David Espinosa (Elx, 1976)

Graduate in Textual Performance from ESAD (School of Dramatic Arts) in Valencia in 1998. Since 1994, he has studied Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, C.I. and Capoeira in Valencia, Brussels and Barcelona.

Between 2001 and 2011 he worked as a performer for projects by Àlex Rigola, Sergi Faustino, Mal Pelo, Las Malqueridas, Ali Salmi (Osmosis cie. France), Lapsus - Alexis Eupierre, Sonia Gómez / General Eléctrica, Paul Weibel, and Carles Alberola, among others.

In 2006 he formed El Local E.C. Association with Africa Navarro, with which they have created the shows: Calle sombra (2020), Conferencia espectacular (2019), Una historia universal (2018), Much ado about nothing (2014), Mi Gran Obra (2012), Desconcierto nº1 para teclado y fracasado (2011), La Procesadora (2010), Felicidad.es (2009), Deliriosdegrandez@ (2007), Desaladas Club (2007) i Propiedad Privada (2006), the interactive installations El Trìptic (2017) La Triste Figura (2015) and Hekinah Degul (2013) and the street pieces Summertime (2008), Desaladas Road (2007) and Agonias de lo imposible (2006).

These works have been presented at international festivals and spaces: Theater der Dinge Berlin, Autumn to Spring Festival Madrid, International Puppet Festival Jerusalem, Eurothalia Timisoara, Wiener Festwochen, World Theatre-Varna Summer Bulgaria, Fimfa Lisbon, Mime Festival-Tate Modern London, Ganz Novi Zagreb, Culture Station Seoul 284, Helsinki Festival, Oslo International Theatre Festival, CINARS Montreal, Theatre du Passage Neuchatel, MESS Sarajevo, NET Moscu, FIT Festival Lugano, Festival de Terni, La Biennale di Venezia, Cena Contemporânea de Brasilia, Escena Contemporánea de Madrid, Alt Vigo, Bad Bilbao, TNT de Terrassa, Escena Abierta de Burgos, cicle Radicals Lliures de Barcelona, etc.