After graduating in Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Maitane Sarralde discovered dance through improvisation. Since then, she has focused on training and committed herself to the creation and interpretation of contemporary dance, incorporating circus and martial arts.
She discovered vertical dance with Magalie Lanriot in 2016 during the FOR Dance Theatre course at Olga Roriz´s company. Subsequently, she received training at La Faktoria Choreografic Center and Pablo Ibarluzea International School (Corpo Espaço Criação).
She began working in “Ikimilikiliklik” and “AMA” at the Marie de Jongh Company in 2020 and, at the same time, she independently explored the transition between floor dance and harness dance. Driven by her curiosity, she started to develop a language which converses between suspended bodies, rope and word. Her first performance, DESaNUDA, is the outcome of this research.
She currently continues researching into the narrative of the dynamics and the elements governing a “land-less” dance. Based on the mechanics of rigging, she explores the potential of a body that mvoes unhindered between air and earth.
