Workshop: The Reality of Doing Dance

Taught by:

Ana Cabo and Jean Phillipe Dury in collaboration with EBB dance Company.

Intended for:

Audience interested in contemporary dance. No prior knowledge of dance is necessary.

Date and time:

November 14, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Price:

General: €40

UN students: €15.

Online purchase code for UNAV students. JOV2XTM. *You must present your university ID card on the day of the workshop. 

Methodology:

Session 1:

45 min.

Ana Cabo will explain how and why to produce a dance show. To illustrate her presentation, she will discuss the key elements of producing a show.

Session 2:

60 min

On the theater stage, alongside the dancers, Jean Philippe Dury will explain how choreography is designed and how decisions are made on stage.

JEAN PHILIPPE DURY

Jean Philippe Dury began studying dance at the age of six. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet School at the age of eleven and joined the company seven years later. During this period, he also worked with renowned contemporary choreographers such as Lionel Hoche, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Laura Scozzi, Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, and Jirí Kylián.

In September 2007, invited by Nacho Duato, he joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza as a principal dancer. In 2009, Gradimir Pankov invited him to be a guest artist with Les Grands Ballets de Montréal. Back in Spain in 2010, he returned to the Compañía Nacional de Danza for the last season of its artistic director, Nacho Duato, and settled permanently in Madrid.

In 2013, Jean Philippe created his own company, Elephant in The Black Box, and won first prize at the Talent Madrid festival with Cel Black Day. In 2016, Dury began a comprehensive project for dance and young people, which runs parallel to his work with EBB and invitations from international companies (Basel Ballet, Leipzig Opera Ballet) as a choreographer.

With more than fifteen choreographies to his name, he is also resident choreographer in Leipzig. EBB Dance Company tours in the United States, South Korea, Spain, France, and Switzerland, and participates in various festivals. Dury is a bold and innovative creator, demanding in terms of performance and technique, whose choreographic career is characterized by his unique language.

ANA CABO

She holds a degree in Philosophy (Autonomous University of Madrid, 1992), a Master's degree in Cultural Management (ICCMU, Complutense University of Madrid, 1994), and a degree in Classical Dance (Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance).

She has been a member of the State Council for Culture (executive group of the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport). She has edited the book Cuadernos de Creación: Javier Martín (2017) for the University of Navarra – Theater Museum. As a guest lecturer, she has taught at the European University of Madrid, in the Master's Degree in Cultural Management at the ICCMU, and at the University of Salamanca (RBA).

From 2003 to 2015, she was Dance Advisor and Artistic Director of the Madrid International Dance Festival (Department of Culture of the Regional Government of Madrid) and creator and director of the La Ventana de la Danza Madrileña project.

She is currently coordinator at EBB (Elephants in the Black Box Dance Association).