2022 WINNERS
2ND PRIZE WINNER
3RD PRIZE WINNER
(Minnesota–Madrid).
Dancer, choreographer and teacher who works between Spain and the United States; producing a constant flow of works acclaimed for their ecological and social commitment.
Hanson has an Honorary Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities, from the Bogliasco Foundation of N.Y.C. Since 2008, she has collaborated with the visual artist, Juan Carlos Arévalo, fusing scenic and site-specific dance with the audiovisual field. His works have been presented at: UN Summit Climate COP25, Ubumuntu Arts Festival, Rwanda, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C., Starlite Festival, Marbella, Festival Spain NOW!, London, Stanford University, California, 8th International Marine Mammal Conference, Paris, IETM International Network for Performing Arts, Valencia, 3rd Congress of the Advancement for Peace, Jerusalem, among others.
Currently, she combines artistic creation with teaching at Stanford University in California, USA, and various dance conservatories in Spain. His latest stage creation, MAKE ME WILD, of dance, ecology and image has premiered within the #SurgeMadrid in autumn 2022.
Profile: linktr.ee/CamilleHanson
Michael Realin graduated in Visual Arts and Dance from the Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, Madrid in 2015, specializing in Physical Theater of Movement. Member of the Joven Ballet de Cámara de Madrid and member of the Theater Research Company of the Alicia Alonso Dance Institute.
He has been working to develop as an integral artist in different disciplines, such as theater, dance, film, directing, and music. She trained in all urban dance disciplines at the Millennium Complex, Los Angeles, The place and Pineapple dance studio, London and Performance Academy and Escuela de Artes Escénicas Empezar de Cien, Madrid.
He was competing in Urban Dances for Spain for three years. Awarded the «Best Featured Dancer Award» at the International Slave Funk Competition. He participated in several Contemporary and Urban Dance festivals throughout Spain.
He was a performer and dancer in the Iker Gómez Contemporary Dance Company participating in different productions (2013-2016). In 2018 he is part of the Young Practitioners at the International Theater Institute, a project with UNESCO. He was also part of the cast of the Spanish dance company Malucos Danza.
In his audiovisual career, he has collaborated with producers from Sony Music Spain, with different current and theatrical musical artists.
As a teacher, he has given workshops on Contemporary Dance, Hip Hop, Body Expression and Physical Theater of Movement. He has been in different schools and dance centers in Madrid giving classes. In 2016 he moved to Salamanca to be a Dance and Theater Professor at the Monk School of Music and Performing Arts, Salamanca.
In 2021, he opened his own School of Dance and Performing Arts in the city of Segovia for educational and artistic purposes.
Superior Professor of Composition, Orchestra Direction, Choir Direction. Violin teacher. He worked in the Music Department of the Community of Madrid until his incorporation (2009) at the head of the Music section of the Teatros del Canal. She is currently the Coordinator of the Canal Choreographic Center and of the Music programming. Uninterruptedly linked with the choreographic center since its inception by Albert Boadella to the present, with Blanca Li, participating in the 14 calls for artist residencies.
Consider this permanent contact with dancers and choreographers a gift, as it is a constant stimulus and a special awareness for musical creation linked to stage movement.
She has actively participated in the promotion of the creative activity of women, (very aware of gender issues) being Vice President of the Women in Music Association (2010-2014) Music Advisor of AC / E, Spanish Cultural Action (2014 and 2015). He is currently part of the board of directors of the Madrid Composers Association. Her works have premiered in different national and international audiences, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Rudolfinum Hall in Prague and the Chamber Hall of the Seoul Art Center, among others.
She has collaborated musically with various dance companies. It is a privilege to see so many choreographies, concerns, successes, achievements and regrets of all these artists whom she considers part of her family born and grow.
In 2021 she has been selected by the SGAE Foundation in collaboration with the AEOS, for the creation of a symphonic work for the Navarra Symphony Orchestra that premiered last September at the Baluarte Foundation in Pamplona and commissioned by the Santander International Festival of her latest work for the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra whose premiere took place last August.
Francisco Javier Vera Manzanares, a 13-year-old Colombian activist, is the founder of the Guardians for Life Environmental Movement, a platform that brings together more than 700 boys and girls from Colombia and that is fighting for the voices of boys and girls to be heard. into account in the great decisions of our time.
In January 2021 he was recognized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for his contribution to building a better society, and in February 2021 he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the European Union Delegation in Colombia.
In March 2022 Editorial Planeta published his first book on climate change «Ask Francisco: What is climate change?»
In April 2022, he was appointed a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Comment No. 26). He has recently participated in the SOS ARONA ATLÁNTICO festival and in COP27.
Rocío García Martínez, is a student in industrial chemical engineering and very involved with nature and the environment.
She has always taken care of Nature. Since 2019 she has been involved in the Mar Menor protection and she has been one of the promoters of the ILP of the Mar Menor and now she is guardian of Law 19/2022 that was achieved thanks to the 640 thousand people who signed and helped the Mar Menor had legal personality.
Today we continue with more work that remains to comply with the law and denounce all the damage done to this fragile ecosystem.