Gloria García Arambarry
Specialty
Performing Arts.
Training
· PhD in Performing Arts. Rey Juan Carlos University.
• Master's Degree in Performing Arts. Rey Juan Carlos University.
• Higher Degree in Dance, Specialization in Choreography and Performance Techniques. Alicia Alonso University Institute of Dance-Rey Juan Carlos University.
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
• Specialized studies in classical, modern and contemporary dance: Jacob's Pillow (Massachusetts, USA); Milwaukee Ballet (Milwaukee, USA); Eglevsky Ballet (New York, USA); International Summer Dance Workshop, Point Park College (Pittsburgh, USA); Gaga Intensive Workshops (Barcelona, Turin, Antwerp); Hofesh Shechter Workshop (Rome);
• Stay at the Royal Ballet, United Kingdom.
· Stay at ProDanza, directed by Laura Alonso, Havana City, Cuba.
• SGAE Foundation Campus Research Grant, University of Seville. "Carmen: Myth / Interpretations / Realities".
• Congress of Contemporary Dramaturgy. Attendee. SGAE Foundation. Jorge Semprún Auditorium, Ministry of Culture. Dec. 2024.
• Seminar "Revisiting Flamenco: The Paths of an Inherited and Living Heritage". Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute. Ministry of Culture. May 2024.
• MOOC Flamenco. 5th Edition. University of Granada. Sept.-Nov. 2025.
Career path
Gloria García Arambarry has developed her professional career as a Puerto Rican dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher, based in Madrid. She currently works as a...peña her work as a teacher at the University School of Arts TAI.
She was a soloist with the Puerto Rican company Ballets de San Juan and performed in choreographic works by artists such as Petra Bravo, Gloria Llompart, and Paulette Beauchamp. She furthered her higher studies in Dance and Performing Arts in Madrid, while also performing with the Ballet de Cámara de Madrid company.
His teaching work has been developed since 2009, mainly as a Teaching and Research Staff member of the Rey Juan Carlos University and a teacher at the Alicia Alonso University Institute of Dance, in the university degrees of Visual Arts and Dance, Pedagogy of Visual Arts and Dance, Visual Arts and Dance with Mention, the Higher Degree in Dance and the Degree in Higher Artistic Education of Dance.
She designed and directed the Master's Degree in Pedagogy of Artistic Education at the URJC (2016-17). She directed the Department of Contemporary Dance at the Alicia Alonso University Institute of Dance (IUDAA) in the URJC's undergraduate and higher artistic education programs (2016-2023). She held the positions of Secretary General of the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-UNESCO) and Secretary General of the Spanish Centre of ITI-UNESCO (2016-2024).
She has been General Coordinator of the 35th ITI-UNESCO World Congress, the 1st Research Congress in Performing Arts (IUDAA-URJC-ITI) held at the Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum and the 1st International Seminar on Cultural Heritage within the framework of the European project Legends on circular ruins, held at the Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum. She was a Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy from 2017 to 2019.
Subjects and workshops
· Contemporary Dance- 2BPA
· Choreography- 3 BPA
· Substitutions in: Movement and Gesture, Body and Gestural Expression, Basic Dance Tools, Contemporary Dance and History of Performing Arts.
• Choreographer of the musical "Taller de Migrantes" (Migrant Workshop) as part of the European project TransMigARTS. (July 2025)
Research lines
Contemporary dance, improvisation practices, dance research, musical theatre, movement analysis oriented to choreography, phenomenology of perception and dance, theories of the body, dance and literature, creative processes, research-creation methodology, relational aspects in the teaching and learning processes in dance, movement processes, body research for performers, the interdisciplinary dimension in dance, care in artistic environments.
Other merits
CONFERENCES / CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / PUBLICATIONS
VI International Research Seminar "Phersu". Speaker. Paradigms of social justice in danceKing Juan Carlos University, Madrid Campus. January 2026.
Second Congress on Humanism and Pedagogy for Artistic Education. Rey Juan Carlos University, Vicálvaro Campus. Speaker. Panel: The Role of the Teacher-Artist: Interdisciplinarity and New Scenic Narratives Between Creation and TeachingOctober 2025.
V International Research Seminar "Phersu". Speaker. The dance classroom as a space of peace: relational harmony as an educational competenceKing Juan Carlos University, Vicálvaro Campus. March 2025.
4th Congress of Art, Research and Education AIE. University School of Arts TAIMadrid. Speaker. Panel: TransMigrARTS Project: five years of artistic research with migrant communities. November 2025.
III Congress of Art, Research and Education AIE. University School of Arts TAIMadrid. 2024. "Little Viennese Waltz" (Video Session - Rehearsals). November 2024.
III Congress of Art, Research and Education AIE. University School of Arts TAIMadrid. 2024. "Carmen's Crossroads: Dances, Bodies and Powers". November 2024.
2nd Edition NMTO 2024. New Media Technological Opportunity. Congress on Corporate Communication and Social Reputation. Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada Campus, Madrid. "The importance of the Oriented Improvisation Mode (OIM): keys to its application for the role of the journalist".
2nd Edition NMTO 2024. New Media Technological Opportunity. Congress on Corporate Communication and Social Reputation. WorkshopImprovisation is vital..
IV International Research Seminar "Phersu". Speaker. Kurt Joos's Green Table: An Analysis from the Perspective of ManipulationKing Juan Carlos University, Vicálvaro Campus. November 2024.
First International Conference on Arts and Health. Speaker: "Well-being, Well-Feeling: Notes on the relationship between dance and people's well-being." FUNANART Foundation. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. December 2024.
Literature Forum of the Escorial Athenaeum. Speaker. William Shakespeare and DanceMay 2023. Escorial Athenaeum of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
International Artistic Residency. Coordinator. Creative Europe Programme Project Genius Loci: performing arts between heritage and future. Project number: 607361-CREA-1-IT-CULT-COOP1. 2021.
First Symposium on Specialized Artistic Training. Speaker: “Heterotopias: Pluralities of Artistic Training in Contemporary Dance.” General Directorate of Fine Arts-Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic/International Cooperation Agency for Development-AECID/Embassy of Spain in the Dominican Republic/Spanish Cultural Center in Santo Domingo. Dec. 2020.
Workshop: Poetic constructions of the body. Spanish Cultural Center in Santo Domingo/Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation/ AECID/Embassy of Spain in the Dominican Republic. Oct.-Nov. 2020.
International Artistic Residency. Coordinator. Creative Europe Programme Project Legends on circular ruins. Archaeological sites + performing arts + communities. Project number: 595940-CREA-1-2018-1-IT-CULT-COOP3. 2018-2019.
First World Congress on Research in Performing Arts. General Coordinator. October 2019. Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum. ITI-UNESCO Centre Spain, Alicia Alonso Dance Foundation.
35th World Congress of the International Theatre Institute (ITI/UNESCO). General Coordinator. Segovia. July 2017.
Round Table “Thinking with the Feet. Philosophical Thought in Dance”. V International Dance Symposium. July 2017.
"Nijinsky: the dance and the dream of happiness". Conference on dance and mental health. Casa de América, Madrid. October 2014.
"The dance classroom as a space of peace: relational harmony as an educational competence." Art and philosophy in dialogue for peace. (2025) Editorial Sindéresis. ISBN: 9788410120969.
"Kurt Jooss's Green Table: an analysis from the perspective of manipulation." Art, philosophy and critical thinking. (2024) Editorial Sindéresis. ISBN: 9788410120655.