María Pagés shares the bill at Danza Málaga with Nacho Duato, Eva Yerbabuena, and Olga Pericet.

María Pagés shares the bill with the dance companies of Nacho Duato, Eva Yerbabuena, and Olga Pericet at Danza Málaga (DZM), a series that focuses ... on the movement arts in the two municipal theaters in October. The 2025 edition consists of thirteen proposals including Alfonso Losa and Paula Comitre's Alter ego and three premieres of Malaga-rooted works crafted by Moisés Navarro 'el Charro', Nieves Rosales for SilencioDanza, and the Fernando Hurtado Dance Company. Additionally, there is room for dance designed for the enjoyment of the youngest, for the always well-received Slavic classical ballet school, from which three legendary choreographies will be seen, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker, and to host the proposal from Compañía X.

The bulk of DZM will take place at the Teatro Cervantes and the Teatro Echegaray from Monday, October 13, with the performance of Alfonso Losa's company until the end of the month. The cycle will conclude, already in the Christmas period, with the International Classical Ballet on December 29 and the Kiev Ballet on January 6, 2026. Tickets are already on sale, and interested audience members can benefit from the new open subscriptions for the Teatro Cervantes performances (10% discount if tickets for 3 shows are purchased, 20% if 5 are bought, and 30% for eight).

Pagés attended this morning in Malaga to present her autobiographical solo Amor de Dios, a powerful choreography that shows the artist in all her truth and that will take to the stage of the Teatro Cervantes on Tuesday, October 21. The councilor for Culture and Historical Heritage of the Malaga City Council, Mariana Pineda, and the director of the Teatro Cervantes and manager of Malaga Procultura, Juan Antonio Vigar, accompanied the Sevillian choreographer and dancer, who will be preceded in the DZM cycle by Eva Yerbabuena (Sunday 19) and followed by Olga Pericet (Wednesday 22), allowing the Malaga public to see consecutively three of the most renowned artists in the flamenco universe. In addition to attending the presentation of the DZM program, Pagés left her handprint at the Museum of Prints on the third floor of the theater.

In Amor de Dios, María Pagés and El Arbi El Harti (co-founder of the María Pagés Choreographic Center in Fuenlabrada and co-director and playwright of this work) narrate the existential concerns of a young dancer seen from the mature memory of a professional, a Catalan by origin, Sevillian by birth and Madrilenian by adoption, who cemented her learning in the flamenco studies center located in the Lavapiés neighborhood that gives its name to this work. Indeed, the Amor de Dios Flamenco Art Center became for the young María, newly arrived in the capital, a refuge, a sort of sacred fountain tailored to the infinite, free, and crazy imagination of a dancer who suddenly discovers the vast breadth of the discipline she loves.

Alfonso Losa and Paula Comitre inaugurate the Danza Málaga cycle with a work that won four awards at the 28th Edition of the Jerez Festival, including the Critics' and the Audience's awards. Alter ego opens on Monday, October 13, a first week that will continue with Nacho Duato, Moisés Navarro, and Fernando Hurtado and will offer on Sunday, October 19, the children's show The Ugly Duckling and Yerbagüena (dark brilliant), by Eva Yerbabuena. Alter ego is a game of specters, of two bodies that show and teach us their asterisks. It is a shared, open, and free challenge. A dance made of impulses, surprises, questions, treasures, disconcertments, steam, entrails, and horizons. Alfonso now finds in Paula a new accomplice body with which to cross their asterisks in this game of specters. The singing of Sandra Carrasco and Ismael 'el Bola' and the touch of Francisco Vinuesa, also the author of the music, put the finishing touch to the show.

The young Nacho Duato Company recovers four creations by this indispensable choreographer and dancer in the world panorama of the genre (National Dance Award and artistic director of the National Dance Company, the Mikhailovsky Ballet of St. Petersburg and the Staatsballett Berlin among other merits). In Gnawa, Duato delves into his roots and his connection with the Mediterranean, Liberté is a moving call to collective consciousness about human rights, Na Floresta is conceived as a musical triptych that recreates the beauty of the Amazon jungles, and Cantus, created for his company, speaks of the horrors of a military conflict through the eyes of the young people caught in it. The appointment, Wednesday, October 15 at the Cervantes.

The first premiere arrives on Thursday, October 16 at the Teatro Echegaray. The Malaga-born dancer and choreographer Moisés Navarro, son of Francisca Vergara Lechón 'Paquita' and Francisco Navarro Cortés 'el Charro', shows for the first time his Bendita Lo / Cura, a journey inside his own mind in which through movement and music he tells his most intimate fears, insecurities, and phobias. On Friday, October 17, and Saturday, October 18, they will follow in these same boards Tómbola, creation of Ada Continente, Saray Garzia, and Nadia Yagoubi for Compañía X, a 'troupe' based in the Basque Country that was born in 2018 halfway between Spain and Latin America, and the absolute premiere of El hilo del olvido, a choreography by Fernando Hurtado about a woman in her 50s who has just been diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. Inma Montalvo and Ana Moreno will accompany the dancer and choreographer from Nerja in his new creation.

On the morning of Sunday, October 19, the youngest (from 3 years old) can enjoy at the Echegaray the tribute of the NS Dance Theatre company to Hans Christian Andersen on the 150th anniversary of his death with their version of The Ugly Duckling, and in the afternoon Eva Yerbabuena lands at the Gerónimo Cuervo theater. The dancer born in Frankfurt and raised in Granada presents in Malaga Yerbagüena (dark brilliant), a choreography structured in four numbers in which she again resorts to duality as an expressive but above all reflective form. Delving into two fundamentally opposite and complementary forces, but interconnected, she pounces on a maxim increasingly present in her creations: nothing exists in a pure state nor in absolute stillness.

After Yerbabuena, María Pagés will tread the linoleum of the Teatro Cervantes with her Amor de Dios (Tuesday 21) and Olga Pericet with La Materia (Wednesday 22), the second step of the trilogy inspired by the guitars of the legendary luthier Antonio de Torres that the Cordoban started with La Leona (presented at Danza Málaga 2023) and that will culminate with La Invencible. If with La Leona Pericet looked at this instrument from the outside, with La Materia she does it from the inside, evoking the wood, the smell, the sound, and the silence. A game of challenges and complementarities woven together with Daniel Abreu, another of the greats of dance in our country (he was National Award in 2014). A very physical creative journey that seeks a flamenco in its bone, innovative and naked. The same afternoon that Pericet and Abreu will dance at the Cervantes, Nieves Rosales will do so at the Echegaray. The company of the Malaga-born, SilencioDanza, will premiere there Hambre. Anatomy of a revolution, a work that recalls the women's strikes that erupted throughout Spain in the winter of 1918 in the context of the protests against World War I and hunger, and that in Malaga called on "mothers, sisters, and companions" on January 13 on Beatas Street.

The classical dance of the Slavic school, always present in the DZM programs, will feature the Kiev Ballet twice and the International Classical Ballet. In all three cases, three celebrated Tchaikovsky ballets with choreographies by Marius Petipa will be seen again in the Malaga coliseum. The Ukrainian company will perform Sleeping Beauty on October 29 and will close the cycle with The Nutcracker on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, also as the culmination of the special Christmas program. In between, and also as part of the Christmas poster at the Cervantes, the International Classical Ballet will reprise in Malaga its version of Swan Lake (Monday, December 29).

DANZA MÁLAGA 2025. TEATROS CERVANTES (TC) AND ECHEGARAY (TE)

Alter ego. Alfonso Losa Company. With Alfonso Losa and Paula Comitre. TC. October 13, 2025. €30

Gnawa / Liberté / Na Floresta / Cantus. Nacho Duato Company. TC. October 15. €15 to €45

Bendita Lo / Cura. Moisés Navarro. With Moisés Navarro. PREMIERE. TE. October 16 €24

Tómbola. Compañía X. With Ada Continente, Saray Garzia, and Nadia Yagoubi. TE. October 17. €24

El hilo del olvido. Fernando Hurtado Dance Company. PREMIERE. TE. October 17. €24

The Ugly Duckling. NS Dance Theatre. CHILDREN. TE. October 19. €8

Yerbagüena (dark brilliant). Eva Yerbabuena Company. With Eva Yerbabuena TC. October 19. €12 to €36

Amor de Dios. María Pagés Company. With María Pagés. TC. October 21. €12 to €36

La materia. Olga Pericet. With Olga Pericet and guest artist Daniel Abreu TC. October 22. €12 to €36

Hambre. Anatomy of a revolution. SilencioDanza. With Nieves Rosales. PREMIERE. TE. October 22. €24

Sleeping Beauty. Kiev Ballet. TC. October 29. €18 to €54

Swan Lake. International Classical Ballet. TC. December 29. €18 to €54

The Nutcracker. Kiev Ballet. TC. January 6, 2026. €18 to €54