La Quijá Paloma Muñoz

A journey to the inside, to the very substance that resides in the bones in order to dance from the marrow. To return to the body not only as an individual, but as a collective, in the quest for a personal and shared encounter.

The term ‘Quijá’ makes reference to the jaw of the animals. Inspired by the Extremaduran Siberia (birthplace of the choreographer Paloma Muñoz), La Quijá is a work that inquires into memory, into its voids and the breeze that crosses them. It is a dance of repercussions, of past phantoms, and present fantasies. A search for a common root. A journey to the inside, to the very substance that inhabits our bodies. A dance from the marrows, pointing at the sky with the jaw and crushing it.

Paloma Muñoz, choreographer and dancer, started her career through Spanish and European professional theatres from her graduation thesis in the Institut del Teatre, entitled La piel vacía (2018). In her own theatre company ‘Siberia’, she works on her own projects, but she also acts as invited choreographer for international companies from Switzerland, Italy, or Germany. She is a resident artist in the Mercat de les Flors for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons. La Quijá was premiered in October 2024 and it is considered to be her first big-format work.

Produced by Mercat de les Flors, as part of the program for creation support called CÈL·LULA

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