Winner of the 2024 National Dance Prize, Luz Arcas is a dancer, choreographer and stage director. She founded the La Phármaco Company in 2009.

Her most recent creations are Tierras raras and Morphine (Nana para Emmy Hennings). Her previous work has been compiled in two projects: Bekristen/Tríptico de la prosperidad (2019- 2023), featuring the pieces La domesticación, Somos la guerra and La buena obra, and Ciclo de los milagros (2020- 2022), featuring the pieces Toná, Trilla and Mariana.

She has choreographed for the Víctor Ullate Ballet (2018), the Compañía Nacional de Danza de El Salvador (2019 and 2021), and the Peruvian Institute of Consumption and New Environment (IPCNA) (2021). She has choreographed the opera Rigoletto (2023), directed by Miguel del Arco. She has directed and choreographed the work Bordo Poniente, produced by Guadalajara University, the International Book Fair of that same city, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the Directorate of Legal Affairs of Mexico City (DAJU) (Mexico, 2024).

As stage director, she has created Todas las santas (2022), in collaboration with the Salvadoran actresses Egly Larreynaga and Alicia Chong, and Psicosis 4.48 (2023), co-produced by the Teatro Español de Madrid. The protagonist, Natalia Huarte, received the Max Award for Best Actress (2024) for the latter.

She has produced artistic projects in India (National School of Drama, New Delhi, 2015) and Equatorial Guinea (Malabo, 2015 - 2016) and is the author of the book Pensé que bailar me salvaría, published by Contintametienes.

Arcas has also received the 2nd Godot Award for Best Dance Work for Mariana (2023), and was a finalist in the 2023 Talía Awards for Best Female Dance Performer.  She was a finalist in the 2022 Max Awards, in various categories, with Somos la guerra, and for Best Dance Performer with Kaspar Hauser. El huérfano de Europa in 2017. She has received the Ojo Crítico de Danza Award (2015) and Best Dance Performer prize at the Lorca Awards that same year. She has also won the Injuve Award (2009) and the Málaga Crea Award (2009).
 

Based in Madrid, Kor’sia is an artists’ collective directed by choreographers Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo, in collaboration with the researcher Giuseppe Dagostino and the playwright and lecturer in Performing Arts, Agnès López-Río.

Their work is grounded in the body as a tool for thought, emotion, and transformation, with the aim of activating performative devices capable of imagining possible new modes of existence.

Their artistic horizons extend beyond their own creations, with collaborations that include the Nederlands Dans Theater, the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, the Theater Luzern, the Bern Ballet, the Opéra National du Rhin, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Das Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and the Opéra Grand Avignon, among others.

Their works have graced major international stages such as the Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot, Tanz im August, the Grec Festival de Barcelona, the Mercat de les Flors, and La Biennale di Venezia, among others.

Their creation Mont Ventoux (2023) earned them the prestigious Fedora – Van Cleef & Arpels Ballet Prize, the Max Prize for Best Dance Show, and was named as Best Show of the Year by Time Out.