My name is Alejandra Balboa, yet almost everyone calls me Jani, a nickname my mother gave me since she is a big fan of Janis Joplin.

I was born in 1992. I started dancing when I was 7 years old in an academy that nowadays I consider to be my second home. The teachers Deborah and Kellen taught me to dance from their passion and perseverance, and encouraged me to leave Pontevedra to continue my dance studies when I was 19 years old. In Lisbon I took my training at the Escola Superior de Dança, where I discovered contemporary dance and a stage of infinite transition began.

I did my internship in the company Otra Danza. In the l'Escorxador studios I started to create my first solo: Do you understand anything? I try... where I explored my unconscious mind through my own gestures. It was premiered at the "Abril en Danza" show and was part of the programme of the "XV Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos & New York", "Danza Excélsior 2017", "SóLODOS en Danza 2017" and "Seis Cordas Galicia 2019", among others.

I returned to Portugal and together with Teresa Manjua, a friend and colleague from the Escola Superior, I reinvented my first solo, giving it a new vision. Together we created Trick or Treat, which was presented in Lisbon and at the "Entrelaçados" Festival.

Later, Irene’s K (Belgium) and Francesca’s Selva (Italy) dance companies awarded me a scholarship, where I developed my listening skills, which became a tool that marked the way I feel in relationship with space.

It is in the studio of Luis Marrafa (Belgium) where my latest solo was born and is currently on stage: Vertebrata. In this piece I dig deep into my vulnerability as a human being and the internal conflict between the visceral and the rational. It was premiered in the 10th edition of "Corpo (a) Terra''; I was a finalist in the program "SóLODOS en Danza 2020" and in the "IV Plataforma Diálogos Contemporáneos del Festival DZM", where I received the award for the best performer; among others.

In 2021 I write "Cuidar el proceso" for "Cara unha escena plural", a project that encourages dance in Galicia.

Also in 2021, together with Pavel Amilcar and the Orquesta Barroca 430 I give body to the opera Alcina, approaching new ways of interpreting from an emotive structure.

At the same time, I have the pleasure of teaching students of the school where I grew up, sharing my vision of dancing, based on self-acceptance, diversity and respect for the personal process.

Returning to Galicia has allowed me to get to know the professional side of my homeland and to be part of a valuable network that continues to expand and for which I feel very fortunate and grateful.

Nowadays I continue to integrate what I have learnt from each experience, accepting that they are part of my evolutionary process as a human being and as an artist. Questioning, expanding-contracting, living dance as a journey in time in which I move between the registered memories in me and its future projection.

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