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Amaia Urra

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Amaia Urra

San Sebastián 1974. Graduated in Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture, 1998, University of the Basque Country.  At the same time, she studied contemporary dance.  She has worked for and with artists and choreographers whose work interest and stimulate her, such as Juan Domínguez, Frederic Seguette, Ion Munduate, Jérôme Bel, Olga Mesa and Xavier Le Roy.
As a result of her involvement in Mugatxoan in 1999 and 2000, she began to create her own work, with the Desayuno con diamantes and No GoaL videos.  In 2002, she premiered her first piece, El Eclipse de A. In 2007-08, she created The Neverstarting Story in collaboration with Cristina Blanco, Cuqui Jerez and Maria Jerez.
In 2009, she produced the Time-Wasters video and in 2010, the La Cosa performance which she put on at different European festivals. In 2012, she put on Desaparezco, as part of Emisión 0- Mugatxoan, at the San Telmo Museum of San Sebastián  and Renuncio at the In- presentable festival at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.