Ana Catalina Román

Assistant to the artistic director

Ana Catalina Román (1)

She studied dance at the Real Conservatorio Superior in Madrid and continued at the John Cranko Tanz Akademie in Stuttgart at the John Cranko Tanz Akademie in Stuttgart. She starts as a dancer in the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen with Bernd Schindowski, continuing in Frankfurt/Main with Egon Madsen.

Since Forsythe directed the Frankfurt Ballet in 1984, she has worked under his direction as a soloist, dancing many of his works: Love Songs, Time Cycle and others created with and for her, among them: Gänge, Artifact, Same Old Story, Impressing The Czar, The Vile Parody Of Address, Enemy in the Figure-Limbs Theorem, Slingerland, The Loss Of Small Detail, As a Garden In This Setting, ALIE/N A(C)TION, Eidos Telos. He also dances works by other choreographers: John Cranko, George Balanchine, Uwe Scholz or Jirí Kylián and guests such as Jan Fabre, Daniel Larrieu, Amanda Miller and Tony Rizzi.

From 1992 he also starts working as Forsythe’s assistant, staging a selection of his works for other companies, mentioning: Australian Dance Theatre, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Gothenburg Ballet, National Dance Company, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Bayerische Staatsballett, Sydney Dance Company, Ballett am Rhein. She also specializes in teaching Forsythe Improvisations Technologies. In 2000 she started as a choreographer with Equipoise at the Ballett Frankfurt, followed by Unobserved Phases, The secret bob, Anna Tanzt, Parent(h)esis or for that matter, Handmade and How simple desire.

For 18 years she has been a teacher and Professor of Choreographic Composition at the CSDMA in Madrid. In addition to the aforementioned activities, her passion for art and cinema led her to graduate in animation film in 2002 and to take the Master in Performing Arts at the URJ in 2011.

Since September 2024 she has held the position of Assistant Artistic Director at the National Dance Company, under the direction of Muriel Romero.