Natalia Jiménez Gallardo’s professional career reflects a life dedicated to the study of movement as a communicative medium understood from multiple points of view. Over theyears they have explored different approaches to think from the body as a dancer/improviser, choreographer/creator, teacher, cultural agent and Shiatsu therapist.

Spanish dance, Classical dance and Modern dance became a foundation in their body from their early years of study. Over the last years they have experienced a wide range of methods and bodily experiences that have allowed them to determine their dancing bodies and explore how to inhabit the stage. In recent years they have defined their artistic practice as an improviser, establishing interdisciplinary collaborations that have offered them a more versatile, wider and moredesiring attitude towards the scene. They have been guided by choreographers who have influenced them to build their own language, feeling grateful of the way in which these choreographers made care the engine of the creative processes. These have been,among others: Risa Steinberg, Guido Tuveri, Angels Margarit, Iris Heitzinger, SalvaSanchís, Thomas Hauert, Mónica Valenciano and Cía Mal Pelo. As a choreographer and stage creator they have premiered a total of 14 choreographicworks with a national and international scope. In addition to their career as a creator, they have accompanied numerous stage projects in the current Andalusian creative scene intheater, circus and dance. As a dance teacher, they develop spaces of encounter between the artistic and the pedagogical paying attention to the power of enunciation of the bodies. They are part ofthe teaching team of important dance trainings in Spain such as SOLADA (Aula decreación coreográfica de la Agencia de Instituciones Culturales de la Junta de Andalucia)or the teaching teams of the cultural weeks of the four professional dance conservatories of Andalusia in Córdoba, Málaga, Granada and Sevilla, as well as the ones in Valladolid and Valencia. As a cultural agent, they generate training-creation projects that bring dance to all bodies.Some of these projects are: MEDANZOTOA, DANCIBERIA, PROPIAMOL or SEMANASANA. Natalia finds in Shiatsu the necessary knowledge to deepen in the qualities of listenin gthrough touch by questioning the relationship between health and the body. This understanding of the body has enabled them to research on tools with which to developtheir own method to transfer knowledge(s) from one body to another through touch.