EYAS Dance Project
Who we are
EYAS Dance Project is a contemporary dance company and cultural platform based in Valencia, founded in 2018 by co-directors, creators, and dancers Carlos González and Seth Buckley.
Carlos and Seth are passionate and boundary-pushing artists who thrive on exploring uncharted creative territories. With a bold spirit and a deep commitment to questioning the status quo, their work seeks to connect with audiences through immersive, innovative, and profoundly emotional performative experiences.
They create for EYAS, take on external choreographic commissions, and produce cultural events, festivals, and workshops—all with the purpose of offering a renewed vision of dance. Their work focuses on healing bodies, cultivating transformative experiences, and exploring new paradigms of connection and movement.
What drives their creativity is the depth of their creations. Through sensitive, playful, and passionate choreographic and improvisational research, they draw inspiration from various dance styles, as well as from film, science, and spirituality, infusing their works with boundless fantasy, contagious rhythm, and vibrant physicality.
EYAS is deeply committed to creating supportive spaces for dancers and artists. They actively promote body diversity, reject harmful societal standards, and advocate for ethical and holistic practices in their creations, workshops, and cultural events. Their goal is to contribute to a dance profession that is more conscious, diverse, joyful, and equitable.
Trajectory
Since its foundation, EYAS has brought its creations to audiences in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Taiwan, the USA, Sweden, Canada and Spain, performing at renowned festivals such as Madrid en Danza, MASDANZA, Festival Dansa Valencia, Abril en Danza, Festival Dantza Hirían, Menorca en Danza, Tendance Festival (Latina, Italy), Festival Trayectos, and FIND Festival (Cagliari, Sardinia), among others.
The company has achieved widespread recognition and distinction in the field of contemporary dance, including choreographic competitions like the Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, MASDANZA, and the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. Additionally, EYAS has gathered 5 nominations at the Valencian Performing Arts Awards in 2022 and 2023, and has been highlighted by SusyQ magazine as one of seven emerging talents with the greatest potential in Spain’s contemporary dance sector.
Manifesto
We are an organization committed to supporting female and LGBTQ+ creators, actively working to transform the narrative around body diversity and identity in modern society. By honoring and celebrating physical differences, we break free from restrictive norms, approaching the body with openness and compassion. We strive to create environments where body terrorism has no place, inside or outside of the studio. Our work stands as a rejection of the fear-based, oppressive practices that still exist in some academic and professional dance spaces, proposing instead a path of acceptance, empowerment, and respect for all human bodies.
Since the founding of our dance company, our work has been deeply informed by research into sexual diversity, feminism, sustainability, sensuality, and healing practices. These themes are the heartbeat of everything we create.
Our artistic vision is filtered through a queer lens, embracing the freedom to explore the full range of human expression and fantasies within the body and beyond physical boundaries.
We believe in horizontality. In our professional environment, we honor every human aspect of our team, like their emotions, needs, insecurities, and medical specifications. We prioritize conscious, transparent communication, fostering positive reinforcement and collaboration with everyone we work with.
At the heart of our approach is humanity. This principle flows seamlessly into our artistic vision, where vulnerability and honesty are not only encouraged but celebrated. It is from this primal well of authenticity that our artistic language is born and continually nourished.