For more than twenty years, the Basque dancer Iratxe Ansa danced for some of the most important European companies. Basel Ballet, the defunct Gulbenkian Ballet in Lisbon, the National Dance Company at the time of Nacho Duato, the Opera Ballet of Lyon, as well as the Nederlans Dans Theater (NDT) all form part of her career path.

When she left the NDT in 2009, she also left behind a brilliant career as a dancer. A career that started upon her graduation from the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart, and which took her to hone her skills for outstanding European companies. She danced for legends of the twentieth century such as William Forsythe, Jiri Kylián, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Wayne McGregor, and Crystal Pite, just to name a few. Nonetheless, she was still far from reaching the end of her career.

Instead she was now set to begin a new chapter in her career as a freelancer. It took her across the world to work for dancers of different cultures, schools, and nationalities. She kept on dancing and creating, increasingly developing her own methodology. In this manner, she delved into matters about physicality and musicality, two principles of utmost importance in her understanding of dance, and which have helped consolidating her as a researcher of the body.

Her collaboration with Igor Bacovich began in 2013 when they co-founded Metamorphosis Dance Company. Since its inception, the company has worked in over 20 countries, creating choreographies for prominent international companies and institutions such as Lines Youth Ballet in the United States, Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Arts Umbrella in Canada, and Compañía Nacional de Danza in Spain.

In 2020 she was recognized for her efforts with the National Prize for Dance in Spain.