Company

Nueveochenta Aerial Dance

company based on Madrid

Founded in 2017 by the initiative of its artistic director, Juan Leiba, with the aim to investigate and create its own language between contemporary dance and aerial dance. Is the resident company at “Espacio que vuela”, its center of study and creation located at the center of Madrid.

Distinguished at:

Also presentations at:
Las Navidades del Price 2018 / Teatro Circo Price – Madrid.
Festival La Muralla en Danza 2018 / Baluarte De Guadalupe – Pamplona.

También ha actuado en sitios diversos como:

Teatro Paco Rabal 2018 al 2020 / Beta Pública y UMD – Madrid.
BAaD 2019 / Glasgow – Escocia.

MadCool Festival 2019 / Madrid.
Got Talent 2018 / TeleCinco – Madrid.

Besides working in TV commercials for brands as: Movistar, Schweppes, Disney Channel and a participation in the video clip of La Casa Azul (Nadie pudo volar).

Let us tell you a secret.

The name “Nueveochenta” was inspired in the cipher 9,822, which is the acceleration of a body under the influence of the gravitational force. Nobody on the planet Earth is exempt of this force.

We are mass under gravitational acceleration.

We are contemporary dance in the air.

We are Nueveochenta.

Who are we

Juan Leiba

Director artístico – fundador de Nueveochenta Aerial Dance Company y coreógrafo con amplia experiencia internacional. Ha trabajado para The Place – Londres, Baryshnikov Art Center – New York, Nederlands Dans Theater, Teatro Real – Madrid, entre otros.

Juan Leiba ha sido nombrado como «Next Generation of Vertical Dance” en la conferencia internacional de Portrait and Landscapes, escogido como 1 de las 12 figuras más influyentes en su categoría dentro del panorama de la danza vertical en el mundo.
Ha representado a España en Vertical Dance Fusion, la primer convención de danza vertical en Alemania, invitado a impartir su técnica a otros profesionales de la danza vertical durante 4 días.
Recientemente ha tenido una participación en un libro escrito por dos eminencias y referentes de la danza vertical a nivel internacional: Wanda Moretti (Il Post Vertical Dance Company – Italia) y Kate Lawrence (Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence – UK); invitado por su labor y aporte como artista de la nueva generación del panorama actual de la danza vertical.

Interpreter in 25 productions, is the choreographer of 7 of them. Formed in Contemporary Dance with great teachers in his country of origin, Argentina. His training in aerial dance with harness started in “Aérea”, the first school at world level, directed by the choreographer Brenda Angiel, with whom he learned her method and participated three and a half years as dancer in that aerial dance company. Other teachers that influenced his training with harness are: Leonardo Haedo, Ana Armas and Cristina Txiouras. He has 15 years of experience teaching regular and intensive courses of contemporary dance and aerial dance with harness. In 2015 creates Vuela Danza Aérea, the 1st school of aerial dance with harness in Madrid, and the only one in Spain, dedicated to the integral training in this specific technique.

Alejandra Pérez Izquierdo

Licensed in Psychology of Education (UAM). Formed in contemporary dance, classic dance and Jazz in Madrid. Trained as aerial dancer with harness in Vuela Danza Aérea and as instructor of Pilates Suelo (FEDA) AND Pilates studio (FEPS). In 2013 initiates as a teacher with workshops on therapy dance with PCI, contemporary dance and of social values and human rights through dance until now. In 2016 started giving classes at Vuela Danza Aérea and continued her training with vertical dance for teachers, Wanda Moretti method in Il Posto (Venice, Italy) and with Magalie Lanriot ( Lisbon University, Portugal). At the same time Alejandra performed at different shows of Aerial dance with harness. (Beta Pública, Mad Cool Festival, La Muralla en Danza, Kalerki Festival, Veranos de la Villa 2020,etc.). At present, works as pilates instructor, dancer, performer and choreographer. She is part of Nueveochenta Aerial Dance Company and Ad Astra Aerial Dance Compañny (France).

Sara Mohino Harris

Dancer of Contemporary Dance since her youth, at present she develops her activity in aerial dance with harness since 2008 , this was born from the combination of her two passions: dance and mountain escalade.Starts her training self taught and affirms it with different courses in companies as : Cia de Hecho and Vuela Danza Aérea. She gave courses of aerial dance with harness in the IFAC (International Festival of Art and Construction), in 2014, Burgos. Intensive courses in the nave RaRo12 (Cáceres). Receives the Certificate of Wanda Moretti Method for Vertical dance teaching (Venice, 2019). At present she works in Espacio que Vuela (Madrid), training students.

Alejandra Deza Moreno

Trying to understand who her body is and get to know its language. Graduated in Visual Arts and Contemporary Dance. At present studies her Master in Art Therapy, ISEP, Madrid and the Master in Contemporary Circus, UNIARTS-DOCH, Stockholm. Was part of the Teatro Físico company Iker Gómez. Participated in other companies as La Fura dels Baus y La Glo Zirko. Interpreter in diverse shows of theatre and Festivals as Mad Cool, Teatro Apolo (Madrid), La Muralla en Danza (Pamplona), Navidades del Circo Price (Madrid), Cirkus Mania (Estocolmo), Veranos de la Villa (Madrid), Bilboko Kalealdia (Bilbao). Was part of the V Laboratorio Internacional para la Creación, Divulgación e Investigación de la Danza Aérea de Panamá Aérea con Barbara Foulkes y Eleonora Dall’Asta. Her artistic development has continued to grow (and is in process) thanks to her work in different residences with a great variety of artists and companies: La Teatrería de Ábrego, Les Naves, Bandaloop, Kubbo, Full Radius Dance, Colectivo Lisarco-. Remains open to new experiences.

María Ruiz Castillo

Nacida en la ciudad de Cartagena, es bailarina contemporánea e ilustradora.Graduada en Artes Visuales y Danza con Mención en Danzas Acrobáticas y Técnicas Circenses. Apasionada del arte y de adquirir nuevos conocimientos. Especializada en la danza aérea, trabaja como tal para la compañía Nueveochenta Aerial Dance desde 2018.

Recipient of the Iberescena scholarship to participate in the V International Laboratory for the Creation, Disclosure and Research of Aerial Dance of Panama Aérea with Barbara Foulkes.

Co-director of Sin Ombligo. Besides with Nueveochenta, she has trained with companies like Bandaloop, Kubbo and La Glo Zirko and she had participated in festivals like: “Una Mañana en Danza” in 2018, “La Muralla en Danza” in 2018 and 2019 and “Veranos de la Villa” in 2020.

Del Perera Vidal

Graduated in contemporary dance at Centro de Grado Profesional Àrtemis Dansa and deepened her training in Dansa Ramon Solé y en Area, Espai de Dansa i Creació where she received a scholarship. Has been part as interpreter and creator in the international Project Barca: New Architectures of Memory and Identity at Simon Fraser University, Canadá. Was part of the collective performance Emocions en moviment de Toni Mira, with Atanor Teatre Company and is cofounder of the company ARQ_DNZ9.9. Formed in Aerial and vertical dance at Vuela Danza Aérea at Madrid, in the Wanda Moretti Method,Il Posto de Venecia and with Magalie Lanriot in Lisbon. Performed in the video clip Nunca nadie pudo volar, de La Casa Azul and in DES-pegados as part of the company C9.80 where at present she cooperates in the creative processes.Se ha formado en danza aérea y vertical en Vuela, danza aérea de Madrid, en el método de Wanda Moretti en Il Posto de Venecia y con Magalie Lanriot en Lisboa. Ha aparecido en el videoclip Nunca nadie pudo volar de La Casa Azul y ha actuado en la pieza DES-pegados formando parte de la compañía Nueveochenta con la que actualmente coopera en el proceso de creación.

Jorge Grela

Músico, compositor, productor.

Integró grupos de rock y pop, incursionó en el tango y ritmos folclóricos, investigando la fusión entre los distintos géneros. Entre 1996 y 1998, en Barcelona, España, realiza clínicas en centros culturales y escuelas de música. Se presenta en festivales de la ciudad catalana y París (Francia). En 1998, se acerca a la escena, más específicamente, a la danza, y luego a las artes multimedia orientadas a las nuevas tendencias. A partir de allí surgen nuevas formas de componer música. Desde 2004 dirige el ciclo de música, imágenes y movimiento: Sinestesia que se realiza en los principales espacios culturales de Argentina. En 2012 crea el ciclo “Satélite: instalaciones performáticas audiovisuales” presentándolo en la Universidad de Palermo y en La Fundación Lebensohn en Bs. As. Ambos ciclos fueron premiados por PRODANZA, por la Fundación Telefónica de Argentina y fueron declarados de Interés Cultural por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Compone música experimental para los más reconocidos directores y coreógrafos de la escena: danza y teatro de Sudamérica. Para crear sus obras utiliza instrumentos de música convencionales, sintetizadores, grabaciones de campo, samplers y módulos de efectos que construye él mismo. En 2005 y 2006 sus obras “Sonidos intramuros” y “Deshielo” fueron seleccionadas por el CCEBA y Embajada de España en Argentina para diversas instalaciones audiovisuales. Participó como músico en: Institute for living voice en el Centro Experimental del Teatro Colón de Bs As. (CETC), del III al VI Festival Internacional de Teatro de Bs. As., de III al VII Festival de Danza de Bs. As., III, IV, VI y VII Festival Multimedia Fuga Jurásica (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales), Festivales de CIUDANZA, Festival de danza de Santa Fe, Festival de Teatro de Rafaela, Festival de Teatro Latino de Queens NYC – USA, Festival Barcelona Electrónica, España, Festival Magnética, entre otros.

FIRST HAND

Others say about us

“El vuelo de la Compañía Nueveochenta es de altura, danza única que suspende la mirada y, mas allá del vértigo, levanta el ánimo.”
Enrique Cabrera - Director Compañía Aracaladanza
“Veranos de la Villa 2020 counted in its program with the premiere of the play Solo, con ella y contra ella(...) We never thought that dancing on gravity, the cosmos and the movement of objects, through acrobatic dance, could speak to us about friendship, love, jealousy or sincerity”
Angel Murcia - Deputy Manager, Centro Dramático Nacional (CDN) y Artistic Director of Veranos de la Villa 2020
“Work and style impeccable!" It’s been a pleasure to count on Nueveochenta company in several shows of the UMD and Beta Publica. Their performances are greatly appreciated by the audience!”
Pilar Villanueva - Choreographer and artistic Director of Beta Pública
“Juan Leiba is the accurate expression of effort and meticulous work and his approach at Nueveochenta is able to transmit to all of us the desire to fly while we watch him astonished float between the ground and his emotions”.
Anna y Carlos López Infante - Directores y productores de la Cía Perfordance