Strength, courage, bravery, passion, generosity and an extraordinary sense of humour - that's Enrique.

He is a person with a high capacity for managing people and a born fighter who always faces life with courage.

I met him five years ago and I was surprised by his ability to face the most complex situations.

Now with his own company I can only admire again this great professional, I am convinced that with it, he will continue the work of spreading, supporting and continuing dance.

Dance is part of him and he transmits it through his choreographies, his creations and his enthusiasm, leaving his mark on the great team of dancers who adore him and always give the best of themselves.

I wish you a lot of success Enrique!

In the few words that I can describe Enrique's work is that of Passion and Intensity. He has a great gift and eye to awaken our inner passion and talents and brings that out in each one of his creations. He is a poet with a great power and sensitivity, he has a range of exploring the limits of the physical capacities and the most subtle emotions in the most simple of movements and gestures. I love his story-telling ability and the musical choices for his pieces still play in my head from time to time. I loved my time in Innsbruck and I don't think that I have ever worked as hard in my life. Still, I feel extremely grateful and deeply connected, I loved every ballet we did with him. He was able to tap into my acting and interpretation way of dancing and offered me a trust and freedom to explore all these different roles and characters that I still hold dear in my heart until this day. I am the artist that I am today thanks to the opportunities that Enrique offered me and my family. I love Enrique, admire him and respect him greatly and apart from considering him a friend and a mentor, he will always be El Señor Director para mi.

Dear Enrique

We are happy that you build your own dance company.'La Limonada'

We are sure, with your experience and knowledge, you are going to be very successful.

Not only in Innsbruck.

We wish you all the best and big success for your new La Limonada dance company!

Your friends

Sue-jin Kang and Tunc Sokmen.

Kisses and hugs from Seoul/Korea

Trabajar bajo la dirección de Enrique ha sido una experiencia profesional muy positiva para mi carrera. Artísticamente hablando Enrique es una persona capaz de ver el potencial de sus bailarines antes incluso que ellos mismos. A mi personalmente me ayudó mucho a realizar esa conexión entre la técnica y la sensibilidad que hacen de un bailarín un verdadero artista. Es una persona con muchísima sensibilidad,muy apasionada por su trabajo y sobre todo muy inteligente a la hora de coreografiar, facetas que se ven muy marcadas en sus coreografías y que hacen que el público espectador disfrute de cada espectáculo de su compañía.

There are no words to describe how impressed I am with Enrique's work. Every time I have come to the Tiroler Ballet Company, the first thing I have noticed is how the dancers are everywhere, the amount of publicity and importance given to them is awe inspiring and very moving to witness.

Likewise, I would also like to mention the remarkable amount of effort and great courage Enrique has had as a Director in providing a repertoire of the most varied, never seen before, combined of the best choreographers of the 20th century such as Duato, Scholz and Kilian, among others. Undoubtedly, his efforts have been rewarded with the most loyal audience there is, devoted to anything he premieres.

Successes like Enrique's only happen when you give your best and have one hundred percent control over your dancers, but without losing the enormous compassion to address each one of them.

All the best for the new adventure!

Meeting Enrique has been love at first sight!

His passion, and dedication, his energy and commitment to the art of dance is a source of inspiration for everyone who is working in this hard world, especially for young dancers.

I can just wish him all the best and even more success in this new path that he is starting.

In bocca al lupo Enrique!

I've worked with Enrique for the past two years, and the first thing I can say is that these years were the best of my life!

Working with Enrique changed me deeply as a professional dancer and as an artist. I will forever be grateful for the endless opportunities he trusted me with and hold them close to my heart. The environment he created and maintained in the workplace was by far the best I've ever been in. He made me love coming to work every day, his support behind the wings is only comforting, and I definitely gained a friend out of him after 2 years. Enrique's work ethic, artistic visions, and sensibility will only drive him to succeed even greater. I cannot wait to see the art he continues to make and hopefully be a part of it again one day, too.

I came to Innsbruck in the fall 2013, to visit some friends - dancers like me.

I immediately fell in love with Enrique’s work and style. In my heart I right away wished to get a contract here and my dream became true.

Since then I never left the theater, I never left Enrique, feeling that I belonged completely to his philosophy and vision of what our work, our art, or simply Theater, is.

I had many chances to dance, grow and express my truest self on stage, explore and push the limits everyday a bit further in the ballet studio -physically and psychologically-, and the artistic exchange with Enrique through all these years and all our ballets together has been so inspiring and enriching for me.

It’s now with a huge gratitude and a lot of enthusiasm that I’m looking forward to starting a new, exiting chapter, dedicated to the pure love for dance, theater, art and life.

I was taken in by Enrique at an early development of my professional career, and through his guidance, creativity and passion I was shaped into the artist I continue to be today.

I am often complimented for mimicking “Enrique” in my dancing today, and I believe that has added to my success in the industry beyond Innsbruck.

I look fondly on my time in the studio with Enrique and relished the time we spent working together. He holds great capacity outside of the workings of the Landestheater and given the chance, will go on to greater things in our industry.

I've been working with Enrique for 10 years now, and i think this fact alone says it all. I feel that he gives me everytjhing i am looking for in the dance world and therefore never considered leaving.

Enrique took me under his wing when I was very young, and made me who I am now.

His skills, knowledge, and willingness to work, have always been an inspiration to me, and day by day, still now ,I learn new things.

I can only thank him for everything he gives us every day, since the first day. Now I'm here, beside him waiting for this new beginning, new chapter, of his La Limonada dance company. I am very proud to be part of this new journey.

I will always remember the day I’ve met Enrique... The tension when he entered the studio and how in few words he changed the atmosphere and made this audition a moment of sharing.

This charismatic man that impresses and at the same time makes you feel so secured and ready. It’s is exactly what he brought to me when I joined the company and during the next 3 years.

Through his art, creativity, musicality and sensibility, he is able to make his dancers grow so much. He is teaching how to allow yourself to be vulnerable to then become stronger.

He is completely devoted to every single artist he hired and puts an exclamation point on making them look the best on stage.

His versatility as a choreographer is rare and gives so many possibilities to experience.

I’m very happy about this new beginning he is having and I’m sure it will be one more huge success for him.

He passion and devotion are the reason why he is unstoppable

I worked with Enrique Gasa Valga for 3 years. It was my very first professional contract and it was an amazing opportunity since I started the season with the main role « Frida Kahlo ».

I learned a lot with him, he believed in me and taught me everything I needed to be fully present on stage.

I will always remember the show « Faust » where I danced « Gretchen ». It was a very intense show, physically and emotionally and probably the best of my entire career.

I will be always grateful for these beautiful 3 years in Innsbruck.

Thank you Enrique!

“I first met Enrique at his company audition in 2018. I was on tour in Hawaii and was not able to attend the main audition so I flew from Hawaii to Austria for a private audition. Little did I know I would be hired right then and there.

Working with Enrique is always a good time. He loves to show off his dancers best features and my career in Innsbruck has only been great. The audience in Innsbruck has a high level of dance knowledge thanks to Enrique and I’m honored to have been able to work with him for 3 years.

Enrique will have nothing but success with his brand new company and I’m so happy to be a guest artist in it!!”

Que bonitos recuerdos tendré siempre de tí mi gran maestro de vida, me has enseñado a luchar contra el cansancio, a ser perseverante en mi trabajo, experimentar nuevas cualidades de movimiento ademas de coreografiar preciosas piezas que me han permitido crecer y convertirme en la baliarina que hoy soy.

Siempre te llevare en mi corazón valla a donde vaya, sin olvidarme de tus sabias palabras: el suelo es nuestro amigo, la música nos guía y cuidar de nuestros compañeros para así disfrutar del escenario; “have fun guys”. Con amor, Pilar.

Lieber Herr Enrique,

mit großer Freude habe ich von den Plänen für Ihren Neustart mit der "La Limonada Dance Company" erfahren!

Es ist eine großartige Idee, dass Sie in Zukunft nicht nur das Tiroler Publikum begeistern werden, sondern mit der Company auch auf Reisen gehen wollen. Sie machen Tirol damit zum Exportland für Kultur. Ich bin überzeugt, dass Ihr Konzept funktionieren wird! Mein Beitrag soll "La Limonada" schnell näher an die Startrampe bringen.

Einen herzlichen Dank für die vielen schönen Stunden, die Sie und Ihre Company uns im TLT beschert haben!

Ein kräftiges "Glück auf!" für die Zukunft von "La Limonada".

Liebe Leute,

ich komme gerade von der letzten Matinee mit der Tanzcompany. Mehr denn je braucht unsere Gesellschaft diesen Mut zur Leidenschaft, wie Enrique Gasa Valga „Madame Bovary“ vorgestellt hat. Leidenschaft und Fantasie ohne Ernsthaftigkeit und Durchhaltewillen ist nicht möglich.

Ich wäre gerne bereit mich am Sponsoring zu beteiligen. Karten für die erste Vorstellung habe ich bereits gekauft.

Ich kann keine großen Summen zur Verfügung stellen, doch monatlich für mindestens ein Jahr möchte ich Sie sehr gerne unterstützen. Vielleicht sind kleinere Summen, die verlässlich sind auch möglich.

Ich wohne in Axams, könnte aber jederzeit zwei Personen während eines Projektes in Innsbruck kostenlos wohnen. Es sind zwei Einzelzimmer”

Lieber Herr Gasa Valga!

Mit großer, großer Freude habe ich vernommen, dass Sie trotz aller Widrigkeiten in Innsbruck bleiben und uns weiter mit Ihrer Kunst erfreuen wollen! Wir verdanken Ihnen und IhrenTänzern viele inspirierende und unvergessliche Stunden!

Für Ihr neues Projekt wünsche ich Ihnen alles erdenkliche Glück - bin überzeugt, dass es ein großer Erfolg werden wird, auch allein darum, weil es Ihnen die Möglichkeit geben wird, außerhalb Innsbrucks in Erscheinung zu treten!

Das Ticket für die Eröffnung im Februar 2024 ist natürlich längst gekauft, gerne werde ich mich auch immer wieder mit kleinen Spenden beteiligen.

Alles Gute Ihnen und Ihren Tänzern!

I worked with Enrique for seven years and the memories associated with Innsbruck, the company, my colleagues and him are very beautiful. I have lived intense years of work and emotions and I owe a lot of my artistic and personal growth to Enrique. The life of dancers can be hard at times, many hours spent in front of a mirror with the aim of improving oneself and often focusing on defects and lacks, with such a self-critical attitude that can often become counterproductive. One of the things that Enrique taught me personally is that a positive and kind approach to work is the right way to progress and to release that "spark" of which you are sometimes not fully aware. Working hard and intelligently to improve, but learning to love even that flaw that can sometimes make you unique and turn into a strength. His way of creating in balletsaal is passionate and generous and often becomes a lively team effort because Enrique loves to be inspired by his dancers to whom he tries to sew roles that enhance their qualities and fit to their personalities and, above all, he wants that his guys are happy with what they dance. And then I remember so much laughter from a close group, amused and in harmony and this is by no means a foregone conclusion. I'm sure this magic will also happen in the nascent company "la limonada" so I wish Enrique and all the dancers all the best for the new coming adventure!

The very first time I saw Enrique back to March,2010 audition in Innsbruck. He is full of energy, passion, humor and dedicate himself to dance. No doubt, I wanted to join his team . Enrique is my first Ballet director in Innsbruck 2011. He is willing to give chances, and he sees people, he sees me. Thanks for taking me to your team for 4,5 years. I'm forever grateful that I start my Europe journey with Enrique.

I wish you all the best Boss. Salute :)

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