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Aïda Colmenero Dïaz
at Barcelona Capital Mundial de la arquitectura
Barcelona Capital Mundial de l'Arquitectura and AM26 will present Kolochi Baw a stage work by aïda colmenero dïaz on the 1st of October. Kolochi Baw reflects on humanity’s great constructions and the political, social, and spiritual sacrifices that have made them possible. It reclaims the home as a right that must be developed in harmony with nature. the piece is presented as a manifesto on how we construct and inhabit the world.
It features Performers from Mali, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, and Brazil.
Kolochi Baw has been created within the framework of her Pina Bausch Fellowship she has received from the Foundation Pina Bausch
01.10.26
Kolochi Baw will be presented at Sala Paralell
New international tour National Museum Theater and Zanzibar International Film Festival
Promoted by the Spanish Embassy in Dar es Salaam
Company Aïda Colmenero Dïaz embarks on a new international tour in Tanzania with two major events at the National Museum Theatre in Dar es Salaam and the Zanzibar International Film Festival. The program brings together the powerful stage duet ‘Lifetime Dust VII’ and a finely curated selection of She Poems short films.
23.06.26
national museum theater
26.06.26
She Poems for the first time in Andalucía Festival Artes Vivas Málaga
Promoted by the Consortium formed by Centre Pompidou Málaga, Museo Casa Natal Picasso and MEET - espacio expositivo tabacalera
Aïda presents a curated selection of short films: Exodus, Life, Stay in me, The Fear Remover, Cicatriz de Luz and Lifetime Dust VII, works created in Tanzania, Senegal and Cape Verde, and presents a unique performance of her stage work Qué importa el abismo, adapted to a museum setting, a powerful visceral piece with a decade of brilliant international touring
12:00h shortfilms
12.30h performance Qué importa el abismo,
13:00h post talk with choreographer
19.04.26
meet espacio expositivo tabacalera
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz
get to sacred epicenter of theater: Almagro
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz will present her solo Conxurando o Invisible
produced by the Group of World Heritage cities of Spain in collaboration with UNESCO, Conxurando o Invisible summons the collective body as living memory: a performative mantra of female voices that invokes respect, dignity, and connection with the invisible. a visceral homage to galicia, its roots, and its absences
the National Museum of Performing Arts, managed by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music, is located in the Palaces of the Masters of Calatrava – an historic building constructed in the mid-13th century in Almagro
this presentation is part of the program curated by actress, director, and teacher andrea delicado
25.04.26
National Museum of Performing Arts
An international tour across
6 countries with stage work
'Qué importa el abismo'
MOBIARTS tour organized and funded by the Goethe Institut, marks a new phase in the company’s international journey,
Candidate for the 2022 spanish Max Awards as best emerging author, Qué importa el abismo is a dance theater piece inspired in the poem by Iosune de Goñi, performed by Estelle Foli and directed by Aïda Colmenero dïaz. Here the tour dates:
16 july | accra | ghana
18 july | dar es salaam | tanzania
31 july | luanda | angola
21 november | yaoundé | cameroon
29 november | lomé | togo
12 december | kinshasa | democractic republic of congo
08.07.25
mobiarts tour
Interview in Vogue magazine
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, choreographer: “I want to imagine another better future world from the present”.
The creator focused on the world of dances coming from the south claims her art from a series of groundbreaking proposals that are directly rooted in her own tradition.
08.05.25
Aïda Colmenero Díaz
guest at the roundtable
“Authorial Sisterhood”
organized by SGAE
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz will take part in the roundtable alongside other prominent professionals from music, audiovisual media, and the performing arts: Vanessa Garde (composer), Marta González de Vega (screenwriter and playwright), Nya de la Rubia (composer and singer), Andrea Jiménez (playwright and theatre director), María Eguizabal (director of the record label and music publishing company Vanana Records), and María Zamora (producer and co-founder of Elástica Films). The conversation will be moderated by Raquel García (cultural journalist at Cadena SER)
05.03.26
Biennial of
Women in the Visual Arts award
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz
5° Bienal de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales at
Thyssen -Bornemisza Museum
Aïda has been awarded with special mention at the 5° Biennial of Women in the Visual Arts during the gala held at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid the 12th of June 2024.
The Spanish artist was selected by the expert committee of the Biennial of Women in the Visual Arts of Spain to receive this award for her work in the field of the visual arts with her project She Poems, a recognition of her career that is backed by a special mention from The Enaire Foundation.
12.06.24
European Union Delegation to the African Union name Aïda as
Artistic Director of MAISHA
MAISHA (Swahili word for ‘life’) is a cooperation initiative between the European Union and African Union to strengthen the relationships between the people of both continents through the power of art.
22.04.24
Bridging cultures through Afro-European collaboration
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Launching of the interview with Aïda Colmenero Dïaz
Premiered in Spain at the Mercat de les Flors. in 2023, aïda colmenero dïaz company is invited to present the work 'kolochi baw' at the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal as a national premiere in Germany and to carry out an artistic residency in Lichbturg, the historic space where Pina Bausch created most of her repertoire. This interview explores into the creation process of the work 'kolochi baw' and captures the passage of the company in Wuppertal, becoming the first Spanish choreographer invited to these two renowned spaces for the Universal history of Dance.
05.04.24
"Kolochi Baw" dance theater piece tour in Germany at Pina Bausch Zentrum & Punpenhaus Theater
Pina Bausch Fellow 2021
"the jury was unanimous in its embrace of Aïda Colmenero Dïaz and her co-partner Antonio Tavares‘ fellowship. the candidate shows a lifelong commitment to a dialogue on decolonization of knowledge and power dynamics be-tween the global north and the global south, dialogue in ways that read as sincere and sustainable. the maturity of both, candidate and co-partner was noted by the jury“
First Spanish choreographer to received this award
10.07.21