Paula Planas Melgar

Paula Planas Melgar is a mover from Barcelona. Her nomadic childhood set her dancing in motion—and she truly can’t stop moving. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg (Germany) and later traveled to California in search of more human and less academic forms of movement, where she met Kadir, and they’ve been collaborating since then.

She worked as a freelancer with dance companies in Germany and independent choreographers from Chile, India, Israel, Norway and Spain. Her creation as a soloist Bringing the Mind Home was a finalist in Talaiotica dance contest in Spain, and it was performed in several theaters in Denmark and Germany.

She took workshops with scholarships she has been offered from Akram Khan company, Fighting Monkey, Pilobolus and David Zambrano. Paula believes the body has a unique way to heal itself when time and space are given. She wants to dig into the depths of movement as an endless exploration of collective joy.