Diana Gadish, attends Fine Arts at U.B. and in 2007 she graduated in choreography
studies at S.N.D.O. She completes her final-year internship with David Zambrano in Soul Project and with Diego Piñón (www.butohritualmexicano.com).
In 2008 she got in touch with clown discipline, working with Jango Edwards in Cabaret Cabrón. As a clown she studied, among others, with Christophe Thellier, Fanny Giraud, Miner Montell and Jef Johnson. She has performed with her own clown sketches in numerous cabarets, festivals and poetry encounters. With one of them she won the First Prize at the Figueres Comic Festival of 2011.
As a performer she has worked in dance, theater, clown and performance art projects in several countries (Holland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Mexico), with the artists Amaranta Velarde, Maria Stoyanova, La Fura dels Baus, Joao Negro , Jeremy Wade, Guillem Mont, Katerina Bakatesaki, etc. From 2003 to 2007 she was a member of the interdisciplinary music and dance improvisation group The mOving Point (Amsterdam).
In her own creations she manages a personal and unclassifiable language, with the body and comedy as the central axis. With her works Hiccup for Home (2007), Genesis Joplin (2009), Lucy Live (2013), Handle with care (2016) and Atlantis. Sketch of a Landscape (2018) she has performed in several European and Latin American countries.
In the field of teaching, she has taught dance and body expression classes to children, adults and young people at Col·legi de Teatre, Laboratorio escuela, Escola La Falguera and Santa Isabel School. She has also given intensive clown workshops for adults and young people in different centers and institutes. In 2018-2019 she did the project En Residencia at Joàn Boscà secundary school.
Since 2015 she is working as a hospital clown with the NGO Pallapupas and teaches Paula Method (body work) classes at Laboratorio Escuela. He is also a member of CRA’P – artistic creation and research practices.