Bárbara Bañuelos Ojeda

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Barbara was born in Burgos, Spain in 1980. She studied dance at Carmen Senra Studio and drama at the Cristina Rota University (2000 – 2005). She continued her dance study at the Pineapple Studio in London. When she returned to Madrid she attended workshops with Marten Spangber, Rabih Mroue, Haim Adri and Roger Bernat. At the same time, she began performing across Europe, including performances in Budapest, Utrecht, Paris, Lisbon, and Madrid. Her work included collaborations with artists such as La Ribot, Juan Dominguez, Cuqui Jerez, Xavier Le Roy, and Roger Bernat. Her project 90 dB was funded by a grant from La Casa Encendida and Aula Estrella Casero at Universidad de Alcala de Henares. Barbara uses movement to question and illuminate dance conventionalities. Creating a new language of dance, Barbara plays with audience perceptions, misconceptions and assumptions about the body and movement. Using movement as a method for personal transparency, she thinks with her body to explore the machine and human elements of existence. Barbara has a one-night performance at the Live Shit festival 2008 at the Chocolate Factory Theater. The work, Scrapping, includes a live dance performance with a video by Ignacio Martin for Spanish production company USER T38. A modern reinvention of the myth of Orpheus, Scrapping depicts the dance, seduction and communication between the nymph and the Cyclops played by a dancer and a crane. The piece holds a mirror to the mechanistic direction of humans and society, using movement to study the boundary between human and machine. Barbara lives, studies and performs in Europe and the United States.