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Roberto Fratini Serafide
Playwright, teacher and dance theorist
Fratini Serafide is at present teaching Theory of Dance at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa Barcelona (Institut del Teatre) for the Màster Universitari en Estudis Teatrals (Institut del Teatre/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and is a member of the research groups ‘Iconodansa’ and ‘Heterotopías danzadas’, which is based at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. He has given masterclasses, workshops and conferences on theory and dramatic writing at academic and theatrical institutions in Spain and abroad, notably the Universitat de Barcelona, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Université de Lyon, the Mercat de les Flors, the Hochschule der Kunst (Berne), the Tanzhaus (Zürich), the Pôle Sud and UFR Arts (Strasbourg), the Tanzhaus (Düsseldorf), the Tanzquartier (Vienna), the Royaumont Danse (Paris), the Centro di Ricerca per il Teatro (Milan) and the University of Bologna Drama, Art and Music Studies. He has had books, articles and essays published in several magazines in this field, and has been key-note speaker and dramatist for the Modul-Dance Europe project since 2013. He is also the administrator of the Société des Auteurs Suisses training project ‘Dramaturgie Chorégraphique’. Fratini Serafide’s works have been performed in major European dance and theatre festivals, and in 2013 he won the Sebastià Gasch FAD Award.
Rosa Sanz Hermida
Licenciada y doctora en Filología Hispánica
Es licenciada y doctora en Filología Hispánica: Especialidad de Literatura por la Universidad de Oviedo; acreditada desde 2003 por la ANECA para la figura de contratada doctor. Ha sido “Fellowship” de la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Bélgica), “Maître de conférences invité” de la Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Bélgica), investigadora y profesora asociada de la Universidad de Valladolid, profesora adjunta de la Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes y colaboradora en el Máster Universitario en Interpretación e Investigación Musical de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia. Asimismo, ha firmado artículos de crítica musical y danza para los diarios ABC (edición de Castilla y León) y El Norte de Castilla. Desde sus inicios en 2006 forma parte del claustro de la Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Castilla y León.
María Teresa Ferrer Ballester
Doctor of Musicology
Recipient of an Extraordinary Doctorate Award and holder of a scholarship from both the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and from Chapel Hill University (North Carolina, USA), María Teresa Ferrer is a specialist in Spanish Baroque music. She has brought to light an unpublished musical repertoire of that period from festivals of ancient music in Spain (Cuenca Festival of Religious Music) and abroad (Havana, Cuba and Sheffield, UK). Ferrer has taught at the Universities of Valladolid and Católica de Valencia, as well as at the Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona. She was Director of the Masters Degree in Musical Research and Interpretation at the International University of Valencia, where she is currently Director of Arts and Humanities. Ferrer is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Valencian Music Academy, advisor to the Anuario Musical magazine of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [CSIC]), and researcher on the RDI (Research, Development and Innovation) project 'The Musical Heritage of Modern Spain (17th and 18th centuries)' .
Shaday Larios
Director of Microscopía Teatro
Larios has a degree in Literature from the University of Guanajuato and a PhD in Performing Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, where she focused her studies on creative processes based on everyday objects. She is the Director of Microscopía Teatro, a theatre group that utilises small-scale documentary objects, shadows and toys. With associates Los Hermanos Oligor, Microscopía Teatro has been touring for many years with the show 'La máquina de la soledad'. Together with Jomi Oligor and Xavier Bobés, Larios founded the company El Solar. Agencia de detectives de objetos, with which she has explored the interrelationships between objects, memory and community on the stage in various countries. Larios was research adviser for the online Masters course of CENIDI DANZA/Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico. She won the International Prize for the CITRU-Paso de Gato-ARTEZ Theatrical Essay, 2010, and has recently published 'Los objetos vivos. Escenarios de la materia indócil’ with Paso de Gato. Larios has also written various texts for the magazines Conjunto (Cuba), Tierra Adentro and La Tempestad (Mexico) and Double Magazine (published by the Schaubude Theatre, Germany).