︎VANESA AIBAR
is a dancer and creator, and develops her flamenco work into a modern, free, aesthetic dance with eviable technical qualitites, as defined by specialized critics. The culmination of her way of understanding dance comes with Sierpe (2019), her first solo show, in which she combines her fascination for Spanish folklore with a reflection on femininity. They are followed by Liminal (2019) and Áspid (2020) a pas de deux together with guitarist José Torres Vicente and who has been awarded the Best Show for Non-Conventional Spaces Award by the Association of Dance Professionals in Andalusia. In his latest projects, he follows a line of research through association with artists from other disciplines. Thus, in 2021, together with Sara Cano, he is a resident artist of the Teatros del Canal and together they create the scenic proposal Every Night and with percussionist Enric Monfort premieres, after two years of experimentation, La Reina del Metal. As a choreographer, in addition to her solo projects, EviscerArte, El Espejo -a piece created for the Mobile Dance Company of Seville and awarded at the III Tetuán District Choreographic Contest in Madrid- and Mujer en Azul awarded at the XVI Choreographic Contest of Flamenco from Madrid with the First Prize for Solo Choreography. He collaborates with artists such as Carmen Linares, Andrés Marín and Blanca Li, Eva Yerbabuena or Mayte Martín and the Royal Concertgebouw.
︎ENRIC MONFORT
is a dutch/spanish percussionist, composer and creator, musician with a long experience in the classic, contemporary and crossover scenes.
After his studies in Castellón with Josep Vicent (where he graduated Cum Laude), the Amsterdam Percussion group in the Netherlands and Emmanuel Séjourné in Luxembourg, Monfort has established himself as a versatile musician who creates and works in a wide variety of fields. He has also specialized in South Indian rhythmic techniques applied to contemporary music and is a professor of rhythmic complexity, multi-percussion and chamber music at Percusons Percussion Academy (Valencia) and Art of the Collective Imagination (Izmir). Based in Amsterdam, he has been a regular contributor to Slagwerk den Haag since 2008 and the Club Guy & Roni dance company. He is a member of the Black Pencil, Duometrie and Postland, and collaborates with most top Dutch and Spanish ensembles and orchestras, and, as a soloist, in Germany, Denmark, China, South Korea, Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain and Austria. His musical interest and restlessness have led him to collaborate with various artists and groups, such as B.C. Manjunath, Shaun Tan, Veenfabriek, Raphael Vanoli, Arcángel, Timuçin Sahin or Louis Aguirre and a long list of composers. Alone, his proposals range from the Library of Noises and Sounds, with Jose Antonio Portillo; Earth, with Antonio Canales, Jorge Pardo and Eva Durán; Latitud Sud, Tales from Outer Suburbia, and, recently, La Reina del Metal, together with the choreographer Vanesa Aibar. In addition to his own projects, he composes for theater, dance and film. His compositions and installations are generally defined by a strong poetic approach and the use of spatialization of sound as a dramaturgical element.
︎GUILLERMO WEICKERT
is a choreographer, stage director, performer and teacher of contemporary dance with a long professional career marked by a deep and passionate curiosity about the potential of stage creation as a cultural asset and a tool for social transformation.
Trained as an actor at the Instituto del Teatro de Sevilla and as a dancer at the Centro Andaluz de Danza, he specialized as a creative interpreter in the Choreographic Creation Workshops of the Junta de Andalucía that Juan Antonio Maesso devised and directed and later, also received a scholarship from the Junta de Andalucía in the company Metros directed by Ramón Oller in Barcelona. This double approach to the performing arts from theater and dance marks from the beginning his interest in the "artistic boundaries" those borders, active margins where the different disciplines intersect and where difference and close coexistence generate intense and fruitful friction. creative. He creates shows like Días Pasan Cosas, Lirio entre Espinas, Parece Nada, IUSISUSU? or Go With The Flow, who have been present in some of the most relevant programs and festivals on the European scene. He also directs and choreographs for other artists and companies such as CDN, Marta Pazos, Deborah Light, Teresa Navarrete, or Ana Morales. Also as a performer, she works for some of the most relevant creators and companies on the national and European scene, always trying to expand and make the boundaries between dance and theater more flexible.
︎DAVID MONTERO
is a playwright, stage director and actor, according to the standard names for his work, but he has preferred to define himself for a long time as "inventor and stage performer, bad cantaor and agitator".
Graduated in Journalism from the University of Seville and in Dramatic Art (specializing in textual interpretation) from ESAD in Seville, he furthered his studies at the TNT Theater Research Laboratory and with very diverse teachers. As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Alfonso Zurro, Pepa Gamboa or Antonio Álamo and in cinema, his intervention The world is his stands out. He has directed or done the dramaturgy for shows such as End of the game, Happy dances for sad people, Rosa, metal and Ash (Finalist for the Max Awards), Los Invitados (Jerez Festival Critics Award), La Judía de Toledo, La casa ardiendo or Si Yo Fuera Madre. His text Insomnios won the Carlos Arniches award, he co-wrote the script for the film No. A flamenco tale by José Luis Tirado, he invents and coordinates the stage agitation project 'We have lived below our possibilities'. In addition, he is a visiting professor in the Master of Live Show at the University of Seville, gives workshops and conferences on dramaturgy and stage creation, writes for eldiario.es and makes, together with Javier Berger, the dramaturgy podcast 'Drama or what'. He is increasingly interested in a way of understanding theater as a generator of reality devices: machines, actions or words that are inserted into life and dialogue with/within it. His latest works and projects are framed here: turismointerior and EX (The end of the simulacrum).