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Janet Novás. Dancer, actress and teacher, who has been granted Spain’s leading dance awards, including the National Dance Award (2025), the RNE Ojo Crítico Award (2021), the Catalonia Critics’ Award (2021) for best dancer and the Injuve Award (2011) for her creation “Cara pintada”.

Trained in contemporary dance in Madrid, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna, in 2008 she began developing her own dance and performance projects, giving rise to an artistic practice centred on experimentation, research into the body and stage creation.

Her works have been presented at prestigious national and international festivals such as Rencontres Chorégraphiques, the Festival de Marseille, the Festival Nouvelles-Pôle Sud, the Cement Festival, FIDCU (Montevideo), Mercat de les Flors, the Conde Duque Cultural Centre and the Festival de Otoño, amongst others.

She has was selected as an artist-in-residence at El Graner Fàbrica de Creació (Catalonia, 2022–2023), where she developed her latest production, ‘Proto (SN1806)’.

As a choreographer, she directed the movement sequences for the 2014 Max Awards Gala and the Mestre Mateo Awards (Galicia), and has collaborated with artists from other disciplines, such as singer-songwriter Mercedes Peón on the piece "Mercedes máis eu", and fashion designers Zap&Buj on "Imaginé cinco cuerpos y ninguno era o meu", a production by Veranos de la Villa (2019).

​In the world of cinema, she made her debut in 2023 as the lead in Jaione Camborda’s film “O Corno”, which won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival, for which she received the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

She has recently filmed "Harta" by Julia de Paz and "Romería" by Carla Simón, selected for the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival.

Janet Novás combines her work as a dancer, creator and actress with teaching classes and workshops at various centres in Spain, Europe, Latin America and Asia.