2020
HENRIQUE FURTADO VIEIRA
2020 WINNER
BRUNO MORAIS
2ND PRIZE WINNER
NAVINA NEVERLA
3RD PRIZE WINNER
JURY
FINALISTS
Andre Garcia
Sabrina Sotelo
Joan Volmar
2020 WINNER
2ND PRIZE WINNER
3RD PRIZE WINNER
Andre Garcia
Sabrina Sotelo
Joan Volmar
Manuel Rodríguez Ubeda (Jaén) 1980. He currently lives in Barcelona and develops his work through the performing and visual arts. Since 2006 he has collaborated as a dancer in companies such as La Veronal, James Thierree, Provisional Danza, Emmanuel Eggermond and Sharon Fridman, among others. In his personal work as a creator, Manuel has received several international awards and recognitions, among which are: 1st Prize in the Burgos / NYC Choreography Competition, 1st Prize in the Madrid Choreography Competition, 2nd Prize in the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, Tanzcompany of Graz Opera production at the International Choreography Competition No Ballet, Honorable Mention at the 17th MasDanza Choreographic Competition, 1st Prize at the Gdansk International Solo Dance Contest in Poland. He was nominated twice as a performer and choreographer for the Critics’ Awards and the Butaca de Cataluña awards. It has been supported by institutions and platforms such as Aerowaves, the Cervantes and Ramon Llull Institute, the Catalunya la Pedrera Foundation, the Graner Center for the Creation of Dance and Live Arts, Spanish Cultural Action, the Canal Dance Center, MACBA, Turin Steam Laundromat and Kyoto Art. Japan Center.
A part time PhD student at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain since 2016, Violeta is particularly interested in casting a gaze backwards to the decade of the nineties in Spain, when a group of artists conceived other forms of collective agency to face up to a moment of unbridled economic development and of cultural policies that prioritized the spectacularization of art. In nineties Spain, collaborative practices in art offered resistance to a system based on a constant objectualization of art that responded to a need for manipulation and commoditization. The current juncture in time evinces the importance of casting light on a decade still lacking in critical analysis.
Curator of the residency program ‘The City of Bodies That Indulge in it’ at Planta Alta, Madrid. Along with the curators Lorena Mz. de Corral and María de Corral, I’ve developed the exhibition project selected by the ENAIRE Foundation to inaugurate the Naves de Gamazo and La Arquería, the new headquarters of the foundation in Santander and Madrid. In 2020 I was part of Itiner Network, a collaboration platform between the Community of Madrid and its City Councils with the exhibition ‘Domesticated World, no place for the wild’. ‘How to continue?’ Is an online exhibition hosted by the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima, Perú. This is an exhibition that arises from an epistolary project that was shown at Bisagra last January in Peru.
During 2019, I would like to highlight my participation at the ‘Do / Think educational program. Cultural management as a thought practice’ organized by the Reina Sofía Museum and the Master in International Cultural Management and Social Innovation from the Complutense University of Madrid. In February 2019, together with Jorge Villacorta and Mauricio Freyre, I curated the exhibition ‘Hablar Piedras’ at Espositivo Madrid, consisting of a transdisciplinary project that included artistic residencies and an intense public program that affected the development and composition of the show.
In the past I worked as Curatorial fellow at the Guggenheim Museum in NY, Cultural Coordinator at the Consulate of Spain in Shanghai with the AECID, Assistant Curator in the Spanish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial. Recent projects have been carried out both in the institutional field and in independent spaces in Madrid, Lisbon, Valencia, Trondheim or Buenos Aires. I am a regular contributor to specialized magazines and teach at the online platform Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin.
Artist and independent curator. Founder and director of AADK Spain. As an artist, his work explores the notions of body in crisis, place, behaved and presence. His work has been exhibited in numerous spaces in Europe and America. As performing artists he has collaborated and curated several musicians and sound artists such : Jochen Arbeit, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jan Ferreira (Mosaique), Kris Limback (emitter rmicro), Pablo Fiera, Miquel Casaponsa, Hanh Rowe, Pablo Jordan, Miki Espuma, Mieko Suzuki…. As a curator, “Dissected“ stands out in Mica Moca Project Berlin (2011) , three editions of the “Unexpected“ Berlin Festival (2010/12), Fenomens Festival (2015/17) in Barcelona, IBAFF Film Festival 2016, experimental section, Cumplicidades Festival 2018 Lisbon – International section, among others. He is currently taking up his artistic practices with “Body in Crisis“ 2018/2020, finding new methodologies and presentation formats for his works of the last 10 years together with a group of invited artists. In 2020 he became “AL de La Algaida”, an alter ego that arises to get closer to nature from the voice, the voice prolonged in space, from rural poetry to a global statement. A journey on the territories, as if the groan of the earth could awaken us from our sleeping thoughts. The lament of the world releases through the practices of the voices. Since 2005 he has been collaborating with the artist Meg Stuart as a performer, assistant director and curatorial consultant in several artistic projects of the company Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods. He is an advisory member of the Roberto Cimetta Foundation and to the artistic team of TanzKongress Germany 2019, organized by Kulturstiftung Des Bundes He has filmed and directed the two commissioned films: “A Dream Together” for Tanzkongress2019, “Here and Now” for the Tanz Salon Madrid, organized by Goethe Institut. It’s part of the international group of performing artists gathered by Goethe Institut and directed by Moriah Evans and Meg Stuart.
Formed at the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance Mariemma in Madrid from 1999 to 2004, graduated in Spanish and Flamenco Dance. Since 2004 Fabian has collaborated with great teachers such as Joaquín Cortes, Rafael Amargo, and Lola Greco. He has worked with Franco Dragone for Cirque de Soleil in Macau, with Jean Philippe Dury, Sharon Fridman, Carlos Fernández Fuentes, Arantxa Sagardoy and Alfredo Bravo among many others. Fabian creates in 2014 his own company “Full Time Company”.
Fabián has won the 2nd prize for the best choreography of the XX Spanish Dance and Flamenco Contest (2011), the prize for Best Performance in the Burgos / New York International Choreography Contest (2014) and the first prize of the 33rd choreographic competition of Madrid (2019), has been invited to participate in various festivals such as Madrid en Danza and Masdanza. Since 2015 Fabian has joined choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at Eastman Productions as a dancer and teacher. In parallel, Fabian conducts different workshops, classes, workshops and choreographic creations throughout Europe and America in professional centers such as conservatories, different schools, as well as in professional companies. In 2017 he created UMBRA, in 2018 YÖY premiered at the Warande Theater and he created INVOLUTION for the 180º Dance Center in Madrid and in 2020 he has premiered his work Moi Je Humos in the Teatros del Canal.
Ángeles is the Director of BioCultura, the largest Fair for Ecological Products and Responsible Consumption in Spain, with 36 3 editions in Madrid, 26 in Barcelona, 8 in Valencia, 5 in Bilbao, 3 in Seville and 2 in A Coruña. Angeles is the President of Asociación Vida Sana (created in 1981), declared of Public Utility. She is also the director of the MamaTerra Children’s Ecological Festival, Member of the Permanent Commission of the Municipal Council of the Environment of the Barcelona City Council, Member of various non-governmental organizations, Columnist of The Ecologist Magazine and has written different reports and articles in numerous media in Spain, Europe and Latin America. He has participated in numerous meetings on topics related to organic agriculture, food and consumption, environment, health at the national and international level.