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Spanish dance: between tradition and innovation

A mixed programme of repertoire pieces and new choreographies, drawing on the tradition of Spanish dance and reflecting the evolution of stage performances across three generations of creators.

It alternates one of the Spanish classics most favoured by dancers, Ritmos, with Antonio Canales’s personal interpretation of flamenco as a prelude to a solo created by Eduardo Martínez, which revitalises contemporary dance and Spanish dance, making them open to other styles.

The director of the Spanish National Ballet, Rubén Olmo, thus emphasises the need to revive the classics without losing sight of new trends.

Ritmos

13 July 1984 is a turning point in Spanish dance. That day the Ballet Nacional de España presented at the Zarzuela a programme that thirty years later still remains in the memory of those who watched it. One of the numbers was Ritmos, a piece Alberto Lorca dedicated to one of the icons of Spanish dance, Encarnación López “La Argentinita”. With this choreography Lorca did the same that George Balanchine had done regarding classical dance, with a piece like Theme and Variations. José Nieto’s music –a score both “heterodox” and fascinating– provides the backdrop for classical-pure Spanish dance movements, a range of steps in a work ruled by abstraction and full of magnetic dynamism.

Ritmos performance (Teatro de la Zarzuela, 2009)

Arrieiro

The muleteer is an eternal traveller, a wanderer who traverses the roads, leaving the imprint of his passage behind. He carries not only loads, but also stories, scents and memories, immersing himself in the traditions and unique character of every place he passes through. In this constant coming and going, in this communion with the road and the land, he finds the true meaning of his existence.

Eduardo Martínez

Grito

Antonio Canales created this choreography for the Ballet Nacional de España. The ballet goes briefly through different types of flamenco: Seguiriyas, Soleás, Alegrías, Tientos and Tangos.

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