MORGANA
Born in Madrid (Spain)
Degree in Digital Sound Post-Production. Dancer and Choreographer since 1994. Co-founder of Excalibur Dance Co. and Director of Nieblas de Avalón Dance School. (www.nieblasdeavalon.com)
At 7 years old, began practicing karate (Shotokan and Shito Ryu), and in the 2003, fencing and wu-shu at Serrato Superior School (saber and sword techniques). She initiated her modern and contemporary dance training in 1991, receiving a grant for winning an important dance contest, and was soon accepted into Ditirambo-Studio’s dance company.
In 1993, she began studying jazz technique with Eva Sanz and Begoña Jiménez at Karen Taft Dance Center, where she would perfect her skills over the next 4 years. It was also this year when she co-founded Excalibur Dance Co., for which she currently serves as choreographer.
In 1998, she began her studies in Middle Eastern dance. Her first teacher was Fathy Andrawis (choreographer of the Egyptian National Ballet) who taught her Egyptian and folkloric styles. She also studied props such as cane, veil, and Isis wings.
In 1999, she was initiated into American tribal style, and using this as a technical base, she specialized in tribal fusion and gothic style. Currently, she is developing her own personal style, in which she combines Middle Eastern dance technique with the technique of modern dance, the discipline of martial arts, the expression of mimic and theater, and an aesthetic influence ranging from Chinese and Japanese culture to science fiction, to the Victorian Era.
In 1993, she began teaching jazz and funk, and in 2001 Middle Eastern dance classes, finally opening her own school, "Nieblas de Avalón," in 2006. It is the pioneer school in tribal fusion and gothic style in Spain, and is also the first school in the country offering 5 levels of "unofficial" Middle Eastern dance training (classical, tribal, fusion, gothic and advanced).
Morgana has participated as a guest dancer in the Solace Live Tour 2007 (Madrid and Barcelona) and at the festivals: GOTHLA 2008, 2009 in Leicester (UK), TribaGoth 2009 in Gothenburg (Sweden). From 2006 to the present, she has been a dancer and instructor at tribal fusion and gothic and martial arts style workshops and seminars throughout Spain and the rest of Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Poland).
Degree in Digital Sound Post-Production. Dancer and Choreographer since 1994. Co-founder of Excalibur Dance Co. and Director of Nieblas de Avalón Dance School. (www.nieblasdeavalon.com)
At 7 years old, began practicing karate (Shotokan and Shito Ryu), and in the 2003, fencing and wu-shu at Serrato Superior School (saber and sword techniques). She initiated her modern and contemporary dance training in 1991, receiving a grant for winning an important dance contest, and was soon accepted into Ditirambo-Studio’s dance company.
In 1993, she began studying jazz technique with Eva Sanz and Begoña Jiménez at Karen Taft Dance Center, where she would perfect her skills over the next 4 years. It was also this year when she co-founded Excalibur Dance Co., for which she currently serves as choreographer.
In 1998, she began her studies in Middle Eastern dance. Her first teacher was Fathy Andrawis (choreographer of the Egyptian National Ballet) who taught her Egyptian and folkloric styles. She also studied props such as cane, veil, and Isis wings.
In 1999, she was initiated into American tribal style, and using this as a technical base, she specialized in tribal fusion and gothic style. Currently, she is developing her own personal style, in which she combines Middle Eastern dance technique with the technique of modern dance, the discipline of martial arts, the expression of mimic and theater, and an aesthetic influence ranging from Chinese and Japanese culture to science fiction, to the Victorian Era.
In 1993, she began teaching jazz and funk, and in 2001 Middle Eastern dance classes, finally opening her own school, "Nieblas de Avalón," in 2006. It is the pioneer school in tribal fusion and gothic style in Spain, and is also the first school in the country offering 5 levels of "unofficial" Middle Eastern dance training (classical, tribal, fusion, gothic and advanced).
Morgana has participated as a guest dancer in the Solace Live Tour 2007 (Madrid and Barcelona) and at the festivals: GOTHLA 2008, 2009 in Leicester (UK), TribaGoth 2009 in Gothenburg (Sweden). From 2006 to the present, she has been a dancer and instructor at tribal fusion and gothic and martial arts style workshops and seminars throughout Spain and the rest of Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Poland).
Lady Mechanika
| Saturday 17 March | 16.00 - 18.00 |
Corporal Dominance and Layering workshop. We work the coordination and isolation and the capacity of moving different parts of the body in different times and with different moves. Locks and pops technique, and ‘robot’ simulation moves. | Intermediate | 11 Spaces BOOKING |
Underworld: Werewolves vs Vampires
| Sunday 18 March | 13.00 - 15.30 |
Are you a vampire or faithful to the wolves? Join us in dancing a fearful battle: two clans fighting in a choreography. Are you as fast and agile as the lords of the night, or as wild an animal as the children of the moon? Find out which side you're on...For all kind of dancers, men, women or semi-beasts ... | Intermediate | 23 Spaces BOOKING |