The company began to take shape thanks to the residencies of the Canal Dance Centre, where Carmen Fumero created Ironía, which was premiered in the theater Teato Pradillo in Madrid in 2011. In 2013 she created MONTANDO CABOS within the framework of Artists in Residency at La Casa Encendida. After its exhibition at the I Choreographic Competition of the District of Tetuán (Madrid), the work received the prizes for Best Stage Photography awarded by Pedro Arnay and outstanding dancer for the work of Carmen Fumero. The piece was presented at festivals like Canarios Dentro y Fuera (Canarians from Within and Outside), Festival Danzatac, Festival SOS - Madrid Emerging Creation, Festival Nunoff in Barcelona, and the Festival de Jóvenes Creadores - Gracias X Favor festival of young creators in Santander where it won the Audience Award.
In 2014, Carmen Fumero, alongside Miguel Zomas, created the duo …ERAN CASI LAS DOS, a piece which in 2015 obtained 1st place at the 29th Choreographic Competition of Madrid and 1st place at the II Choreographic Competition of Tetuán. It also received the RCH prize for best performance at the 14th Burgos-New York International Choreography Competition. The piece …eran casi las dos was subsequently selected for the Acieloabierto Network in 2016, the Huellas de Andalucía (Footprints of Andalusia) series in 2017, and the Dance on Stage Circuit in 2018. Likewise, she has participated in the I Hop Evolucions at the Mercat de les Flors, the Festival Vila Real in Dansa, the 30th International Dance Madrid, the Festival Baila España 2016 in Bremen (Germany), the Tanec Praha Festival in Prague (Czech Republic), the Summer Festival in Siena (Italy) organized by Marco Batti, the Festival Jacob’s Pillow in Boston (USA), the Festival Rendez vous chez nous in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), and at the B.OOM by B. Dance gala in Taiwan and Malaysia.
In 2017 Carmen Fumero created, alongside Miguel Zomas and Indalecio Seura, the piece UN POCO DE NADIE as part of the residencies programme at Canal Dance Centre in Madrid. This piece was selected at the Acieloabierto Network Circuit in 2018, at the Dance Circuit of the Network of Alternative Circuits in 2019 and at the Dance Marathon Series of the Sala Cuarta Pared in Madrid in 2019. It was also presented at the Festival Jacob’s Pillow in Boston (USA) in 2018.
In 2021, thanks to the research residencies of the Canal Choreography Centre, Carmen Fumero and Miguel Zomas created LAS IDAS whose premiere took place at the Convent of Santo Domingo at the 2021 Escena Patrimonio Festival and the tour of it continued around Spain and abroad in 2023.
In 2023, alongside Dácil González (2019 National Dance Award) and Aurora Artega, Carmen Fumero created the pieces MUTABLE and A OJO. The first of which was premiered on 4 March in the Muses’ Room of the Prado Museum as part of the Ellas Crean Festival, while the second is scheduled to premiere in Garachico (Tenerife) as part of the 2023 Cuadernos Escénicos Festival.
A choreographer and dancer with the Carmen Fumero Company.
Originally from Tenerife, she holds a degree in Choreography and Performance from the “María de Ávila” Higher Conservatoire of Dance in Madrid.
In addition to creating the multi-prize-winning repertoire previously mentioned for her own independent company, Carmen Fumero is greatly esteemed as a performer and she has collaborated with several of the most important companies on the national scene in Spain.
As a performer, she worked for the Company I+D Danza from 2005-2012 directed by Ana Beatriz Alonso in Tenerife, from 2008-2011 for the Sharon Fridman Company on the productions Carlos & Me and Q Project, for the Daniel Abreu Company on the production Negro 2009 and from 2016 until the present, on the productions Venere, Centáuride, Más o menos inquietos. She was also part of the Trasdanza Project as a dancer and teacher in 2012 and 2013. From 2014 to 2020 with the AI-DO Project of Iker Arrue between Madrid and the Basque Country on the productions Because who is perfect? 119.104, Invisible Beauty, Ojos en la nuca, Grooming, Ed. Edgar, Schubert.
From 2015 until the present, she has collaborated as a performer in the Antonio Ruz Company in different productions such as Recreo.02, Batavia, A L´espagnole, Ignoto, the Zarzuela El Barberillo de Lavapiés, the Night of San Juan, AÚN, Recreo.03, and PHARSALIA.
In 2016, she participated in the production of Olvido de Hilo Blanco by the Company 10&10 Danza directed by Mónica Runde and Inés Narváez. She also worked alongside renowned dancers such as Dimo Kirilov and Tamako Akiyama between 2016 and 2018 and on the production Broken Lines directed and choreographed by Dimo Kirilov.
She was part of the Auditorio de Tenerife’s resident Company LAVA directed by Daniel Abreu from August to December 2018, working with the choreographers from La Intrusa Dansa on the creation Beyond and with Fernando Hernando Magadán on the piece Bending the Walls.
From 2019 until present, she has collaborated with the Company La Intrusa with Virginia García/ Damián Muñoz in Barcelona on the productions It´s a Wrap (Kubrick is dead) and Prusik.
In 2021 Carmen was part of the Touchpoint Art Foundation’s Mentor Program directed by Batarita where she created the solo project “Una Ida al Canto” under the mentorship of Batarita and premiered the work 7 BODY.RADICAL International Performing Arts Biennial in Budapest (Hungary). With this piece, she was the winner of the Stray Birds Platform competition in Taipei (Taiwan) where she was invited to perform again in 2023.
Co-choreographer and dancer in the piece Mutable.
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, she undertook Higher dance studies in the speciality of choreography and dance performance techniques.
In 2019, the Ministry of Culture awarded her the National Dance Award in the Performance category.
With over 20 years of professional experience, she has carried out most of her artistic career in Spain, combining her work as a performer with management and production work, and choreographic and teaching projects.
In 1998 she joined the Company 10 & 10 Danza directed by Mónica Runde and Pedro Berdäyes. She worked at the Staatstheater Darmstadt under the direction of Mei Hong Lin (Darmstadt, Germany) and has collaborated with companies such as Cielo Raso (Donosti), Arrieritos (Madrid) and the artistic and social project AI DO Project directed by Iker Arrue, among others.
Since 2009, she has been part of the Company Daniel Abreu. Under his direction, she undertook assistant direction and director of rehearsal jobs at Lava Dance Company, a contemporary creation project at the Auditorio de Tenerife, from 2018 to 2020.
Singer and composer of the piece Mutable.
Aurora Arteaga is a singer and composer. She has an expressive and versatile voice, skill improvising and an imaginative and personal way of writing and arranging music.
She studied cello and flute at conservatoires in Madrid and graduated in History and Sciences of Music and Music Education (UAM). She obtained an Advanced Degree in Music - Jazz Singing at Musikene and moved to the USA to study singing and composition with a Fulbright scholarship.
She graduated with a Master of Music in Jazz Performance at the Manhattan School of Music through a scholarship from AIE and MSM and was the first Spanish woman to complete these studies.
She studied singing with Gretchen Parlato, Theo Bleckmann y Kate McGarry, and composition with Jim McNeely, Phil Markowitz, and Dave Liebman. She undertook further studies in the Somatic Voicework technique with its creator, Jeanie Lovetri, at Baldwin Wallace University.
She completed her training with a Master’s in Voice Disorders (UAH). Since 2003 she has given concerts in Portugal, the USA, France, Finland, Italy, India, and Peru.
She worked as a musician in New York at renowned clubs such as The 55 Bar, Kitano, Cornelia St., Bonafide o Terraza 7, and at the Cervantes Institute, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York Live Arts, and El Taller.
In 2017 she returned to Spain and continued her projects Aurora Arteaga Cuarteto and Khordē, playing in important jazz clubs such as Bogui, Café Central, Clamores and Café Berlín, Jimmy Glass (Valencia), Jazz Filloa (Coruña), Altxerri (San Sebastian), at the Jazz Festival in Madrid, the Jazz Festival in Vitoria, the Jazz Festival in Zaragoza, the Ellas Crean Festival, the Jazz Caja Granada, Assejazz Series, etc.
She teaches singing, combo, and improvisation at the Higher Centre of Creative Music. She has taught jazz singing, combo, and auditory education at the Higher Conservatoire of Seville. And she teaches singing and jazz courses for the Jazz Cultural Theatre, the Tenerife Jazz Camp, the La Caixa Foundation, the University of Alicante, the University of Cadiz, Cádiz, and the Jazz Associations of Ponferrada, Cadiz, Jaen, and the Canaries.
Lighting designer and technical director of the Carmen Fumero Company.
Designer and stage lighting technician. He undertook studies in Physics at the University of La Laguna and the University of Barcelona.
Attracted by Contemporary Dance and seeking a way to contribute to it, he decided to contribute through the field of lighting, specialising his work and scope of action on lighting creation for this artistic discipline.
From 2014 to 2018 he was part of the working team of SOLAR. Acción Cultural Sociedad-LugarArte, a non-profit cultural association whose main activity is research, creation, and artistic production aimed at using everyday settings as the natural place for the transmission of symbolic language.
In 2018, alongside the dancers and creators Laura Marrero and Carmen Macías, he set up La Reserva Dance Company, in which movement and light are interwoven through the gestation of creative processes.
The lighting designs he has created notably include Régénère, Y También Mañana, and Tun/La by Carmen Macías, Invisible, La Muerte de Venus and El Vuelo by the Company Daniel Morales, Un poco de nadie and Una ida al canto by the Company Carmen Fumero, Irreverente, Murano y Monstruos by the Company La Reversa, the co-designs with the lighting designer Cristina Jiménez, for Quién Eres, Instrucciones para mejorar la vida, La Miel y Todo lo bueno ocurre en silencio, Provisional Danza, the creation of the piece INA, alongside Paloma Hurtado and Daniel Morales.
In other fields, he has worked on the lighting of exhibition projects in plastic arts such as Cuerpo Presente by Marlon de Azambuja, curated by Dalia Rosa at El Tanque Cultural Space (2017), and Pensar el final compromete el final, by Laura Mesa at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Government of the Canary Islands (2021).
At present, he works regularly with the companies Provisional Danza, the Company Daniel Abreu, the Company Daniel Morales, the Company Carmen Fumero and the Nómada Company.