Acerca de
Natalia Jimenez
Jaén 1980
Dancer, choreographer, teacher, Shiatsu therapist, activist for the improvement of rights for dance professionals as president of the Andalusian Dance Association, PAD for four years and in other collective movements such as LaBoldina with a gender and permaculture perspective. Creator of Group La Bolsa (Grouping of international dance creators involved in the search for performative practices involved in the search for performative practices in live creation).
Direction and design of SEMANA SANA (Conference of movement arts and the body), in Alanís de la Sierra, Seville. Director and choreographer of the program Aula de creación coreográfica in the course 2023 of the Agencia de Instituciones Culturales de la Junta de Andalucía (Agency of Cultural Institutions of the Junta de Andalucía).
Her last scenic creation GEOMETRY OF THE EXPERIENCE with premiere in the season 23/24 of the Central Theater in collaboration with the percussionist and improviser Lucia Martinez and the dancers Victor Zambrana, Ana Katalin Some of her previous creations in collaboration are: WOOLF (2021/22) a co-production of the Mercat de les flor and with premiere Central Theater, AULA (2019/20).
Natalia Jiménez;Jose Luis de Blas, RETRATOS ERRANTES GroupLaBolsa y Cia MalPelo (2018), LAOBRAVACIA ( 2015-16) Jorge Gallardo; Natalia Jiménez, LA MEDIDA DEL DESORDEN ( 2014-15) Thomas Hauert; Group LaBolsa, PROYECTO CONJUGACIONES ( 2013-14) Jorge Gallardo;Natalia Jiménez, L- ENTES (2011-12) Natalia Jiménez;Iris Heitzinger, MUY FRÁGIL ( 2010) Destinatarias;Cia. Movement direction in the show Los Árboles (An Andalusian Chekhov) and El gallinero (An Andalusian Strindberg) of Teatro Resistente written by the playwright José Luis de Blas Correa, in the Creation FRENIA and ORGIA of La Rara and in the artistic accompaniment of creative processes of current creators. Choreographer invited in the City and Care program of the City Council of Seville, Meeting of women No Solo Musas organized by the Diputación de Sevilla, speaker at the Professional Conference for dance in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Alumbranza at the Festival de Otoño de Jaén.
As a performer she received the Escenarios Sevilla 2013 award for her performance in Lirio entre Espinas by Guillermo Weickert and PAD 2015 award for her performance in Júbilo by Natalia Jiménez ; Jorge Gallardo. As a director she received the Escenarios Sevilla 2021 award, shared with José Luis de Blas, Lola Botello and Eva Rodriguez. He works with other creators such as: Irene Cantero, Guillermo Weickert, Abraham Hurtado, Aitana Cordero, Brigitte Vasallo, Jeremy Wade, Ex Nihilo, Vértebro, Angels Margarit/Cia. Mudances, Senzatempo, Bebeto Cidra, Guido Tuveri, Cia metros, Vértebro, Juan Luis Matilla, Sergi Gómez, Gaspar Alloza, Alvaro Garrido, Arnaud
Clerc, Quim Bigas, Clara Tena, Victoria Macarte, ZA! Leonor Leal, Victor Zambrana and Felix Arjona.
For the last 20 years, she has been giving workshops in different dance training and creation centers to professionals and amateurs with different approaches. She generates and creates pedagogical artistic spaces for transformation through the experience of the creative process.
An artistic trajectory involved in projects that actively respond to social inequalities:
UtOpía Interior Patios Project, Barcelona, Art for Change, La Caixa.
TRINUS show at the Escena Mobile 2021 Festival in Seville.
Meeting of Women of the Performing Arts No Solo Musas of the Diputación de Sevilla.
Direction and coordination of SEMANA SANA (Conference of movement and body arts) in Alanís de la Sierra, Seville.
Creator and mediator in Propiamol, a project focused on the prevention of violence through dance with the creator and therapist Felix Arjona and the cultural mediator Paola. F. Zurbarán.
Participates in Proyecto TeatroDentro (theater in Quatro Camins prison) with Eva Garcia and Thomas Louvat.
Facilitator and movement direction in Transit_art (Association of people with functional diversity) in Barcelona.
Researcher together with the anthropologist and gender specialist Leticia Sánchez Moy in the CONJUGACIONES Project on identity, gender issues and territory that takes shape in the shows Práctica en la frontera, Júbilo and Manifiesto en la frontera, with strong repercussion and visibility in the Museo de mujeres de Costa Rica and MACBA, Barcelona.
Invited as dramaturgies from the body to Dramaturgos entre dramaturgias, project directed by Soledad Gallardo from @ La Moebius, Huelva.
Facilitator at Festival Sicodanza, Chantada, Galicia.
Regular teacher at Espai Tragant-dansa, Barcelona.
Eix Festival (dance and improvisation), Barcelona.
Centre de creació La Caldera, Barcelona.
Guest teacher at the professional dance conservatories of Cordoba, Malaga, Granada, Seville and Valencia, Malaga, Granada, Seville and Valencia.
Guest teacher at Centro Andaluz de Danza de Sevilla.
Guest teacher at Barcelona New Year Dance Festival, Apoteósico Festival, Cádiz.
Content creation and coordination of Tierras Frescas (Dance, Water,
Sustainability) with the support of Festival Global Water Dances and Anna Katalina@Sustainable Bodies, among others.
Design and coordination in the programs MEDANZOTOA (training program), DANCIBERIA (cross-border program) and IMPROVERTEBRACIÓN of the PAD Association.