EYAS Dance Project
Who we are
EYAS Dance Project is a valencian contemporary dance company and artistic production hub that was founded in 2018 by co-directors, creators and dancers Carlos González and Seth Buckley.
We are multidisciplinary and transgressive artists who don’t play by the rules; we rewrite them. With a fearless spirit and determination to question the status quo and an integrative vision of dance, our creations aim to connect with the audience by creating heartfelt, innovative and pleasurable experiences through striking and immersive performative proposals.
We share our language, producing cultural events, teaching and on stage, creating for our own company as well as choreographic commissions. All in service of contributing to a fresh vision of dance relating to our healing bodies, the cultivation of pleasurable experiences, and an exploration of the quantum paradigm.
What sets us on fire is the depth of our creations, where we research choreography and improvisation with sensitivity, playfulness and passion, drawing inspiration from a wide range of dance styles and imbuing our bodies with limitless fantasies, contagious groove, powerful physical states and vibrational content.
Creating safe spaces for dancers and artists, EYAS promotes anti body terrorism, holistic and ethical practices in our creations, workshops, and cultural events. Our goal is to contribute to a more conscious, diverse, joyful and fair profession.
Trajectory
EYAS presents a hybrid model company, between author and repertory, an innovative and fresh structure that focuses on creating and commissioning dance works on a national and international level.
Since its foundation, EYAS has presented works in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Taiwan, USA, Sweden and Spain, in 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, FIND Festival (Cagliari, Sardinia) among others. The company has also received various awards from prestigious choreographic competitions such as the Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, MASDANZA, and the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid.
With more than 40 performances over the last 2 years, and a total of 5 nominations at the Valencian Performing Arts Awards 2022 and 2023, the company has been mentioned in SusyQ magazine as one of seven emerging talents with the greatest projection in Spain’s contemporary dance sector.
Manifesto
We are an organization that supports female and LGBTQ+ creators and focuses on actively disrupting the systemic oppression towards body diversity and identity that is perpetuated within our profession and in our day to day as people in most modern societies. By honouring physical differences, we break free from the normative canons, we approach the body without judgment and strive to eliminate all forms of body terrorism within and outside of the studio. We vehemently reject harmful, oppressive and fear-based tactics that are still so often used in academic and professional dance spheres around the world.
Since the founding of our dance company, our work has been informed by our research on topics and themes surrounding gender, sensuality, feminism, sexual diversity, anti ‘body terrorism’ and ethical working practices.
Our artistic work is coloured by and envisioned through a queer lens. We are interested in the freedom of researching a full expressive range of possibilities and fantasies within the body and beyond matter.
We believe in horizontality. Within our professional working environment, we take into account all human aspects of our entire team such as feelings, needs, insecurities and/or medical specifications. We practice conscious and transparent communication and positive reinforcement with all our collaborators.
We focus on humanity as the basis of how we work. This approach merges with our artistic vision, where vulnerability and honesty in the interpretation of our dancers are cultivated, and are a primal source that feeds our artistic language.