ROLANDO SALAMÉ &
Festival edition
2018
KATIA HUMENYUK
ROBERTA FERRARA & SERENA ANGELINI
SELENE MARTÍNEZ GIRON & CRISTIAN PÉREZ
Finalists
Jury
María Acaso
Jury
María Acaso (1970) is Head of the Education Department at MNCARS, a Spanish professor and researcher specializing in the area of Art Education. From the Complutense University of Madrid, where she has been working since 1994, her main interest has been focused on promoting innovation in the teaching and learning of the visual arts through formats and disruptive content. As an expert in these issues, she has participated as a guest researcher at the universities of Stanford, Harvard, The School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, KHIB (Bergen National Academy of The Arts) and the Getty Museum. As a speaker, she has been invited by different institutions, such as the New School (NY), Culturgest (Lisbon) or the Museum of Antioquia in Medellín (Colombia).
Ismael Hernández
Jury
Ismael Hernández is Deputy Director General of Protected and Natural Areas of the Ministry of Environment of the Community of Madrid, from where he works to safeguard the biodiversity of the Community of Madrid through environmental assessment, the fight against pests, sustainable rural development and the protection of the different natural ecosystems of Madrid.
Consejería Medio Ambiente de la Comunidad de Madrid
Ángela Carrero Rodríguez
Jury
Ángela Carrero Rodríguez is the Coordinator of the Youth Centers of the Youth Department of the Madrid City Council. Since 2004, she has been linked to them as Director of several Centers in the south of the City. Since 2006 in the neighborhood of Villa de Vallecas, as Director of the Youth Center «The Place of my Recess», promoted and developed numerous artistic projects, festivals and competitions in various disciplines, always betting on the DANCE in its different forms and versions. Among these projects are «Vallecas en Danza» or «BboyRequiem».
She is currently responsible for the coordination of several dance projects organized by the Department of Youth, highlighting among others the “Danzadera” and the YOUNG CREATORS Competition, which this year celebrates its 27th edition. In other professional aspects besides the artistic one, she is also responsible at the present time for the different projects that are carried out in the Youth Centers with the objective of guaranteeing a personal and integral development of the young people working in a transverse way educational, sports, health objectives community and respect for the environment, among others.
Alicia Narejos
Jury
Alicia Narejos is a dancer and choreographer specializing in contemporary dance, with a degree from the CSDMA, and a recipient of awards such as “Tiempo de Danza” and “Creajoven,” and creation and research grants at the Residencia de Estudiantes and Teatros del Canal. She has worked with renowned choreographers, such as Antonio Ruz and Muriel Romero, for 10 years respectively, participating in national and international tours, as well as video dances and medium-length films. Her time at GOOD-OtraDanza is also noteworthy. Her contact with new technologies and historical dances (with the Espai Barroc company) broadens her artistic vision.
As a creator, her versatility has led her to collaborate with visual artists such as Eva Lootz and Elo Vega, as well as musicians from the OCNE, Neopercusión, and CoroDelantal, among others, appearing in exhibitions, congresses, and institutional events of the CSIC, the Spanish Academy in Rome, the UIMP, and the UMA. She created the round tables “Encounters around the creative act” at the Residencia de Estudiantes, and her commitment to the transmission of knowledge has led her to teach classes and workshops in various schools and institutions such as the CPD Fortea and CSMA, also working with diverse groups, from children at risk of social exclusion to people with Down syndrome and Asperger’s. Her first article was presented and published in the “III CanArts Encounter” of researchers in line with the interests that characterize her: social and feminist criticism, poetics, analysis, space intervention, interdisciplinarity, and research through art. She currently leads her own company, cía. Alicia Narejos, with which she will premiere “MAL” at the Teatro Circo de Murcia in 2026.