{"id":1428,"date":"2019-02-28T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/?page_id=1428"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:42:17","slug":"directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NATALIA MEDINA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF MASDANZA, THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL OF THE CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natalia Medina<\/strong> is the Founder and Director of<strong> MASDANZA<\/strong>. She holds a degree in Physical Education by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a Master\u2019s degree in Scenic Arts by King Juan Carlos University of Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is involved in many areas of artistic activity involving dance, including performances, formation, creation, direction, and management, specializing in the contemporary expression of this discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996 she founded <strong>MASDANZA<\/strong>, The International Contemporary Dance Festival Of The Canary Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Directora-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Directora-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Directora-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Directora-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Directora.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999 she created her own dance ensemble: The Natalia Medina Dance Company. Since then, she has toured Spain and several countries around the world with different contemporary dance productions. She continues to be the Company\u2019s Artistic Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalia is also the Director of the social project <strong>ACROSS HIP-HOP LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA<\/strong> a project designed to bring dance to young people from the different districts of her hometown, thus creating new audiences for contemporary dance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, she inaugurated <strong>ACROSS HIP-HOP LANZAROTE<\/strong>, expanding the project to that island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATALIA MEDINA FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF MASDANZA, THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL OF THE CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN. Natalia Medina is the Founder and Director of MASDANZA. She holds a degree in Physical Education by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a Master\u2019s degree in Scenic Arts by King Juan Carlos University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3500,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6977,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428\/revisions\/6977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masdanza.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}