
Idoia Zabaleta Morán (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1970) is an artist, choreographer and biologist. Thanks to her her training in biology and rhythmic gymnastics, since the early 90s she has been developing an interdisciplinary interdisciplinary practice that integrates dance, choreography, plastic arts, curatorial work, teaching and curating, teaching and cultural management. The same year of her degree, 1992, founded the dance company Moaré and travelled to Holland, Italy and the USA to complete her training in new dance. Since then she has performed in various companies international level. On his return, he became involved in the emerging movement of new dance, joining the independent new dance, joining the independent spaces for the performing arts that have been emerging since the mid-1990s and the mid-1990s and organising and teaching the first university extension courses and seminars. At the beginning of the 2000s, he began to cultivate his own vocabulary, creating pieces his own vocabulary, creating pieces that have been presented in art institutions such as Artium, Azkuna Zentroa, EACC, IVAM, MACBA, MNCARS and in international festivals such as Documenta Fifteen international festivals such as Documenta Fifteen, the Choreographic Encounters of Seine-Saint-Denis, Alkantara, Panorama Rio Dança, etc. In 2008 he founded Azala, a creative space in Lasierra, Álava, which he has directed since then, and for which he received the Gure Artea award in 2017. Since 2019, he has also been part of the editorial team of Zirriborroak eta gero / Borradores del futuro and Teatros del futuro, two collections of fables that imagine the future of alternatives or utopias based on specific experiences that exist today, the first one, and the second one on theatres. In 2023, the artists' cooperative Tractora publishes Foku 2, a look at the career of Idoia Zabaleta.