Awards
Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart 2020
Residence Award at Theater Pforzheim for Home (what we lost)
contact.energy Tanztheater Festival Erfurt 2018
1st Prize & Audience Prize for parasites
SoloDuo International Festival 2015
Best Solo by an Emerging Choreographer for Tian
(P)reviews
“Abarbanell has shaped a very personal way of finding his language, his identity and his way to feel at home within his trained and listened body.”
”His solo merges strength versus vulnerability, resistance versus fatigue, perseverance versus surrender, all through the virtuosity of controlled yoga movements, explosive release of withheld energy, and the danced liberations of a seemingly otherwise trapped being.”
”His sculpted muscles are vividly visible in his thin frame which seems fragile yet inhabited by a fierce force.”
Veronica Posth about HOME in Seeing Dance
“[Sebastian Abarbanell] zeigt sich mit einer schonungslosen Schönheit, die einen unmittelbar erreicht und sich ohne Mühe erkennen lässt.”
”Auf tänzerisch höchstem Niveau traut sich Abarbanell, Dynamik in teilweise atemberaubenden Längen gegen absolute Perfektion auszutauschen.”
”Ihn auf seiner Suche zu begleiten, bei seinem Ausprobieren, Einfordern, Verstecken und Ausbrechen, hat etwas Heilendes.”
Sophie Yukiko Hasters about HOME via Apricot Productions
“Den Tanz voranbringen: Gast-Choreogrph Sebastian Abarbanell kreiert beim Ballett Theater Pforzheim ein neues Stück”
Alexandra Karabelas about commission at Theater Pforzheim in szenik.eu
“Expedition in innere Welten”
Alexandra Karabelas about commission at Theater Pforzheim in Tanz Denken
“The art was moving”
”It draws you in, fully present, to share a fleeting moment with whomever else happens to be nearby”
Margot Boyer-Dry and Tejal Rao on As we get weaker together in The New York Times
“An impressive presentation of his great skills and a well composed, original choreography”
Hanna Raszewska on Tian in Gdanski Festiwal Tanca
“Sebastian Abarbanell proved themselves with surgical precision”
James Dinsdale on Tian in Chamsko o Kulturze
“Tian, a highly technical piece that he executed with an imposing presence on stage”
on Tian in Gran Canaria TV
“Heftiger Beifall mit anerkennenden Pfiffen”
Brigitte Jähningen on Home (what we lost) in Stuttgarter Nachrichten & Stuttgarter Zeitung
KDV Dance Ensemble
“Incredibly strong dancers”
”Did not miss to show their individual strength while being quite cohesive as an ensemble”
Claudio on LAS CASAS INVISIBLES in iHeart Berlin
“Mesmeric 10-piece troupe of dancers”
Kathryn O’Regan on LAS CASAS INVISIBLES in Sleek Magazine
Sidra Bell Dance New York
“Technical excellence of every performer […] These dancers’ technique is second to none”
Jeff Myhre on Sidra Bell’s F R I C T I O N/garment in Stage Biz
“You don't get dancers more weirdly excellent”
“With Sebastian Abarbanell's expansive, ritualistic solo - finally a taste of freedom”
“Fold and contort as much as Abarbanell's uncanny body”
“Danced to perfection by this crew”
Eva Yaa Asantewaa on Sidra Bell’s F R I C T I O N/garment in Infinite Body
“Her fearless performers and collaborators, fully committed to the complex movement and theatrics, stunningly transport us to her worlds”
Nadia Khayrallah on Sidra Bell’s F R I C T I O N/garment in The Dance Enthusiast
Gallim Dance
“Performed with precision and control”
Lewis J Whittington on Andrea Miller’s Boat in The Dance Journal
“Each and every dancer should be cited: Sebastian Abarbanell, Celine D’Hont, Allysen Hooks, Gwyn Mackenzie, Matthew Perez, Daniel Staaf, Austin Tyson, Georgia Usborne, and Paul Vickers”
“Colorful flavor and physical agility of the Gallim Dance Company”
David Friscic on Andrea Miller’s Carmina Burana in DC Metro Theater Arts