Amaia Elizaran

Amaia Elizaran is a Basque dancer and choreographer who has created seven original contemporary dance pieces and participated in different cultural projects over the last ten years. Born on 1992 in Tolosa (Basque country), she began her classical dance training at the Ekintza school. In 2008, after receiving a scholarship from the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, she studied at the Mariemma Royal Professional Dance Conservatory, where she graduated in contemporary dance (2012-2013) and obtained the Virginia Valero Award for her career, as well as an honorable mention. Since graduating, she has worked with choreographers such as James Wilton, John Ross, Jessica Kennedy, Iker Arrue, Jon Maya, Iris Heitzinger, Hilde Koch, and Judith Argomániz. As of 2015, she has been working on her own projects under the name of Amaia Elizaran. Her creations include RAW (2016), POOL (2017), BLOCK (2018), MAR (2019), OUT (2020), ARIMA (2022), and IHIR (2023). In 2020, she participated in Óró, a performing arts project that fuses different artistic disciplines and diverse cultures of minority languages within the Galway 2020 (Ireland), European Cultural Capital. Amaia currently combines the development of her artistic project with her work at the Rouge Elea company, and collaborates with Alos Quartet, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Oreka Tx.

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