Recently appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as Best Choreographer of the Year 2023 by the German magazine TANZ, the career of Marcos Morau (Valencia, 1982) continues to rise as a creator and stage director.

Trained between Barcelona and New York in photography, choreography, theatre theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature.

Since 2004, Marcos has led La Veronal, a company featured in the most prestigious theatres and festivals in over thirty countries: Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Festival d’Avignon, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival in Seoul, Sadler’s Wells in London, Danse Danse Montreal, among many others.

In addition to his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is an international guest artist at various companies and theatres where he develops new creations, always positioned between the performing arts and dance: Nederlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Danish Ballet, and The Royal Ballet of Flanders, among others.

As the youngest artist ever to receive the National Dance Prize, the highest distinction for dance in Spain, the future of Morau and La Veronal is focused on the pursuit of new formats and languages, where opera, dance, and physical theatre enter into deeper dialogue than ever before, seeking new ways to express and communicate in our present time — turbulent and ever-evolving.

As of this season, he is an associate artist at Staatsballett Berlin.

“La Veronal is a reminder that dance is often at the forefront of the most innovative theatre.” – The New York Times

“Morau’s visual treatment is so brilliant, so vividly strange, that we’re drawn into what turns out to be a story of transmission and emancipation.” – Le Monde

“Morau, one of the most exciting young choreographers on the contemporary dance scene.” – El País