Performer and co-director of Led Silhouette

After training at different dance schools in the Basque Country and graduating in Physics, Martxel started his career at Dantzaz Konpainia in 2013, working with choreographers such as Itzik Galili and Jone San Martin. In 2014 he travelled to Holstebro (Denmark) to work at the Black Box Dance Company and attended, at the same time, the Gaga Winter Course in Tel Aviv. In 2015 he returned to the Basque Country to be part of the Oskara project, a collaboration between Kukai Dantza and Marcos Morau – La Veronal.

Martxel was nominated for Best Male Performer at the 2017 MAX Awards for this successful work. At the 2018 DNA Festival he participated in GALA by Jérôme Bel. In 2019 he was nominated as Best Dancer at the Valencian Community’s Performing Arts Award for “Canvas of Bodies” by Taiat Dansa. In that same year he earned a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management from the Open University of Catalonia. In 2021 he received the Navarrese Award for the Promotion of Artistic Talent.

Martxel has also been working on the production team of La Veronal, in charge of the external creations of Marcos Morau in places like the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Ballett Zürich, Opera de Lyon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Staatsballett Berlin, NDT, Ballet Nacional de España (National Ballet of Spain), Deutsche Oper am Rhein, NDCWales and Atterballetto.