Luz Arcas

Luz Arcas formed La Phármaco Company in 2009. Her prizes include: the Critics’s Eye 2015 Prize for Dance; the 2015 Lorca Best Female Dance Performance; Runner- Up for the Best Female Dance Performance at the 2015 Max Theatre Awards; the 2009 Injuve Prize; the 2009 Malaga Creates Prize. Creative highlights include: Kaspar Hauser: Europe’s Orphan (Canal Theatres, Autumn to Spring Festival, 2016); Misere. When Night Comes, They Will Covered by it (Canal Theatres, 2017); A Great Political Emotion (2018, Valle-Inclán Theatre Madrid, co-production with the National Dramatic Centre), The Most Beautiful Children (2018, co-production between the Víctor Ullate Ballet and the Greater Madrid Council), Dolorosa/Our Lady of Sorrows (2019, created for The National Theatre of El Salvador) and the new Project, Berkisten/Christians, a trilogy whose first instalment, Domestication, was premiered in Madrid’s Canal Theatres last November. She also explores non-theatrical spaces such as in The Chacona Dance (2015, Pompidou Centre), Embodying what was Hidden (2016, King Juan Carlos Centre, University of New York), The Wanderer (2018, Conde Duque, Garden State) o Room with my Soul Outside (2019, Picasso Museum, Bruce Nauman Exhibition). The Pharmakos has carried out other kinds of artistic and pedagogical ventures such as World and Language (2016, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, You, Who Have the Light, at the National School of Dance in New Delhi (2016). Their repertory has toured different companies, accompanied by educational programmes in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Their work has received support from the Canal Dance Theatre Company; the Greater Madrid Council; the National Dance Company; the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions; the National Institute of Stage Arts and Music; the Ministry of Culture, Education and Sport; Madrid City Council; the General Society of Spanish Authors; the Cervantes Institute; the Spanish Agency for Development of International Co-operation.