Choreographer, dancer and director of the company Ibérica de Danza Manuel Segovia will lead the first of the #BNEenMovimientoPerpetuo choreography workshops devoted to updated folklore from November 3rd to 5th, 2021. Winner of the 2001 National Dance Award for Creation, he has a multifaceted training background — studying music, classical guitar, traditional dance, classical ballet, flamenco and Spanish dance at the Ballet Nacional de España School, among other centres — and a wide-ranging career that began at the Teatro de la Zarzuela and has developed in the field of reworked folklore, leading him to create his own authorial language based on traditional Spanish dance.
The reinvention of traditional dances from a contemporary perspective is the path taken by some dancers and choreographers in what is known as neofolk. As part of his commitment to the ongoing training of the Ballet Nacional de España’s dancers, director Rubén Olmo has invited Manuel Segovia, Miguel Ángel Berna, and Jon Maya to give three choreography workshops during the month of November.
