In the early 1990s, Mónica de la Fuente, a young Spanish theatre and dance student, set off on an overland journey to India. There, she discovered the classical performing arts of southern India and found a new way of understanding the body, artistic creation and her own identity. That experience transformed her life forever and gave rise to a professional career spanning Spain and India. Thirty years later, her daughter Nazaré – also a dancer and the same age her mother was when she undertook that journey – returns to the places that marked that process of transformation.
María Salgado Gispert
Director, filmmaker and audiovisual media editor specialising in documentaries and the performing arts. A graduate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, she spent part of her career at Telemadrid before directing documentaries for RTVE’s Documentos TV. Since 2012, she has devoted much of her work to dance-related audiovisual projects, collaborating with institutions such as the Spanish National Ballet, the National Dance Company and the INAEM. Her short films have been screened at national and international festivals including Locarno, Palm Springs, Huesca and Medina del Campo. ‘Mudras. Dancing the Invisible Threads’ (2025) is her first feature-length documentary and premiered at the Málaga Film Festival.
