Fugas + Serenity Suite Matxalen Bilbao Company

The piece questions the idea of the group and formulates new forms of relationship, articulating different types of dependence. It unfolds different situations based on the same concept. The five dancers progress together. Sometimes linked, sometimes separated, but always close. In a playful tone, they evolve with precision through the

music by Chopin and Bach, creating lucid chaos.

Best Dance Piece 2018 at "La danza inunda Santander" (Dance Floods Santander) – La Espiral Contemporánea (Santander Contemporary Dance Festival)

Artistic credits

Direction and Choreography: Matxalen Bilbao

Cast: Nekane Mendizabal, Miren Lizeaga, Aiala Echegaray, Natalia García, Nerea Martínez

Music: Chopin, Bach

Costumes: Java Vintage

Residences: La Fundicion, Utopian, CDART

Production: Infinita escena

Subsidized by: Basque Government Department of Culture

A piece of great artistic maturity, both in its choreography and its performance. The theme of the "passage of time" runs through the entire piece, subtly, without gravity, without nostalgia. A duet in which Matxalen continues to demonstrate her expertise in the management of "space-time." With this work, she has broken new ground that she had not previously explored: transformations of the face, insertion of texts.

An extremely moving duo with a very discreet expressiveness mixed with abstraction. A generous dance, inhabited and very sober at the same time; a dance that goes to the essential and radiates without fuss.

Artistic credits

Address: Matxalen Bilbao

Cast: Natalia García, Matxalen Bilbao

Original Music: Itziar Madariaga

Lighting Design: David Alcorta

Texts: Adriana Barestein

Photos Video: Itxaso Beistegui

Production: Isabel Jiménez Infinita Escena

Subsidized by: Basque Government

Artistic residencies: La FundicIOn, Utopian, Mallandain Ballet, Azkuna Zentroa, Kultur Leioa

Acknowledgments: Espacio Espiral Santander.

Dancer, teacher, and creator, she is one of the names that invariably comes up when talking about Basque contemporary dance. She has danced for the companies "Forros" (La Fundición) Bilbao, "Con buen pie" (Bilbao), and "Damián Muñoz." In 2004, she was a finalist in the Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Competition (Gran Canaria) in the solo category.

Since 1998, she has been creating on her own, developing a personal vocabulary. Interested in deepening and developing her own thinking, she continues to rigorously and methodically pursue her interests, charting a coherent path.

Her creations have been presented at prestigious national and international festivals such as Regards Croisés (Biarritz), BAD (Bilbao), Festival de Artes Performativas Y#10 Covilha (Portugal), Dantzaldia (Bilbao), Cuerpo y Ciudad (Buenos Aires), Festival 3D (Madrid), and others.Open to collaboration with other creators, she works with the Traversée Company in Biarritz. Resident choreographer for the Atalak 2.0 project by Dantza Konpainia in February 2018.

Teaching is an important part of her career. For more than 20 years, she has continued to train dancers in the Basque Country and has been invited as a teacher to dance festivals and schools where she gives workshops.