Roser López Espinosa
"Floorwork & Partnering"
August 4 – 8, 2026
12:00 – 14:00 H
Professionals
14.30 – 16.30 H
Advanced Plus
Muffathalle Studios
Zellstraße 4
Studio D
In English
Roser López Espinosa’s work captivates audiences with its powerful physicality, great precision, and a poetic, playful movement language that blends acrobatic elements, sensitivity, and subtle humor. Collaboration, creativity, and physical dynamism are at the heart of her work.
The workshop invites participants to explore the body as a versatile, creative instrument. Through the focus on spinal mobility (spirals, twists, undulations, and flowing movement sequences) and subtle coordinations, new physical possibilities open up to foster expressiveness and fluidity of movement. Floor work and simple acrobatic sequences support a conscious and functional interplay between anatomy and movement.
Working together in pairs and groups, participants also explore weight exchange, partnering, and spatial movement dynamics. Step by step, more complex physical interactions emerge, strengthening attention, trust, and teamwork. Precision, a joy of movement, and physical imagination make this workshop an intense and inspiring movement experience.
Roser López Espinosa studied at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and also trained in Olympic artistic gymnastics in Barcelona. As a dancer, she has collaborated with renowned choreographers and artists such as Àngels Margarit, Cesc Gelabert, and Katie Duck.
Since 2006, she presented her own works internationally and has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Critics Award in the category Best Choreography for the group piece “Trama”. She has also created works for international dance companies like Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Scottish Dance Theatre (UK) and MiR Dance Company (Germany) among others, and she has collaborated with circus companies like Compagnie XY (France). With “Cometa”, she developed a piece for young audiences that tours internationally.
Roser López Espinosa was a resident artist in Mercat de les Flors Barcelona and resident in exchange in the NTCH in Taipei, and she is an associate artist at the dance creation center La Caldera in Barcelona. She produces new dance pieces for her own company Lowland.