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ANDRÉS CORCHERO BIOGRAPHY

Dancer Andrés Corchero, resident of  Catalonia, studied contemporary mime and clowning for theater and circus, and performed with Albert Vidal, Odin Teatret and Shushaku & Dormu Dance. A tireless explorer of body languages, he worked in Japan with Kazuo Ohno and Min Tanaka, dancing in company Mai- Juku (1986–1995). Corchero concurrently performed his own creations internationally,.

1991 in Barcelona, he began a long artistic relationship with poet and translator Feliu Formosa, receiving the National Dance Award of Catalonia for "El bufó sota la tempesta” 2003. With Joan Saura, Agustí Fernández and Liba Villavecchia, Corchero forms the improvisation group IBA, organizing IMPROVISA Festival. He formed the prestigious Raravis dance company (1993-2012) with Rosa Muñoz.

In 2011, Andrés Corchero reunited with Japanese dancer Oguri. Their on-going project "My neighbor Sky" was performed in Electric Lodge, Venice CA, the Creation Center l'Animal a l'esquena, the Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion (Grec Festival de Barcelona 2013), Joan Miró Foundation (Grec Festival de Barcelona 2018) and Teatro Principal, Palma.

He joined Morleigh Steinberg and Oguri’s ARCANE Collective in 2013 to create "Return to Absence", inspired by Samuel Beckett's trilogy. Presented at the Electric Lodge, it premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival, and was performed at NY Live Arts and the Grec Festival of Barcelona 2016.

2015, he danced "Sin respuestas" with musician Ivo Sans, MOCA Barcelona. 2019 he collaborated with the famous singer Silvia Pérez Cruz in “La Relativitat de la Bellesa” at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Classics Festival. January 2020 he premiered "Absences (Padre and Camí de silenci)" for the Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.

He has collaborated with dancers, Hisako Horikawa, Christine Quoiraud, Frank Van de Ven, Angels Margarit and Ana Eulate, María Muñoz and Pep Ramis (Malpelo); musicians Jordi Riera, Horacio Curti, Christoph Irmer, Miguel Poveda, Joan Ollé (director), visual artist Jordi Rocosa, among many others.

Other awards:

Applause Award 2002- Sebastià Gasch Award for the Performing Arts, together with Agustí Fernández, for the piece "A modo de esperanza"

Prize "Tal pas de la tarda 92" of National Radio of Spain for its multidisciplinary works together with Feliu Formosa.