Compañía Eva Yerbabuena

Eva Yerbabuena
“A terrific performer”
The Guardian
“She exposes a beauty in flamenco I doubt any had believed could exist”
Evening Standard
Born in Frankfurt and raised in Ogíjares, a small town in Granada, she is considered “a visionary and masterful dancer” (The Guardian), that is “touched by greatness” (The Times) who embodies “the type of once-in-a- generation artist” (The Independent). She begins to dance because her aunt Encarnita observes that “this girl has got talent” and Eva, with an deep
family effort, begins to take flamenco classes.
Eva Yerbabuena’s work draws on the teachings of artists such as Enrique “El Canastero” , Angustillas “La Mona” , Mariquilla, Mario Maya and Juan García, who taught her choreography and movement in Cuba. In 2001, she was invited by Pina Bausch – with whom she would later have a deep friendship – to dance in Wuppertal (Germany) with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Ana Laguna. Since then, Eva performed annually in Wuppertal until the death of the German choreographer.
In 1998, being only 28 years old, she created her own company. Since then, she has choreographed a dozen shows and received recognition from the public, at a national and international level.
Eva Yerbabuena has participated in different films and documentary series such as Flamenco woman (Mike Figgis, 1996), Hotel (Mike Figgis, 2001), Pulse a stomp (Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, 2002), Flamenco, flamenco (Carlos Saura, 2010) or Why do we dance (VVAA, 2019) and traveled around the world. In fact, she was the first flamenco company invited to perform at the Sydney Opera House.
She has also worked at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Sadler’s Wells and the Barbicane in London, at the City Center in New York, at the Dusseldorf Opera, at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, at the Dubai Opera… as well as in the main theaters of the United States, Chile, New Delhi, Lima, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai…
As a choreographer and stage director, Eva Yerbabuena has participated in Más tiempo que vida (for the Reina
Sofía Professional Dance Conservatory of Granada and the FEX of the Granada Music and Dance Festival in 2018), De la Concepción show (by María Moreno, premiered at the Seville Biennale in 2018) and Lorca y la pasión, a sea of dreams (along with Marina Heredia within the “Lorca and Granada” cycle in the Generalife gardens of the Alhambra in 2019).