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Antonio Quiles Villanueva

(1974, Tarifa)

Antonio Quiles is a choreographer, teacher, and performer specialized in Inclusive, Community and Educational Dance. He is a member of the AAEE Inclusive Network. The EXPANDED. She investigates in artistic languages of the body and movement to enter into creative processes with diverse collectives.

Alongside his company ALTERATIONS Danza-Teatro investigates community-based artistic creation processes through inclusive creative practices centered on the body and movement as constituent elements of the intimate and social self. Starting from the needs, interests, limitations, and desires of the people with whom it works, it delves into multidisciplinary proposals focused on enhancing the imagination and finding a own poetics as elements of personal and social change.

He is currently the director of the project “The aim of the project ”Moving the Mind, Thinking the Body" is to implement the activity of Contemporary Dance as a regular and sustained activity in Occupational Centers of the Community of Madrid, schools and educational centers, as well as occasional workshops and continues with her own creative projects and artistic projects with her Company. 
With a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, he studied theater and contemporary dance at the CAT and CAD Andalusian Center for Theater and Dance, respectively, at the Theater Academie of the HKU, Utrecht, and specialized in choreography at the Dansacademie ARTEZ Arnhem, Netherlands. He specialises in Dance Integration, mainly through teacher training courses taught by Adam Benjamin in the Netherlands and Switzerland. He holds a CAP (Pedagogical Adaptation Course) from the University of Seville and has completed a course in “Specialisation in Artistic Education, Culture and Citizenship” organised by the OEI and the University of Valladolid.

He has received the PICE Grant for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture for Mexico and Paraguay, the “Art for Change” Grant from Obra Social La Caixa, the +Cultura Artistic Residency from Plena Inclusión Madrid, the “New Production” Grant from the Regional Government of Andalusia, the IBERESCENA Grant for creation, and scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Government of Andalusia for dance studies.

From 2011 to 2020, he worked as a choreographer and performing arts teacher at the DANZA MOBILE Inclusive Arts Occupational Center in Seville. He has been a guest lecturer at the National School of Plastic Arts in Mexico City and has taught on the Master's Degree in Art Therapy and in theater workshops at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. He gives lectures and seminars on inclusive and community dance. He participates in European artistic-educational projects EUROPA+, mainly with the MeetShareDance company.

+ Like Dancer/Performer She has worked with the following companies: i-dance co. (Netherlands), BewegGrund Co. and Influxtanz Co. (Switzerland), Cía. Alicia Sánchez (Mexico City), Cía. Alicia Soto/Hojarasca (Spain), Cía. Pilar Gallegos (Mexico/Italy), SHIFTS -Arts in movement- Co. (Germany/France), TanzBar_Bremen Co. (Germany), as well as on numerous independent projects.

+ Like Teacher believes in art as a form of social cohesion and transformation and considers the performing arts to be powerful tools for raising awareness and normalizing social issues, focusing on the inclusion of groups at risk of social exclusion and people with different abilities through the performing arts. All these aspects are developed in courses, workshops, and creative laboratories for diverse groups in both public and private spaces, such as festivals, dance and theater companies, prisons, universities, schools, associations, occupational centers, mental health associations, music conservatories, and dance schools. He also gives talks and presentations at seminars, festivals, and artistic gatherings.

These are some of the places where he has taught workshops:

  • Workshop with Indepen-Dance Co. at the Gathered Together Festival and The Pearce Institute, Glasgow; Inclusive Contemporary Dance Workshop at Festival Crear en Libertad, Paraguay; Workshop on Creators and Social Diversity at the FEX Festival Extension as part of the 64th Granada International Music and Dance Festival. Workshop at the Ostlichter Kulturfestival Im Leipziger Oste School of Art, Leipzig, Germany, Contemporary Dance Workshop at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Contemporary Dance Workshop at the Lila López Festival, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

+ Like Choreographer He has directed more than 20 works, most of them large-scale, as well as street performances and more experimental pieces linked to action art and for unconventional spaces, presented in more than 18 countries in Europe and America.