Carmela Muñoz
Carmela Muñoz is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher, graduated from the CSD at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She develops her professional career as a performer in companies such as Estévez-Paños, Chloé Brûlé–Marco Vargas, José Manuel Álvarez, La Fura dels Baus, Juan Carlos Lérida, and Patricia Caballero, while also building her trajectory as a creator with works such as Catalina Mía, Bailes de Histéricas, and Invocation. She received the First Prize in Choreography and the Outstanding Dancer Award for Catalina Mía at various choreography competitions in Madrid (2017–2018). In 2021, she received the award for Best Performer for Estudio sobre la histeria at the 15m² Festival; in 2022, the Best Performer Award at the PAD Andalucía Awards for her participation in Origen; and in 2023, the Best Piece in a Non-Conventional Space Award at the PAD Andalucía Awards for Invocation. She is currently developing her long-term research project Invocaciones boleras o la danza de las desposeídas, collaborating with different contexts of research, memory, writing, and the transmission of dance.
