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 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.

Gorka Antón
AERIAL TEACHER
Gorka Antón Aparicio is a health psychologist, neuropsychologist and aerial acrobat. He has been practising aerial acrobatics since 2019, his specialities are: canvas, hoop and pole dance. He has worked in different schools: La fabrika (Leioa), Karola (Bilbao), Dantzaka zirko espazioa (Bilbao), Dance Chic (Bilbao). She has received external training in various intensives and private classes with international and national artists. He is currently part of an orchestra ‘Kapitana Show’ where he performs in hoop, fabric and dance. International pole dance competitor:
– 1st place Aerialemotion Pole Artistic Men (Slovakia)
– 2nd place Elevate Pole Championship Duo (Turin)

Alicia Rechac
AERIAL TEACHER
I am a circus artist with expertise in movement and physical theater, specialized in aerial arts (silks/rope and ladder—own apparatus). Founder of the circus company Bleda Insípida y Malicia! Currently working as an artist in the new project by Rouge Elea, featuring a design inspired by the ladder from “El no drama,” the first project of Bleda Insípida.
Architect (ETSAM) specialized in experimental projects and ephemeral-scenic structure design, under the name Las Hijas de Fuller.
Has acquired training through intensive courses such as Deltebre Danza, with instructors like Pau Portabella, Roberto Magro, Elodie Doñaque, Roseta Plasencia, Nacho Ricci, among others. Currently undergoing dance training with Mutis.(one-year training in contemporary dance with different international guest instructors each month).

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.

Lidia
AIRYOGA TEACHER
After years living abroad, the pandemic brought me back to Bilbao. It was the same pandemic that gave wings to my passion for acrobatic yoga and I started to combine my office work with different yoga modalities: aerial, inverted and vinyasa.
I have always understood sport as an escape, but it wasn’t until I started my master’s degree that my low state of mind (the demands of my studies, the bad Dutch weather and the physical and emotional distance from home, among others) pushed me to explore other forms of movement much more conscious and I understood that sport is even more than an escape: it is a cure and a healer.
Since then I have continued training in aerial yoga, aerial acrobatics, verticals, acroyoga… anything that involves flying 😉.
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

Ane Zapirain
School management
Ane Zapirain Gorostegi (Bilbao, 1997)
Graduated in Advertising and Public Relations at the UPV/EHU. At the age of three she began training in Basque dances and ballet, moving on to more urban styles throughout her adolescence, until she became acquainted with contemporary dance. She continues to work as a dancer at La Factoría Centro Coreográfico (Pamplona, 2022) and Mutis Espazioa (Leioa, 2023). Ane works in the management of Dantzaka Zirko Espazioa.

