creators Lucía Bernardo Suárez and Cristina Henríquez Laurent. In its long career – since 2008 – they have produced stage and educational projects, specialising in the popularisation and dissemination of contemporary dance.
Company name: Tejido Conectivo
Artistic direction: Miguel Ángel Punzano & Andrea Amor
Style: Contemporary
Tejido Conectivo was created in 2012, as a platform for research through the body and movement, providing training, collaborating with artists and companies, and producing its own works.
Company name: The Colectivo
Artistic direction: Victoria P. Miranda
Style: Contemporary
New company format by choreographer, dancer and teacher at CSDMA, Victoria P. Miranda.
Company name: The Little Queens
Artistic direction: Mamen Agüera, La Reina Madre
Style: Dance theatre
The company unifies disciplines and composes them to create the dance document, stage creations based on biographical testimonies. Danced histories.
Company name: Twins Experiment
Artistic direction: Ainhoa Hernández Escudero & Laura Ramírez
Style: Experimental
Twins Experiment was founded in 2014 by Ainhoa Hernández Escudero and Laura Ramírez. This choreography collective does physical work that is closely linked to friendship, life, affections and attachments.
Company name: Ugne Dievaite
Artistic direction: Ugne Dievaite
Style: Contemporary
This contemporary dance company resides in Madrid and has close ties to Lithuania. Since it was founded in 2012, it has worked with artists from both countries. To date, it has seven pieces it has performed and received awards for in different European countries.