The Andalusian Association of Dance Teams and Professionals (PAD) will deliver, for the sixteenth year, ipad awards, In a ceremony that will be held next December 16 at Sala la Fundificación.
With these awards The work is recognized … The sector in different categories: Best Hall Show, Best Street or Unconventional Space Show, Best Choreography, Best Performance, Best Sound Space, Best Lighting Design, Best Stage Space, Best Costume Design, Best Inspirational Show), as well as the Honorable Mention and the Special “Tejer Danza” Award.
The event will be hosted by Seville actress, singer and presenter Paz de Alarcón and Seville dancer and choreographer Asunción Pérez “La Chuny”. The company’s performance will be highlighted Larumbe danceWith his piece “Move the Ashes”. The awards are supported by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) of the Ministry of Culture and the SGAE Foundation.
The prizes that will be presented to the winners in this edition are prepared by the artist Maria Naranjo Cupero.
María José Vilar, President of the Andalusian Association of Dance Professionals and Groups (PAD), He says that these awards “demonstrate year after year the richness of the dance that takes place in Andalusia.” Moreover, the nominations contain pieces from almost all the Andalusian cities represented, showing that they are not focused on just one place, but that creativity breathes in every part of our society.
In this sixteenth edition the jury consists of: Christina Granados and Andreas Eilertsen, From Eilertsen & granadosteaterKompani, headquartered in Stamensund, Norway; jesus alkaid, Independent researcher, art critic, editor and curator; Enmaculada Jiménez de PablosDancer and teacher at the Conservatory of Dance of Cádiz; Candela MurilloDancer and director of the Danzahara Festival (Zahra de los Atunes, Cádiz), and Bear bodydancer, teacher, president of the Association of Dance Professionals of the Valencian Community and responsible for the Hort-Art project.
The Association of Professionals and Dance Development Companies of Andalusia (PAD) is a non-profit entity with sixteen years of experience, which brings together professionals of dance companies in Andalusia, and represents them before public and private institutions, with the aim of promoting and supporting the sector, improving their working conditions and training and contributing to their professional development. It currently consists of more than 150 Andalusian companies and professionals.
2025 PAD Awards Nominees
Best room view: “Maga y Bastarda” by Leila Tafour; “Family” by Julio Ruiz; “The Day Man Stepped on the Moon,” by Danza Mobile.
Best street view: “We’re Not Here to Dance,” by Rocio Pareja and Sergio R. Suarez; “Maja y bastarda” (For Unconventional Space) by Leila Tavor; “The Deer and the Branch” by Violeta Iribere.
Best performance: Laila Tafour for the film “Maga and Bastarda” directed by Laila Tafour; Laila Tafour for the film “Maja Bastarda” (An Unconventional Space) directed by Laila Tafour; Lola Amir for “Maldito Bolero” by Lola Amir; Natalia Jiménez for “Polyphonic Discourses” by Natalia Jiménez Gallardo; Eduardo Guerrero for “The Cloak and His Eye” by Eduardo Guerrero; Enma Montalvo for the film “The Thread of Oblivion” directed by Sia. Fernando Hurtado Dance: Felipe Valera for “The Day the Man Stepped on the Moon,” by Danza Mobile; Maria Cazeneuve for “The Landlord” from Streptococcus; Rocío Pareja for On a Clear Moonlit Night by Lucía Vasquez; Ana Salazar for “Las Yegüas” by Chloe Brulé Dauphin; Sarah Jimenez for “Night Fragments” by Sarah Jimenez.
Best Choreography: Leila Tavor by Maja Y Bastard; Rocio Pareja and Sergio R. Suarez for the song “We’re Not Here to Dance”; Lucia Vazquez for ‘Normcore-Lo Normal’; Chloe Brulé Dauphine for the movie The Mares.
Best acoustic space: Ernesto Rosa for “Polyvocal Discourses” by Natalia Jimenez: Miguel Marin for “Normcore-Lo Normal” by Lucia Vásquez; Mario Mayowa for “The Man Who Stepped on the Moon,” produced by Danza Mobile; Leila Tavor and Isabel Du Dij Mo for the film “Maja y bastarda” directed by Leila Tavor.
Best lighting design: Antonio Valente for “The Mares” by Chloe Brulé-Dauphin; Antonio Valente for “Peón Coronado” directed by Jiro Domínguez; Benito Jiménez for “Normcore-Lo Normal” by Lucía Vasquez; Xesca Salvá for the song Maja y bastarda by Leila Tavor; Diego Cosido for “The Man Who Stepped on the Moon” produced by Danza Mobile.
Best costume: Leyla Tafur, Carmen Corsano, Jorge Dotor for “Maja y bastarda” by Leyla Tavor; Gloria Trinado for “Maliki La Decadencia”; Ernesto Artillo for the film “The Family” directed by Julio Ruiz; Gloria Trinado for “Normcore-Lo Normal” by Lucia Vasquez; “The Needle in the Finger” from “Las Yegüas” by Chloe Brulé Dauphin.
Best theater space: Antonio Godoy for “The Mares” by Chloe Brulé-Dauphin; Juan Cruz Díaz de Garayo Esnaola for “Shards of the Night” by Sara Jiménez; Adela XD for “The Proprietresses” by La Decadensia.
Best hack offer: The “owners” of La Decadencia; “And the Taste” by La Imbuión; “Assembling the Body” by Colectivo La Triangular.