María La Ribot

With more than 45 works under her belt, including choreographies, installations and videos, La Ribot continues to find interest in living art, in the human body and its capacity for poetic, subversive and political expression.

Back in Madrid, she continued her training with Víctor Ullate, Carmen Roche and other great masters of classical dance such as Luis Fuentes.

In 1986 she founded and directed Bocanada Danza with the dancer and choreographer Blanca Calvo, a company that aimed to experience with choral choreographies and diverse narratives alongside original music.

This was the generic title with which La Ribot named a series of pieces with a choreographic format based on brevity, accumulation and continuity.

Sole!, while collaborating in the foundation of the UVI-La Inesperada, a dance research group, along with five other choreographers: Mónica Valenciano, Olga Mesa, Blanca Calvo, Ana Buitrago and Elena Córdoba.

In 2003, Live Culture presented Panoramix for the first time at the Tate Modern in London;[2] an anthological version of the thirty-four distinguished pieces created until that moment.

La Ribot had experimented already with video and the scene in El triste que nunca os vido (1991), but it is in 2000 that she began to record camera in hand, with sequence shots, developing the concept of corps-opérateur (operating body).

This first great installation with her fetish object, the wooden chair, foldable and popular, involved once again the viewer, with his body in motion and, as in Laughing Hole, the graphic inscription.

Another Distinguée (2016), the fifth series of distinguished pieces, is a trio for her, Juan Loriente and Thami Manekehla, in which the presence of a large installation in the center of the space forces the public to wander in the dark, one centimeter away from the interpreters.

The Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, dedicated a monographic exhibition entitled Take a Seat in the summer of 2018, in which Walk the Authors premiered with great success.

In 2019, two major projects are organized around the work of La Ribot: the Constellation presented by the Mercat de les Flors-Macba in Barcelona, and the Portrait dedicated to her work by the Festival d'Automne de Paris, becoming one of the few international artists who have occupied a place of that relevance in the prestigious festival.