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La ballesta

Contemporary Dance & Choreography

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Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Zaida Ballesteros Parejo was born in Granada / Spain. She studied dance at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Granada until 2001 and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main until 2004. 2018 she finished her Master in Theatre Studies with the Distance State University (UNED) in Spain.

From 2004 to 2015 she worked as a freelancer as well as a permanent dancer in several theatres for different choreographers. In 2015 she started working as a freelancer dancer, teacher and choreographer.

She has been regularly teaching since 2016 in Mozarteum University, Salzburg and Sasha Waltz & Guest Children’s and Young Company. From 2017 until 2021 she has been working as choreographer and dance teacher in Piccolo Theater Cottbus (DE).

She currently lives in Málaga, Spain, She works as choreographer, lecturer and dancer in Málaga (ES), Germany, Austria and Switzerland, among others for Sasha Waltz & Guest, Mozarteum Salzburg and Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Málaga.

Career

Professional Experience

Dancer:

2023 Los Besos. Aitana Cordero Vico. Santander. ES

Hiraeth & Incisión. C-Art Dance. Carolina Márquez&Carmen G. Jara. ES

2022 In C. Reloaded educational Project. Radial System. Berlin. DE

2021 Riki-Tiki-Tabi. Cottbus. DE

2020 NoBody. Sasha Waltz & Guests. DE
2019 Ema Destinn. Brno. CZ – Cottbus. DE
2018   Körper. Sasha Waltz & Guests. Hannover. DE
2017   Tre Volti. Schwetzinger Festspiele. DE
2016   Romance de Agua y Piedra. Granada ES
Same but Different. Tirol. IT

2015-16 Schauspielhaus Stuttgart
Das kalte Herz nach der Erzählung von Wilhelm Hauff. Armin Petras
Staatsoper Berlin
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny B.Brecht/Kurt Weil

2009-2014 Theater St.Gallen:

Passolini, Alcina, Codex. Marco Santi. Der Mitmacher. Andrea Boll

Eleven. Yossy Berg and Oded Graf

Bulldog Ants. Linda Kapetanea und Jozef Fruzek

Frida Kahlo. Philipp Egli. Magical Road. Anton Lachky

2009 Entre Cielo y tierra. Shambalah Productions.

Collaboration with CEPIA S. José, Costa Rica. (http://www.cepiacostarica.org)

2005-08 Tanztheater Osnabrück:

Spielregeln, Penelope, Verklärte Nacht, Silver, Fairy Queen,

Les Chambres and Bernarda Albas Haus. Marco Santi

Crazy for you by Gershwin and Grand Hotel. Melissa King

Èclats du réel Toula Limnaios. Blindspot Vera Sander

Mond…Days Luc Dunberry

2007 South American Tour. Big in Bombay

Porto Alegre, Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo

Dorky Park/Constanza Macras. Schaubühne Berlin Production

2004 Dialogue 04. Volkspalast. Berlin.

Sasha Waltz and Guests. Iztok Kovac

Three months practicum: Ricercare & Limb´s Theorem

Ballett Frankfurt. William Forsythe

Desperate figures dance theatre.

Speed and Dizziness Nancy SeitzMcintyre. Mainz

Choreographer:

2023 Quartet of an End Announcing the Beginning. Frankfurt. DE
2022 The More Invisible they Become. Piccolo Theater. DE

2021 Fighters. DE

2020 A Luz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z-hIOyxaY
2019   La América Salvaje, Rite of Spring and Huapango.
Assisting G.Galíndez Cruz.
  http://www.filarmonicajovendecolombia.org
2017-18                        JOpera Festival. AT. Carmen from Bizet and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
https://vimeo.com/320832284
https://vimeo.com/231188802

2018-20 Directing. Piccolo JugendTanzCompany. Cottbus. DE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_TK8YVqn6s
https://vimeo.com/324954196

2017 The Wall. Based on Pink Floyd. Cottbus. DE

2016 The Full Monty. Theater Kiel. DE https://vimeo.com/208352056
             Romance de Agua y Piedra. Granada. ES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANVEX1l82Zg
The Rite of Spring. Assisting G.Galíndez Cruz.
  http://www.filarmonicajovendecolombia.org
  An der Arche um Acht. With Nele Neitzke. Mainfranken Theater. Würzburg
2015 How did I learn to LOVE HER.
  Im Weißen Rössl. Landesbühne Nord. DE
2014 Dance and Drum. http://www.cosmicdrums.ch
Scene Choreography “Kleiner Mann was nun”. After Hans
Fallada. With Ingo Putz. SH-Landestheater.

2013 Fairy love song with tail. http://vimeo.com/68289855

2011 French kiss or; Folklore for fou http://vimeo.com/36191161

Education

High school: Classic literatur graduation. (Magna cum laude)

Conservatory and University:
1994-2001 Conservatorio Profesional de danza de Granada. ES

Spanish classic dance, flamenco, ballet.

2001-2004 Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt

am Main (Germany)
Diplom Bühnen-Tänzerin

2015-18 Master of Art in Theatre studies
UNED (Spanish National distance education University)

Singing Education:
2003-2013 HfMDK(Frankfurt) with Katharina Kutsch, and classes with

Eva Schneidereit and Alison Trainer

Languages

Spanish. Native language

English and German. C1 Spoken and Written

French and Italian. B1-2 Spoken

Further Training
Master classes and workshops with William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Louise Lecavalier, David Hernández, Bruno Heynderickx, Alan Barnes, Jan Kodet, José Biondi, Olga Cobos- Peter Mika, Nicole Peisl, Lance Gries, Cesc Gelabert, Iñaki Azpillaga, David Zambrano and Narendra Patil

Video & Dance

Frankfurt (am Main) 2005 Festival Valencia Radio City 05

MAIN HAFEN

Osnabrück 2006 Festival Pool 07. Berlin. Germany

PLANTA 2

Osnabrück 2008

UMDREHEN

news

Present

Primera Persona del plural

zaida marzo 21, 2025

Aida

zaida marzo 17, 2025

Primera Persona del plural

zaida noviembre 18, 2024

La Ballesta Primera Persona del Plural, investiga las relaciones interpersonales…

IRON HORSE

zaida abril 3, 2024

IRON HORSEAllen Ginsberg & Martin Glover «Youth». Music & DramaturgyZai…

Documentary: Connecting Dance for All

zaida octubre 21, 2023

Premiere 28th October 2023. DiDo Dance Rome and Piccolo Theater…

Conservatorio Superior de danza angel pericet

zaida septiembre 16, 2022

Teaching regular courses in Contemporary Dance Technique from 1st September…

Berlin / Stuttgart / St. Gallen / Osnabrück

State Theatre

2005 until 2016

Being part of ensemble and productions in several State Theatres.

She worked as a freelancer as well as a permanent dancer at the theater with companies and choreographers such as: Sasha Waltz and Guest, Iztok Kovac, Constanza Macras, Dieter Heitkamp, Marco Santi at the Osnabrück Theater and at the Sankt Gallen Theater in Switzerland, Melissa King, Toula Limnaos, Vera Sanders, Luc Dunberry, Andrea Boll, Yossy Berg and Oded Graf, Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, Philipp Egli, Anton Lachky.

In 2015 she started working as a freelancer dancer, teacher and choreographer.
She worked as a guest dancer in Schauspielhaus Stuttgart for «Das kalte Herz» after the story by Wilhelm Hauff by Armin Petras and Staatsoper Berlin for «Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny» B.Brecht / Kurt Weil.

La Ballesta. Projects

QUARTET OF AND END ANNOUNCING THE BEGINNING

Choreography

VERSION FRANKFURT. FEB 23

VERSION MÁLAGA. mAY 23

A LUZ. FEB 20

Carmen. Opera. SCHLOSS TABOR 18

French kiss or; Folklore for four. MADRID 11

SOLO

How Did I learn to love her

st. gallen 15 - cologne 17

How did I learnt to love her

With kind support of:

Kanton of St.Gallen Promotion of culture
City of St.Gallen
Ernst Gönner Foundation
Arnold Billwiller Foundation

Sasha Waltz and Guests
Bollwerk

how

As SBH corporation present us, with the help of its collaborator/application on stage, we encounter a number of options. We will design TOGETHER with the public, a moving performance.

The evening suggests a futuristic vision of theatre, approached as a concept, on the verge of extinction. It is a celebration of theatre: as a room to meet, a place for democratic reunion and to share common interests. This evening proposes a dialog between technology and daily life, an inquiry about sensing the surrounding and emotional world, accompanied by myth-poetical pictures.

How far does a technological society shake the private fundaments of an individual: who we are, what we choose to do and when do we start to become part of a fiction. Touching on Artaud philosophical principals, this evening will diagnose the sickness of a society without needs, that denies the intensity of human feelings (both positive and negative) and the necessity for treating it, pulling for a theatrical experience with ritualistic characteristics.