Pau Aran Gimeno

Pau is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. Born in 1981 in Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona, he began ballroom and jazz dancing as a child before turning to classical, modern, and contemporary dance. He completed his professional training at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma in Madrid and later at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. In addition, he holds a degree in Contemporary Dance Pedagogy from the Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila in Madrid.

In late 2005, at the age of 24, he became a permanent ensemble member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, remaining with the company until the end of the 2019/20 season. During these fifteen years, he performed in more than twenty-five works from Pina Bausch's repertoire. Subsequently, he continued to collaborate with the company as a guest artist. Today, he is part of the restaging and transmission teams of the Pina Bausch Foundation, contributing to the passing on and vivid preservation of Pina Bausch's choreographic legacy.

Since 2020, he has also maintained an ongoing artistic collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Over the course of his career, he has also worked with choreographers and artists such as Theo Clinkard, Alan Lucien Øyen, Antonio Ruz, Stefan Jovanović, and Jorge Puerta Armenta.

Parallel to this, Pau Aran Gimeno has been developing his own choreographic works since 2013, often originating from interdisciplinary and collective creative processes. His works include Avui em veus, demà seré invisible (2013), Tres maneras and Mimosa (2016), Notes on Life (2019), Lettre d’amour (2020), Un cadavre exquis II (2022), and Seeking the Truth (2023).

His recent works include Erinnerungen an den Widerstand (2026) for the ensemble of the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, MYCO (2026), a co-production with the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, Das Gewächshaus (2026) for the Of Curious Nature ensemble in Bremen, and La misma diferencia (2026), a co-production with the Festival Grec and the Centro Danza Matadero.

In his current artistic practice, Pau increasingly combines his long-standing experience as a performer with choreographic work, pedagogy, and intergenerational transmission.

(Information as of November 2026)