Avatâra Ayuso

ABOUT THIS CLASS

Avatâra a dynamic contemporary ballet class for today’s dancer with emphasis on alignment, musicality, movement qualities and the epaulement (the ability to move in spiral motion), set to a score of world music (from pop and jazz to bossa nova). It is a highly physical class for freelance dance artists, that enjoy approaching ballet with a 21st century mind.

ABOUT AVATÂRA AYUSO

Avatâra Ayuso is an award winning choreographer, Artistic Director of AVA Dance Company, a cultural leader and activist in the dance world.

She is also the founder and director of the charity AWA DANCE (Advancing Women’s Aspirations with Dance).

She trained in ballet (Conservatorio Profesional de Mallorca and with Carmina Ocaña), in Argentinean Tango and in Linguistics (BA and MA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) before moving to London to obtain a Certificate in Higher Education at London Contemporary Dance School. In 2005 she became part of the D.A.N.C.E. programme led by Jason Beechey, where she worked and performed internationally under the artistic direction of William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Frédéric Flamand and Angelin Preljocaj.

She obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Dance from Palucca Hochschule Dresden. From 2010-2018 she has been Associate Artist of the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau Dresden (Germany) and she is Associate Company of Creative Academy Slough (UK) since 2014. In 2021 Avatâra undertook a Clore fellowship placement with the United Nations Foundation Global affiliate Girl UP ALC (America Latina y el Caribe).

She was nominated for the 2015 UK National Dance Awards and again in the 2019 UK National Dance Awards for Outstanding Female Modern Performance.

Avatâra was dancer and long-standing creative collaborator of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance (UK) from 2007 to 2020.

She was Resident Artist 2019 at the Teatro del Lago in Chile and guest choreographer at National Opera Theater of Chile – Ballet de Santiago in 2023. Her ballet “Nijinska. Secreto de la Vanguardia” won the National Best 2023 Production Award in Chile