Eva María Garrido, known as Eva Yerbabuena, was born in Frankfurt in 1970. She trained in Granada with teachers such as Enrique 'El Canastero' and Angustias 'La Mona'. She studied Dramatic Art in Seville and moved to Havana to learn choreography under Johannes García. In 1985 she joined the Rafael Aguilar company, and in the early 1990s worked with several top-ranking artists. In 1998 she performed in the City Center in New York as invited artist from the National Spanish Ballet and later created her own company. She presented her first production, entitled 'Eva', at the 10th Flamenco Biennial in Seville. That same year she performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov in a production by Pina Baush. She has danced in all the world's top venues.
In 2001 she received the National Dance Award and the Max Performing Arts Award, Best female dancer in 2014.

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After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England…)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". “Chernobyl, a natural history ? “ These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.

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