Diana Bonilla
🇪🇸Madrid, Spain
About
Dancer, performer, pedagogue, and organizer from Madrid, Spain. Began dance training in 1996 in classical, Spanish, and flamenco dance before moving into contemporary dance and discovering Contact Improvisation, which she has studied, practiced, taught, and disseminated ever since. Researches the art of improvisation with teachers including Shahar Dor, Keith Hennessy, Julyen Hamilton, Katie Duck, Daniel Lepkoff, Cristiane Boullosa, and David Zambrano. Dancing since 2002 with companies and choreographers including Cristiane Boullosa and Francesc Bravo (Cía Rayo Malayo); since 2009 collaborates as dancer and assistant to choreographer Meyling Bisogno, and since 2008 performs as an improviser/performer with the Omos Uno project (choreographed by Pedro Berdayes since 2019). Teaches CI and has organized CI festivals in Madrid regularly since 2006. Part of the teaching team of CI Training in Madrid and Bilbao (Espacio FCI) since its founding. Has organized EXIN since 2014, with teachers including David Zambrano, Edivaldo Ernesto, Sara Shelton Mann, Meg Stuart, and Guillermo Weickert. Co-organizes Inmersiones CI Festival.
Venue
Espacio FCI· co-director
Madrid
A space for the practice, study and development of Contact Improvisation, improvised dance, contemporary dance and Flying Low, running in Madrid's Lavapiés neighbourhood since 2013. Offers weekly classes at all levels, intensive thematic workshops, and multi-year training programmes aimed both at professionals working with the body and at interested practitioners. Directed by Cristiane Boullosa, with Diana Bonilla as co-director.
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