When I left in 1976 I left because there were no places to dance in Spain. If there had been, I assure you I would have stayed”.

Nazareth Panadero

If one had to look for a distinctive sign of this Spanish dancer, it is undoubtedly her immeasurable sincerity in life and on stage. In 2014, when she was awarded the National Prize, she commented to the journalist of the newspaper El Confidencial who interviewed her that “dance everywhere is an art that is always behind the others. And in Spain it is even more complicated because we have a certain historical backwardness that is difficult to recover”.

In this second edition of Danza y Diaspora, Nazareth Panadero and María Pagés will talk about dance from the creative point of view but also about the profession, of which they both know so much because they have dedicated their whole lives to it.

Trained in Madrid, Saragossa and Paris, and after her time at the Ballet Theâtre Contemporain d’Angers and the Ballet de Poche, she moved to Wuppertal in 1979 to the Tanztheater Pina Bausch, where she developed her entire career.

Regarding the incorporation to the Tanztheater Pina Bausch, her creative abode, Nazareth Panadero recalls that “Pina invited a man and a woman to participate in her work, us, without knowing that we were a couple. The adventure was so exciting that we went for a year… And my fascination lasts to this day”.

 

Image:  Ulli Weiss