Know us
Dantzaka Zirko Espazioa is a new project in the central neighborhood of San Francisco, it is a space for the training and creation of dance, circus and the performing arts in general, seeking to involucrate, all audiences and all ages. At the same time wanting to get involved in the work for and for the neighborhood.
These disciplines will be merged in this space, to create a unique and open space based on the training and creation of performing arts, apart from fostering a creative space for and by the family in the San Francisco neighborhood.
A space for training, creating, rehearsing, and representing the performing arts, which is part of the network of creative spaces in the neighborhood and professional associations of circus and the federation of circus schools nationwide.
“I think you learn by practicing, whether you learn to dance by dancing, or learn to live by living”
Our team

Gloria Peón
DIRECTOR & TEACHER OF DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
Gloria Peon, trained in the circus for more than 15 years, known as a multifaceted artist, passionate pedagogue, although her career as a circus teacher began many years ago, she started her own personal s school project, 4 years ago, Dantzaka zirko.
Known as La Glo and after more than ten years teaching circus classes, especially aerial acrobatics, she starts with this project to feel that she can give it a more personalized stamp and thus be able to continue transmitting her art with more schedules and more diversity in the ages of training , as well as being able to offer a space with very good conditions to rehearse and train circus and aerial acrobatics and where also to teach yoga and acroyoga, another of the disciplines that he has studied in the last 5 years.

Natalia Suárez
AERIAL & KIDS CIRCUS TEACHER
Natalia Suárez Ortiz de Zárate graduated in Art from the UPV, belongs to the performing arts collective Tripak and combines his artistic practice with aerial acrobatics (especially cloth and fixed trapeze), which he has been practicing since 2011. He has gone through several schools; BaiCircus School (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Karola (Bilbo), Chapitô (Lisbon), Teantro Artist School (Vitoria-Gasteiz) and Dantzaka Zirko Espazio (Bilbo), where he continues to train.

Victor Medrano
CIRCUS FOR KIDS AND SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
I am Victor Medrano. I finished the course in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences along with the master’s degree to be a Physical Education teacher. Such is my passion for education that this year I have also entered teaching.
Since I was little I started in Trampoline, but the sport that I have practiced the most is Roller Freestyle, that is, acrobatics on skates inside a skatepark. In 2019 I managed to be the champion of Spain in this discipline and I continue to participate in international competitions together with the Spanish team.
I have also completed the title of acroyoga teacher with the Acroyoga Prem association in Valencia.
The practice of this sport together with the studies I have completed have offered me a great transfer to be able to acquire and teach various circus skills.
In this way I have been able to develop myself within different circus modalities such as the following: Acrobatics on airtrack and trampoline, acroyoga, contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics, slackline (balance on a rope) or juggling.

Amaia Uriarte
ACROYOGA & AIR YOGA TEACHER
My name is Amaia. I have always been an active and sportive person. The desire to understand how the world works pushed me to graduate in Physics, as well as the idea of understanding not only the environment that surrounds me, but also my own interior, led me to practice disciplines such as acroyoga or verticals. The union of these two aspects, on the one hand the understanding of the theory of forces and on the other, the development of proprioception, give me the opportunity to understand the roots of acroyoga and have a complete vision of it. I see acroyoga as a tool capable of connecting people through care and respect. I have been practicing acroyoga since 2017 and I have recently course the Acroyoga Teacher Training in Valencia with AcroyogaPrem.

Vir
AERIAL TEACHER & EVENTS MANAGER
I am Virginia (everyone calls me Vir) and I am a psychologist in social and educational intervention. In my working life I have worked in different projects and places, but always invigorating groups, with people of all ages and giving workshops on different topics in which I have been training, such as gender equality, sexual and menstrual education, violence prevention gender in young people, social networks, etc. and also aerobatics.
I’ve tried different circus and not-so-circus disciplines: I started practicing aerial acrobatics in 2019 (webs, trapeze and hoop) and I couldn’t put it down, but before that I already practiced slacklining and some stretching and comprehensive mobility. I sign up for many bombardments and I have also received training and intensive verticals, acroyoga, contemporary dance, yoga,… Now I have also encouraged myself with the skates, the point is not to stop.

Atic H.Deba
VERTICAL TEACHER
He comes from physical theater (RESAD) complemented with training in floor and vertical acrobatics (Carampa workshops) and a master’s degree in research and creation (Codarts + Fontys). He investigates from the movement to find how the technique can be used in an expressive and scenic way.

Ioar Fernández
DANCE & PILATES TEACHER
Dancer, Professional Choreographer and Teacher Training in dance, circus and theater. Graduated in Dance from the Jose Uruñuela Conservatory. He moved to Barcelona in 2004 to continue his studies of classical, neoclassical, contemporary and contact. Knowledge of Vertical Dance, Hiphop, Mime, Acrobatics, Trapeze, Fabrics, Contortion, Tai ChiYoga, Acro yoga, Aero yoga, Pilates. He is a member of Cía Markeliñe with the show “EURIA”. He created his own company in 2008 “Cía Shimmala Dance / Theater” with the idea of trying to bring his own artistic language to the stage. As a dancer she collaborates with different companies.

Goizane Casado
CIRCUMOTRICITY TEACHER
Since I was little I have felt a great attraction for the artistic world. I realized that it was an easy way to communicate, share and transform the society in which we live. I have trained in several schools of dramatic art, such as Mar Navarro, (School of Gestual Theater) At the moment that I began to discover my body and its mode of expression, I delved deeper into body expression and dance.I feel that the body is very wise and that many times we give more importance to the word without stopping to listen to what the body wants to tell us.Theater and creativity for me is like therapy, I can train in different fields as I did with education or with the world of massages, but I realize that in the end I focus everything on care, sharing and generating changes in people and in society.Art transforms and generates actions that are worth seeing.
INÉS VAQUERO
CHILDREN'S CIRCUS TEACHER
Actress, theater pedagogue and acrobat. She graduated in Interpretation at the Superior School of Dramatic Art of Castilla y León in 2017. While finishing his studies, he begins his training in aerobatics at school of circus The Light of the Delights. She has been working in theater pedagogy since 2014 with groups from 3 years old in different spaces of Salamanca, Valladolid and Bilbao. In 2019 he manages his own creative space (“El Emboscadero"), is a teacher of inclusive theater at the Valladolid School of Dance (EDVA) and as a small circus in La luz de las Delicias (Valladolid). In 2020 she received a scholarship at the Pablo Ibarluzea International School to specialize in theater physical, masks and clown. Since then she lives in Bilbao and works as a teacher and actress. with different companies, especially in street theater. Trained in dance, acrobatics, stage fight and music, specializing in clarinet. He has worked with different companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Cía David Moreno & Cristina Calleja, XYK Singers, Zolopotroko Theater, Emboscadas Producciones, A&BShows… In 2022 he creates and directs his own company "Margaritas Yellow" in search of his own language mixing music, theater and circus

Olatz Arrese
CULTURAL MANAGER
I am Olatz Arrese, passionate about culture. I have been in Cultural Management for more than five years within the Bwall Collective cultural association. The objective is to give visibility to artists from Bilbao and the Basque Country, producing events, managing, communicating, coordinating and programming in different spaces.
I have also worked at Fair Saturday as coordinator of the Festival in La Rioja, and in other projects to give visibility to women artists in the Basque Country.
I am starting a very excited new stage as a cultural manager in the Dantzaka Zirkoa space.