COMPAÑIA NACIONAL DE DANZA
JOAQUIN DE LUZ, Artistic Director
Biography
Programs
CASI-CASA
Choreography : Mats Ek
Assistants : Mariko Aoyama and Ana Laguna
Music : Fleshquartet
Sets and costumes : Peder Freiij
Lights : Erik Berglund
Length : 44 minutes
Premiere the May 16th 2014 at the Teatro Central de Sevilla
"I watch a lot of film and theater. And look at a lot of art. But what's important to me most is reading the newspaper, watching my children, watching animals move in the park, watching the traffic - things that are not meant to be seen. Social staging, as such, is very rich". Mats Ek
SOIREE NACHO DUATO
REMANSOS / WHITE DARKNESS / MORGEN (new work 2022)
REMANSOS
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Enrique Granados
Costume and Set Design: Nacho Duato
Lighting Design: Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.), after the original design by Nacho Duato and Brad Fields
Duration: 23'
WHITE DARKNESS
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Karl Jenkins (Adiemus Variations -Adiemus-Songs of Sanctuary-, String Quartet nº 2, Passacaglia)
Costume Design: Lourdes Frías
Set Design: Jaffar Chalabi
Lighting Design: Joop Caboort
Duration: 24' 50''
MORGEN
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Pedro Alcade
Set and costumes Design: Nacho Duato
Lights Design: Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)
Duration: 30' (approx.)
With this programme, Joaquin de Luz wishes to add Nacho Duato's name to the company's repertoire once again. Two emblematic pieces from Nacho Duato's repertoire are added to a new exclusive creation by the choreographer for the company. A commission from its new artistic director Joaquin de Luz.
Remansos
You might as well live. Remansos, premiered in New York by the American Ballet Theater on November 1997, received mayor praise by the critics. Expressive strength, geometric lines, dynamic use of space and forms, were some of the remarks on the work by Duato. On the basis of that first version, the choreographer extended the piece for Compañía Nacional de Danza, choreographing three of the most beautiful popular dances by the composer on this occasion to create this Remansos.
White Drakness
The choreographer researched choreographic formulae through the movement and starting from a deep musical knowledge. These choreographic formulae enlarge his vocabulary departing always from the dancers' potential expressiveness.
Morgen
Duato gets back with a new creation for Compañía Nacional de Danza. Next world premiere for CND, Morgen, is due on February 25th at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Santander (Spain). Nacho Duato was artistic director of CND during 20 years (1990-2010).
Resumé, Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
CARMEN
Choreography : Johan Inger
Assistant choreographer : Urtzi Aranburu
Music : Rodion Shchedrin and Georges Bizet
Original additional music : Marc Álvarez
Costume design : David Delfín
Dramaturgy : Gregor Acuña-Pohl
Scenography : Curt Allen Wilmer
Lighting design: Tom Visser
Length : 90 minutes
World premiere by the Compañía Nacional de Danza at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid (Spain), 9th April 2015
When Johan Inger from Sweden was commissioned by the CND to arrange a new version of Carmen, a work of a markedly Spanish character, he saw himself up against a huge challenge but also a great opportunity. His approach to this universal myth would have to bring on something new. To this end, Inger decided to focus on the issue of violence, approaching it with a pure, uncontaminated view... that of a child. Based on this viewpoint, Inger creates a character who prompts us into watching everything happening before us through innocent eyes, while at the same time we witness the transformation of that bystander.
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