Pablo Ventura
Las Palmas - 1959

Pablo Ventura receives his dance education at the London Contemporary Dance School where he graduated in 1985. He starts to perfom as a dancer and soon makes his debut as a choreographer.
As a dancer he appears in choreographies of José Limón, Viola Farber, Siobham Davies and Kim Brandstrup, and was founder member of Arc Dance Company in London. Other engagements includes Second Stride Dance Company, London, Triveni Dance Company, London, Málaga Danza Teatro, Covent Garden Opera House and Zürcher Ballett.

In 1986 Pablo Ventura becomes “Choreographer in Residence” of The Place Theatre in London, and in the same year he founds the Ventura Dance Company, for which he will create 20 choreographies and four dance videos to date. Other works have included choreographies for contemporary operas, music theatre, film and videos.

In 1996 he starts to work with the computer-program ‘Life Forms’. Five choreographies come about, which uses the possibilities of modern technology. The works create an area of tension between the traditional means of dance and the expression of computer-created dance. They topic the relationship between man and machine. About his experiences in researching dance and technology Pablo Ventura holds conferences in Volgograd, Dresden, Dessau, Düsseldorf, Lausanne, Aarhus, and Las Palmas.

Prizes: 1999 city of Zurich; 2000 CYNETart-festival of Dresden; 2001 CYNETart-festival of Dresden, 2002 Kanton Zurich.