Take a peek at dance

  September 26, October 4, and November 21
  6:00 p.m.
  Free admission until full capacity is reached*
Classroom 2 
*Priority will be given to people with invitations, which can be obtained with a ticket to any of the three shows.

Asómate a la Danza complements the artistic and choreographic offerings of Museo en Danza. In each session of the cycle, a dance expert provides the audience with insights that allow them to situate the choreographer in the context of their discipline, as well as the performance within the framework of the author's creative process.

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

September 26, 6 p.m.

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.

Martha Otazu

With a degree in Dance Education and an Extraordinary Final Degree Award from the María de Ávila Higher Conservatory of Dance, and a master's degree in Cultural Project Management with an Award for Best Project of the Year (2019-2020), Marta Otazu combines production management for various dance shows with teaching.

After more than 18 years working as a performer alongside leading choreographers and Spanish dance and flamenco companies, she entered the world of production and company management. With her own company, La Figuranta, she has managed the production of various shows at Los Teatros del Canal, Festival de l'Herencia (Barcelona), Festival de Jerez, and Flamenco Festival de Londres, among others. She also runs the Spanish dance and flamenco training center that also bears the brand name, a space with more than 50 students in its regular training program, which organizes workshops for professionals, talks, and theory classes. 

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

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

October 4, 6 p.m.

Elna Matamoros (Doctor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, ballet teacher at the Spanish National Ballet, professor at Zurich University of the Arts, and contributor to El Cultural) will talk about Argentina and Antonio Najarro and the ballets being performed. 

ELNA MATAMOROS

Her career highlights include her extensive training with some of the biggest names in dance, and her many years of experience as a ballet teacher and guest instructor. She received her first classical ballet lessons from her mother, Carmina Ocaña, and later studied 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 Art Theory from the Autonomous University of Madrid, a Master of Arts in Dance Education from New York University as a Fulbright scholar, and a degree in Classical Ballet from the Royal Conservatory of Dramatic Art and Dance in Madrid.

She was part of the Spanish National Ballet as a teacher for the company between 2002 and 2012, when, at the request of José Carlos Martínez, she joined the National Dance Company as a répétiteur, returning to the Spanish National Ballet in 2019 as a ballet teacher under the direction of Rubén Olmo.

At the CND, she was responsible for ballets from a wide variety of periods and styles by José Carlos Martínez, George Balanchine, Tony Fabre, Itzik Galili, William Forsythe, and Léonide Massine, among others. She has also been the author and coordinator of the CND's Educational Notebooks collection on authors, styles, ballets, and topics 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 collaborated since 2006, she has programmed and coordinated the Loewe Dance Encounters series as well as the debate La Escuela Bolera hoy (The Bolero School Today) (Teatro Real, 2009).

She is a frequent lecturer and expert teacher in anthropology and dance history and regularly publishes articles in the specialist press; since 2012 she has been a contributor to El Cultural.

November 21, 6 p.m.

Ana Cabo (cultural manager specializing in dance) will talk about Sharon Fridman and his work.

ANA CABO

Founding partner of Consultoría Artes e Industrias Creativas SL, a company specializing in consulting, development, and management of cultural, performing arts, and creative industry projects and programs. She is currently artistic director of the El Escorial International Summer Festival of the Community of Madrid, guest lecturer at the University of Navarra (Audiovisual Communication Degree, in the subject Promotion and Sales 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, dance at the Prado Museum dedicated to the work of Bosch.

She is the editor of the first Cuaderno de Creación (Creation Notebook) dedicated to Javier Martín, published by the University of Navarra Museum.