When I was little, according to my mum, it took me a long time to walk; it seems I delayed fighting gravity to the fullest. I enjoy being on the ground, as well as the organic movement, the one that seems to come naturally. Sometimes I want to be Trisha Brown, other times Pina Bausch, often I am Pippi Långstrump. I was born in Albacete in August 1979. Currently, I live in Valencia, I have also lived in England, Japan, Mexico, and Lebanon. I took my first dance classes at the age of seven with Pilar Soria. Until I was eighteen, I studied Ballet and Spanish Dance at the Conservatory of Albacete. They said I wasn’t good enough. So, I studied Journalism in Salamanca. In 2001, I moved to Barcelona thanks to a Séneca scholarship. There, I began my training in Contemporary Dance, studies that I completed with a BA at the London Contemporary Dance School (2003-06) and with the Takween program in Beirut (2009). I am persistent and a bit reckless, I must say.
WHO AM I
As a dancer, I believed my career would be different; I wanted to dance in big companies like La Última Vez, Rosas, Akram Khan, Les Ballets C de la B…I aimed high, dreaming is beautiful and free. Once, I worked for Sol Picó in Barcelona, and several times with Silke Wiegand in Germany. In Valencia, I have collaborated with Spanish Brass, Pepa Cases, and La Lola Boreal. In 2007, I worked in a theme park in Japan, undoubtedly the most bizarre thing I’ve done; I had fans and a fixed monthly salary. From 2010 to 2020, I directed the company EnÁmbar Danza, with which I toured nationally and internationally. I conceive, create, and often dance my own pieces. I’m deeply interested in the moving body and its ability to alter time and space, and I enjoy mixing languages (video, text, dance, music). I firmly believe in hybridization. Apart from creating pieces, I handle the production and communication of my work, and for distribution, I rely on Pro21Cultural. I also teach dance and choreographic composition and write things that have nothing to do with dancing.
I understand the stage and the body itself as playful places capable of generating reflection, encounter, and transformation. I’m interested in dance and everything that revolves around it, even what seemingly has nothing to do with it but can activate it. Humor is an ingredient that is often present in my work. It is very evident in Dance is my heroine, an audiovisual and scenic project that explores the relationship between dance and public space and values the cultural legacy of choreographic repertoire by presenting the History of Dance. Another line of my work is based on monstrosity and physical deformation; pieces like Anhel (awarded in 2022 by the Institut Valencià de Cultura and in 2023 by the Associació de Professionals de la Dansa de la C. Valenciana) and ‘NANA’ are examples of this interest. For each project, I seek an artistic team that meets the specific needs of what I envision. On the other hand, it’s rare that I know exactly what I want to do at the beginning. However, there are always two clear driving forces that push me to want to create, well, three: pleasure, pain, and boredom.
DIRECCÓN ARTÍSTICA
Cristina Gómez
+34 607 68 39 58
info@cristinagodance.com
DISTRIBUCIÓN
Fiona Maxence
+34 617 12 54 14
fiona@pro21cultural.com
RESPONSABLE TÉCNICO
Carlos Molina
+34 652 96 25 68
lumierescene@yahoo.es
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