Álvaro Esteban

Álvaro Esteban holds degrees in Contemporary Dance (Mariemma Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance, Madrid), Sport Sciences, Sports Therapy, and Coaching Psychology. Since 2006, he has worked as a dancer with various companies and choreographers as an independent artist, as well as in collaborative projects that have received awards and international recognition, including Sphynx (German “Der Faust” Award 2022 for Best Choreography) and Gravity by Rafaële Giovanola with tanzmainz. In 2013, he joined Giovanola’s artistic collective CocoonDance Company, where, as a dancer, movement creator, and member of the artistic team, Álvaro continues to share and develop his own research and understanding of movement and composition. Since 2016, he has been leading classes and dance workshops – e.g. for tanzmainz, Scapino Ballet, as well as international workshops in various festivals – sharing exploration tools and focusing on topics such as spinal mobility, awareness of our structures and their weight, as well as the communicative, empathetic, and synchronization skills that emerge between bodies in motion. As co-creator he also produced independent dance productions, such as  Cualquier Mañana (2014), and Entomo (2010) which has been on tour for six years and earned 1st Prizes in Choreography Competitions in Spain and Kuba. Since 2019, Álvaro has been a faculty member of the “KalaKeli movement arts” training program in Goa, India. In the season 2026/27 Álvaro joins in the dance production Breath Works at Stadttheater Gießen for movement research.