Idoia Zabaleta (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1970) is an artist, choreographer and biologist. Thanks to her training in biology and rhythmic gymnastics, she has developed since the early 90s an interdisciplinary practice that integrates dance, choreography, visual arts, curatorship, teaching and cultural management. In 1992, the same year she graduated, she founded Moaré Danza and traveled to The Netherlands, Italy and the U.S. to complete her training in New Dance. From that moment onwards she has performed in different dance companies internationally. Upon her return, she got involved in the emergence of the local New Dance scene, developing ties with independent spaces dedicated to the performing arts since the mid 90s, where she organised and taught the first university extension seminars and courses dedicated to dance and performance. At the beginning of the 2000s she began to cultivate her own vocabulary, creating pieces that have been shown in art institutions such as the Artium Museum, Azkuna Zentroa, EACC, IVAM, MACBA, MNCARS, and in international festivals such as Documenta Fifteen, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Seine-Saint-Denis, Alkantara, Panorama Rio Dança, etc. In 2008 she founded Azala, a creation space located in Lasierra, Alava, which she has directed since then, a practice for which she received the Gure Artea Prize in 2017.
She ends her career in competition rhythmic gymnastics.
She completes her studies at the E.H.U./U.P.V. with a degree in Biology, specialising in Ecosystem Dynamics.
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→ SNDO courses (School for New Dance Development), Amsterdam, as a guest student assisting choreographers who base their practice on improvisation, such as Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, Charlotte Zerbey, and Alessandro Certini.
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→ Dance and improvisation courses by Company Blu in Florence, Italy.
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→ A study programme in New York by the EDDC school (European Dance Development Center) Arnhem, The Netherlands, as a guest student.
→ City bits, a piece co-produced by EDDC (European Dance Development Center) Arnhem, The Netherlands and Company Blu from Florence, Italy, which premiered in New York.
→ La Calle del Imaginero by Mal Pelo.
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→ La canción de Bernabé by Mal Pelo.
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→ Dance classes in the civic centres of Vitoria-Gasteiz, which she initiates.
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→ El rato de José at Situaciones Festival, Cuenca.
→ El rato de José at Monty Theatre, Antwerp, Belgium.
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→ The creation of the Association of Dance Professionals of the Basque Country, ADDE, and she remains a member of the board of directors until 2011.
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→ Dance classes at the Taller de Artes Escénicas, Vitoria-Gasteiz, T.A.E (2004-2008).
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→ Periferiak, a series of conferences on action curated by Ixiar Rozas and Dario Malventti in Bilbao. She moderates a conversation on Nuevos lenguajes: lugar y no lugar between María Muñoz, Ander Lipus and Víctor Nubla.
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ZABALETA,Idoia, GONZÁLEZ, Juan, GÓMEZ, Mako, TOLOSA, Garbiñe, PANIAGUA, Sara, Zeru urdina. Euskal Herritik Mongoliara Zetaren Bidean zehar. Vitoria-Gasteiz, autoedición, 2006.
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→ Escuela de Teatro Barakaldo (2007-2009) and different postgraduate courses and socio-cultural centers.
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The construction works of Azala begin. She creates a limited company with Juan González.
«La expresividad corporea» [Article] in: Álava Newspaper: the newspaper of all the people of Alava = arabar guztion egunkaria, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 04/19/2008, p. 75.
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→ The formation of the Asociación Paralela de Creadores Independientes, APCI, where she remains a member of the board of directors until 2012, when the association is deactivated.
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→ Bicho, eres un bicho at Centro Parraga, Murcia. From 22 to 24 April.
→ Royal dance at Festival Alkantara, Lisbon, Portugal. 1 and 2 June.
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«KREA y AZALA created a programme about contemporary dance named ‘Gorputz Egoerak’» [Recurso web] en ARTEZBLAI, el periódico de las artes escénicas, 2/12/2010.
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→ The creation process of the Kalostra experimental art school in Donostia-San Sebastián.
→ Conversations with / Nor dugu solaskide? At the Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz. 16 July.
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→ The workshop Un cuerpo para dibujar led by Beatriz Setién and Raúl Dominguez, from 17 to 21 August.
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→ Annual Jaia in Azala.
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→ A module of the Máster de Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual in Azala.
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→ Annual Jaia in Azala.
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→ Fisura nº4: zuloak as part of the the Imago Mundi exhibition organised by the University of Seville, Seville.
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DE NAVERÁN, Isabel, Envoltura. Historia y Síncope. Spain: Editorial Caniche, 2021.
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→ Foku.2: Idoia Zabaleta in Atoi, Bilbao.
PÉREZ-ROYO, Victoria. El cuerpo en la mirada. Imagen y visualidad en la escena.
