Amalia Fernández

Amalia Fernández (Granada, 1970) is a dancer, studied Classical and Contemporary Dance at the Conservatory of Seville and at the School of the Dance Theater of Madrid (INAEM), completing her training with various choreographers such as Francesc Bravo, Debra Greenfield, Carl Paris, Ana Buitrago, Elena Córdoba, María José Ribot Mónica Valenciano, who she worked with from 1994 until 2005 as an interpreter and assistanr director in five shows for El Bailadero Mónica Valenciano company. As an independent artist, she has premiered the shows: Matrioshka in 2005, Maya in 2006, Shichimi Togarashi in 2007, Les bosses in 2008, Kratimosha in 2009, Souvenir in 2010, En construcción in 2010 and 2013, en construcción 2 in 2016 and El delicado y resistente hilo musical in 2017. He has collaborated on projects with Gary Stevens, Odd Enginears, Karin Elmore and Cuqui Jerez.

Last project in residence

Dancer and performer Amalia Fernández applied for a residency at TNT to embark on a personal journey—a journey of return. Throughout her career, dance itself had gradually slipped into the background. Certain conventions and biases imposed by institutional and academic frameworks had led Amalia to fall out of love with it. She grew tired of approaching dance only through challenge and technical demand. Where had the pleasure gone?

After more than twenty years (years in which Iyengar yoga helped shift her perspective on ways of moving and transmitting through the body), she now wanted to see whether dance—the experience that arises purely from the body and expresses itself in space—might still have something to say to her. What began as a deeply subjective path (“from Amalia to the world”) soon became a duet, then a trio, and finally a quartet. Within this intuitive expansion, like an oil stain slowly spreading, lies one of the great appeals of Neti Neti. This dance, kindred to carnival and rave, transcends the rational and digs deep into wells full of sacred and profane legacies that resonate within all of us.

Neti Neti refers to a method from Hinduism used to approach the understanding of the divine. It’s like a kind of epiphany—a hit of clarity, pure and unfiltered. But make no mistake: here it’s grounded, always down to earth. Because Amalia Fernández mixes it with everything she loves: layer upon layer of references, images, and forms from popular culture. Epiphany, bulería, and Bee Gees.