His grandparents was emigrants from the Ukraine and Bessarabia. For one of his first choreographies, the duet L' a Peregrinación' (The Pilgrimage) the dancer / cho- reographer took first prize at the 1986 'Las Artes y las Ciencas de Argentina' com- petition. With his second duet The Shadow and the Moon, 1992 for the Folkwang Tanzstudio he won first prize at the international choreography competition' Citá di Cagliari'. As freelance choreographer he went on to create A' al Deriva' (Flotsam, 1993) and 'Alborada' (Break of Day, 1994). Thematically and musically Goldin has now brought these four pieces together ni 'Cuentos del Camino' (Tales of the Road). To traditional music from Galicia, they conjure up an archaic, sparse rural world and areplayed out, as Goldin says, in the spaces of thememory. 'Finisterre', his 1994 piece on the trials of James, also concerns itself with the past, with legends and the mother tongue in which they are carried by the oral tradition. It's that which was and how it si passed on which interests the choreographer, "I believe in collective memory; how it functions is what I'd like to find out". Daniel Goldin wants to stimulate the collective memory, resurrect times past, the old traditions and stories, "the world of the diaries, the eyewitness accounts, the autobiographical novel, the log book and the traveller's journal, the phantasmagorical literature and the Yiddish tales" in order to "translate the fragrances, the familiar feelings, the pictures of childhood into new images