DA.TE Danza will be 25 years old.
It will be October 2, 2024.
Aniversario que se cumple con la primera representación de «Un caballo en el Cielo» el 02 de Octubre de 1999 en el Teatro Alhambra de Granada.
2603
Functions performed
28
Shows produced
22
Countries visited
DA.TE Danza will be 25 years old.
It will be October 2, 2025.
Aniversario que se cumple con la primera representación de «Un caballo en el Cielo» el 02 de Octubre de 1999 en el Teatro Alhambra de Granada.
2603
Functions performed
28
Shows produced
22
Countries visited
DA.TE Danza celebrates 25 years creating, producing and exhibiting contemporary dance, dance-theater and theater with objects for children and young audiences, from early childhood to adolescence.
With 28 shows premiered and more than 2,600 performances, DA.TE Danza is one of the longest running dance companies in Andalusia, with a stable and rigorous structure, becoming a consolidated project that originated in 1999.
All the company's projects have the stable collaboration of the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, belonging to the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain and the Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales, belonging to the Consejería de Cultura y Patrimonio Histórico de la Junta de Andalucía.
Vision and mission
Committed messages
Since its beginnings DA.TE Danza has been committed to a work where the message takes precedence over aesthetics. By this we mean that we create and produce shows committed to today's society, showing children and young people a story to reflect on.
In this way, it accompanies the spectator under a dramaturgy and conveys committed stories, which until now had not been told to children.
Style and technique
Our shows
From the aesthetic point of view, the company shows the influences of Omar Meza's trajectory, where one can discover an eclectic style with marked traces of Graham, Limón, Pina Bausch as well as improvisation and contact techniques.
The fundamental feature of Omar Meza's creative style is to rely on and enhance the performer's personal movement, since this is the fundamental vehicle of the message and, as mentioned above, it takes precedence over the merely aesthetic character.
Dramaturgy
A key figure
We orient the shows under a dramaturgy, concentrating our efforts in bringing to the spectator each story, sensation, emotion... We always incorporate the figure of the playwright in the creative process.
All of the company's artistic proposals include original musical composition, theatrical direction and dramaturgy, due to the importance that these scenic signs have in the transmission of the show's narrative.
Awards and recognitions.
"A Horse in the Sky" (1999).
- Best Children's Show at the Feria de Teatro en el Sur ( Palma del Río, 1999).
"Half the truth is in the eyes" (2000).
- Best Original Music at the Feria de Teatro en el Sur ( Palma del Río, 2000)
"Alonso Quijano El Bueno" (2005).
- Best Scenography, Best Music and Best Direction at FETEN ( Gijón, 2006)
"Tondo Redondo"(2006).
- Best Early Childhood Show at the Feria de Teatro en el Sur ( Palma del Río, 2007).
- Best Children's Show of the Bursa Teather Festival For Children and Young People ( Russia, 2008)
"Dream" (2008).
- Special Mention of the Jury at the Fira de Titelles de Lleida ( Lleida, 2010).
"Rio de Luna" (2010).
- Best Dance Performance at FETEN ( Gijón, 2011)
"What is my name..." (2014).
- Best Show for Children FETEN ( Gijón, 2015)
- Iván Montardit, Best Performer FETEN Award ( Gijón, 2015)
- Greta Johnsson, Best Dancer FITC Bucharest Festival ( Hungary, 2016)
"Knots" (2019).
- Lorca de Teatro Andaluz ARESAN Award - Best female performer, María José Casado (Seville, 2019).
"Natanam" (2021)
- FETEN 2021 Award To the approach of dance for early childhood ( Gijón, 2021)
"In No Man's Land" (2022).
- Nomination for Family Show and Female Contemporary Dance Performer ( Jaén, 2022)
Omar Meza
Omar Meza is considered one of the great international experts in the performing arts for children. Proof of this is that he is a pioneer and the first creator of dance for early childhood in our country. During the last few years Omar has focused his efforts on creation, research and work for children.
A team of people
DA.TE Danza is composed of a single team of professionals in which there are three types of performance: artistic, technical and management. A company that has always opened its doors to committed people, with or without experience, but open to grow personally and professionally.
National and international presence.
- International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada.
- FETEN. International Children's Theatre Festival. Gijón.
- Festival Mes Petit de Tots. Sabadell.
- Nerja Danza Festival. Málaga.
- MUDA. Dance Exhibition of Andalusia. Malaga.
- Theater Fair in the South. Palma del Río. Córdoba.
- Teatralia Festival. Madrid.
- Breaking the Shell Cycle. Madrid.
- Cradling you. Diputación de Granada.
- Escenia Diputación de Granada.
- Abecedaria Circuit. Andalusia.
- Andalusian Dance Circuit. Andalusia.
- Theater Network Circuit. Castilla la Mancha.
- Circuito Red de Teatros. Castilla y León.
- Theater Network Circuit. Community of Madrid.
- SAREA. Basque Network Circuit. Basque Country.
- Program of the Diputació de Catalunya L' Anem al Teatre. Catalonia.
- International Weeks of Theater for Children. Madrid.
- Armes Theatre of Chemmitz. Germany.
- Dansand Festival. Andorra.
- Szene Bunte Wahne Festival. Austria.
- Ruutia Festival of Helsinkin. Finland.
- CCM Jean Gagnant, Limoges. France.
- Teatro Testoni Ragazzi of Bologna. Italy.
- Festival Visioni di futuro, Bologna. Italy.
- National Center for the Arts. Mexico.
- XV José Limón International Festival, Culiacán. Mexico.
- La Paz Theater, S. Luis Potosi. Mexico.
- Joane Cultural Center, Vila de Joane. Portugal.
- Minifest International Festival For Children and Young, Rostov-on-Don. Russia.
- New Stage of Belgrade Drama Theatre. Serbia.
- FESTIC Festival of Serbia-Montenegro.
- 13th Bursa International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People. Turkey.
- Festival 100, 1000, 1 million the Stories Ion Greanga Theatre. Romania.
- International Children's Festival of Trieste. Italy.
- FIDAY. Uruguay.
- KILKIS International Festival for Children. Greece.
- Scorpis and art culture china Asian tour Sheezen. Honkong. China.
- Juanjo Corrales of Thesspuppert. Greece.
- PRISMA. International Dance Festival. Panama.
- Take Part in Art Festival. Malego Widza Theater. Poland.