Pau Aran Gimeno
Born in Barcelona, Pau Aran Gimeno began his career at the age of eleven with Latin American dance, standard, jazz, modern dance and classical ballet. He completed his studies at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza ‘Mariemma’ in Madrid and later at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen before joining the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in 2005, as a permanent member until 2020 and later as a guest until 2022. His artistic collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui also began in 2020 and continues to this day. Pau has also worked with other choreographers such as Theo Clinkard, Alan Lucien Øyen, Antonio Ruz, Stefan Jovanović and Jorge Puerta Armenta. From 2013, he began his independent choreographic creations, which are usually developed through interdisciplinary collective work and creative workshops. His pieces include Avui em veus, demà seré invisible (2013); Tres maneras and Mimosa (2016); Notes on Life (2019), produced in Yokohama; Brocken and Ich bin nicht nur ein Körper, aber wenn du willst, kann ich tanzen (2019), both for the format ‘Underground’ by Tanztheater Wuppertal; Lettre d'amour (2020), co-produced by the GREC Festival in Barcelona, with Consuelo Trujillo and Alberto Conejero; Un cadavre exquis II (2022), premièred at the Teatro Español with José Troncoso and Seeking the Truth (2023) for Deltebre Dansa.