Eva Yerbabuena

[3][4] Yerbabuena was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1970, but fifteen days after her birth was taken by her parents to their hometown of Ogíjares in Granada, Spain, where she grew up with her grandparents until she was ten years old.

She has collaborated with Manolete, Merche Esmeralda, Javier Latorre, Joaquín Cortés, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pina Bausch.

Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco was established in 1998 including her guitarist and husband Paco Jarana as musical director.

In the 1990s, he was part of the dance troupe in La fuerza del destino, by Javier Latorre, and version of El amor brujo ballet by Manolete.

In 1998 she performed at the City Center in New York and at the Teatro Real in Madrid as a guest artist of the Ballet Nacional de España, playing A mi niña Manuela.

[6] In addition, she appeared together with Mijaíl Barýshnikov in Wuppertal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his company, where she had the opportunity to share stage with Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Ana Laguna and Sylvie Guillem.

It was his first work "with an argument" that she choreographed and also the first in which she hired a stage director, Hansel Cereza, of La Fura dels Baus.

The show, directed by Cereza, combined the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Luis Cernuda with flamenco music and dance.

[10] In early 2006, she toured extensively in Asia and Oceania, performing at theaters in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New Zealand.

Eva la Yerbabuena in a lecture in 2007