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Marina Mascarell (Oliva, Spain,1980) is a choreographer based in The Netherlands.

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Spanish choreographer Marina Mascarell (1980) studied Pedagogy applied to Dance and Performing Arts in Madrid. Starting her career as a dancer, she won the award for Outstanding Dancer in the XIX Choreographic Competition of Madrid, and with it a scholarship to the American Dance Festival in North Carolina.

Marina Mascarell danced with the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 & 2 and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York. She has been invited to teach her choreographic movement at international festivals and institutions such as Salt Dance Fest in Utah, Open Look Sz. Petersburg and STRUT Choreographic Centre in Perth, Australia.

Since 2011 Marina Mascarell has been dedicating herself full time to the art of choreography – creating poetic, political, intimate and socially political works. She has made pieces for Nederlands Dans Theater I (Upcoming Choreographers), Scapino Ballet, Dance Forum Taipei, Göteborg Danskompani, Skånes Dansteater, Lyon Opera Ballet among ot

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Marina Mascarell (Oliva, Spain,1980) is a choreographer based in The Netherlands. Resident Choreographer at Korzo Theatre in The Hague between 2011-21 and Associated Artist at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona since 2018.

In her art the reflexions, inquiries and concepts turn into a poetic fight, where thought transforms into corporeality and movement. Marina is interested in a rebellious body characterized by questioning ‘normativity’. In the dancing body as a form of resistance, deeply rooted in a political and social action.

Beside her independent work Marina has also been commissioned to create pieces by different institutions such as GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Biennale de la Danse of Lyon with Lyon Opera Ballet, Skanes Dansteater, Dance Forum Taipei or Nederlands Dans Theater. She collaborates as well with fellow artists in the fields of visual arts, film, music and theatre.

Her work has been seen in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Taiwan, China, Korea, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. She has been recognised and awarded with several prizes