Álvaro de la Peña created Iliacan in august 1993. The name ILIACAN come from the Arabic work "aliacan" used in southern Spain and suggests a bewitchment.
We feel it's important to explain this to you.
Because we, as others who dedicate time to what they desire and commit
themselves by personal choice. They will be a bit bewitched, with no
doubt and touched by the invisible hand of destiny, which on a daily
basis is hardly definable. But it's a choice. In our case and with our
dance we hope to exert on the spectator a kind of separation of
emotions or thoughts. If we manage to achieve this, we'll be satisfy
knowing that our work has moved you.. . This is our job, nothing else.