ANHEL delves into animal essentiality, the rawness of bodies and the beauty of desire.

A wild and irreverent passage on existence, bonding and vulnerability. A work that travels through hidden, forgotten and disturbing places; and at the same time, a delicate exercise of tenderness, listening and affection.

IVC 2022 VALENCIAN PERFORMING ARTS AWARDS

Best Dance Show

Best Choreographic Direction – Anna Estellés and Cristina Gómez

Best Dancer – Paloma Calderón

FIRST PRIZE IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY COMPETITION BUCLES 2022

Cristina Gómez

Choreographer and dancer from La Mancha based in Valencia since 2010. She holds a degree in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School and a degree in Journalism from the University of Salamanca. She has collaborated with artists such as Sol Picó, Spanish Brass and Silke Wiegand, among others. Between 2008 and 2018 she directed the company EnÁmbar Danza. Her works have been presented at festivals such as Resolution! (London), Interferencias (Mexico), Us The Moon and The Neighbors (Beirut), Dansa València, Mes de Danza (Seville), Cádiz en Danza, Ibero Fest (Tallin), InShadow (Lisbon), etc. Since 2016 she has been a guest teacher at Eva Bertomeu Centro de Danza.. She understands the stage, movement and the body itself as playful spaces for research capable of generating reflection, encounter and transformation. In her pieces, in addition to dance, she often includes other artistic languages such as audiovisual, theatre and performance.

It has been said:

“Anhel is one of the pleasant surprises of the season. A stage duet with a very physical resolution that combines the intimate sincerity of the naked bodies with the elegant presence of two highly attuned performers.“ SARA ESTELLER

“This magical passage, which travels through hidden, forgotten and disturbing places, bets in its beginning on a connection with the most primitive part of being, and culminates with a failed attempt at domestication and sophistication of the bodies, where the two protagonist creatures are given identity by showing their faces.” CULTURPLAZA