Eva Yerbabuena

Eva Maria Garrido Garcia. Frankfort (Germany), 1970.

Daughter of an Spanish emigrant worker, in spite os which she has been involved in flamenco all her life; at the age of sixteen she was already living in Granada. She is a complete dancer, with a technique that marvelously includes a most 'jondo' feeling. She started studying flamenco in Granada, with such teachers as La Mona, Angustillas del Sacramonte and Mariquilla. After that, she improved her technics with theatre lessons,with Juan Furest, choreography,with Johannes Garcia, and dance, with Javier Latorre and Mario Maya. After two years working with the latest, she started a career as a soloist, working with such people as Rafael Aguilar, Javier Latorre, Manuel Moreno Maya, Joselito Fernandez and Paco Moyano. In 1986, she did create her own Art School in Granada.

In 1992, she was awarded La Malena Prize in Cordoba for her soleá, but she refused it as she considered they had awarded precisely the dance she considered she had danced worse and that other prizes were not deserved due to their quality. In 1997, she was featured in "Flamenco Women", a documentary film directed by Mike Figgis. She dances with the Ballet Nacional de España since 1998.
She was married to the guitarist Paco Jarana.