Marcos Morau (Valencia, 1982) received photography, movement, and theatre instruction in Barcelona, Valencia, and New York. He builds imaginary worlds and landscapes in which movement and images meet and devour each other.
He obtained the top mark in his end-of-degree project and the extraordinary award for creation at the Theatre Institute of Barcelona. His knowledge of art goes beyond dance to other disciplines, such as photography and dramaturgy, and he has an MA in playwriting theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University, and the Theatre Institute.
For over 10 years, he has led La Veronal as director, choreographer and designer of sets, wardrobes and lighting. He has travelled the world presenting his projects at festivals, theatres, and several international settings, such as the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, la Biennale di Venezia, the Festival d'Avignon, the Tanz Im August in Berlin, the Festival RomaEuropa, the SIDance Festival in Seoul and the Sadler s Wells in London, among others.
In addition to his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is a guest performer with several companies and theatres all over the world where he produces new creations, always straddled between performing arts and dance: The Göteborg Opera Ballet, the Rhine Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Scapino Ballet, the Carte Blanche, the Ballet du Lorraine, the National Dance Company, the Lucerne Opera Ballet, among others.
As the youngest winner of the National Dance Award in Spain (2013), Morau's language is a legacy of abstract movement in dance and physical theatre. It is also a powerful body language based on annihilating all organic logic, dissecting it and turning it into a unique identity.
Morau was also awarded the FAD Sebastià Gasch prize, awarded by the FAD Arts and Design Foundation, and the TimeOut Award for the best creator, among others. With his creations, he has attained prizes at several national and international choreographic competitions, such as the Hannover International Choreography Competition, the Choreography Competition of Copenhagen, Madrid, and Masdanza.
In addition to his creative side, Morau combines his creations with teaching, giving classes and workshops based on innovative processes and new drama in conservatoires, series, and universities, such as the Institut del Teatre, the University of the Arts in Strasbourg, and the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
His future is open to new formats and languages in which opera, dance and physical theatre are in closer contact than ever before. He seeks new formats of expression and communication in these modern times of flux and unrest.