Muriel Romero (Murcia, 1972) began her studies of Classical Dance, Spanish Dance and Music with Alicia Monteagudo Ros. At the age of 11 she moved to Madrid to enter the National School of Dance directed by Maria de Avila, where she continued her training with the teacher Lola de Avila. At the same time, she studied classical dance in the free examination category, obtaining honors in all her courses.
At the age of 14 she won the 1st National Prize of Classical Dance in the competition Ciudad de Barcelona and at the age of 15 she obtained the Prix du Paris in the prestigious international competition Prix de Lausanne. At the age of 16 she joined the cast of the National Dance Company under the direction of Maya Plisétskaya, where she had the opportunity to dance a wide repertoire of classical ballet performing leading roles in works such as Paquita by Marius Petipa, Les Sylphides by Michel Fokine and The Four Temperaments by George Balanchine. In the same year, she entered the renowned International Ballet Competition in Moscow, winning three awards: Mikhail Baryshnikov Prize, Critics’ Prize and the Audience Award. It is as a result of this competition that she made her international breakthrough as first soloist of the Bayerische Staatsballett in Munich, expanding its repertoire with works of the XIX and XX century.
In 1993 she performed at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, at the Gala of Stars at the Mariinski Theater in St. Pertersburg and consolidated her classical dance career as prima ballerina at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 1995 she returned to the National Dance Company under the direction of Nacho Duato, where she worked with the most contemporary choreographers of the 20th century, such as Jiri Kylián, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe and Saburo Teshigawara.
In 2000 she began her career as a freelance artist to explore new formats, collaborating in projects with avant-garde choreographers and playwrights such as La Ribot, Sasha Waltz, Cisco Aznar, Mateo Feijóo and Unterwegs Theater. She will finally complete her career as a soloist with the company Grand Théâtre de Genève and later, from 2006 to 2008, as first soloist at the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden, under the direction of the Canadian Aaron Watkin, where she deepens her artistic relationship with the choreographer William Forsythe.
In 2008 he founded the Stocos Institute in Madrid, together with composer Pablo Palacio, a transdisciplinary project that combines dance, music, mathematics, experimental psychology and artificial intelligence. In his stage creations he has developed an original vision from the body, as a place from which sound, image and light emanate interactively. Many of his works have been performed in festivals in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
In addition, he has participated and promoted successful and prestigious European projects in the field of dance, together with other institutions such as the Polytechnic of Milan, the University of Genoa (Casa Paganini), the Conventry University or the Motion Bank, the dance and technology project of the Forsythe Company. In the context of these projects she has developed new techniques and technologies oriented both to the creation and teaching of dance, and to the preservation of the European choreographic heritage through new technologies.
In 2021 she enjoys the scholarship in the Performing Arts modality at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, where she develops a research on the relationship between visual arts, dance, interactive music and artificial intelligence, which is embodied in the choreographic work Risonance Occulte with music by Pablo Palacio, distributed in different scenic and filmic formats, at the Galleria Nacionale d’Arte Moderna and at the Tempietto of Bramante in the city of Rome.
In 2022, he presents a new production with the Stocos Institute of the work Embodied Machine, with premiere at the Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona). In recent years he has worked on a new european project of the Horizont Europe program.
Since September 2024, she holds the position of director of the National Dance Company.
