There are no useless flowers Elephant in the Black Box Company

This choreography was born out of a tribute to the women of 1939 in exile in Europe and Latin America, their struggle, and their need for freedom. A struggle that balances between life and death. A game where dance, music, and poetry coexist.

World premiere

Price: €16 and €12

Articulated around the dream world of Federico García Lorca, No hay flores inútiles (There Are No Useless Flowers) offers a glimpse into the past without ever losing sight of the horizon. Without forgetting to move forward toward a new world. That gentle breeze that comes from the familiar scent of a distant relative. A playful game where dance, music, and poetry coexist, focusing beyond the dimensions of modernity on a new human architecture and the revolution of new parameters.

No hay Flores inútiles (There Are No Useless Flowers) is the latest show by choreographer Marco Blázquez, produced by Elephant in the Black Box. It is a co-creation with texts by poet Nuria Ruiz de Vinaspre and dramaturgy by actress and stage director Paula Soldevilla.

Artistic credits

Choreography: Marco Blázquez

Poetry: Nuria Ruiz de Vinaspre

Playwright: Paula Soldevilla

Performers: Giulia Russo (dancer), Antonella Albanese (dancer), Mado Dallery (dancer), Julie Carriere (dancer), and Marta Ruiz de Vinaspre (actress)

Artistic director of the company: Jean-Philippe Dury

Music: Arvo Part

Lighting: Elephant in the Black Box Prod.

Coordination: Ana Cabo

Production: Elephant in the Black Box Prod.

Marco Blázquez

Choreographer and teacher. He has 12 choreographic creations, both his own productions and for professional companies. Drift in Drain, A Fading Found, Obumbrate, Absorption, LOL, Sounen or 1? 36 or the choreography Once Upon a Time When Pigs Were Swine, which won the ECEplast, are some of his works.

Throughout his career as a professional dancer, Marco Blázquez has worked with the most prestigious choreographers on the contemporary dance scene, including Nacho Duato, Ji?i Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, and Alexander Ekman.

He began his career to “Europa Danse" (Cannes, France) in 2005. After working with a variety of dance companies in Europe, in 2009 he joined the "Nederlands Dans Theater II." and, later, with companies such as Staatstheater Mainz and Delattre Dance Company. Throughout his career, Marco Blázquez has always combined his work as a dancer and choreographer with teaching classical and contemporary dance, bringing an innovative and enriching vision to the art of dance.

On the other hand, Marco has carried out production work, communication, and management work in Germany with danceFORM, GbR. He is currently responsible for the production of Elephant in the Black Box.

Nuria Ruiz de Viñaspre

Poet and editor. She has participated in national and international gatherings, as well as in numerous festivals such as the Moncayo International Poetry Festival, Cosmopoética (Córdoba), International Festival of Women Poets (Colombia 2016), La Palabra en el Mundo Festival (Venice, 2017); The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2017, among others. Some of his works, translated into several languages, can be found in some anthologies of critical poetry, such as the recent Poetry of Critical Consciousness (2013), In Self-Defense (2014), Dissidents. Anthology of Spanish Critical Poets (2015), ras(lucid) Poetry by women (2016), Polyphony of the Immanent (2017), What it Means to Be You (2018).

He has won several awards: XX City of Tudela Poetry Prize (2014), the 2014 Rácimo Prize for Literature, and the 12th César Simón Poetry Prize for his latest work, La zanja.

Paula Soldevilla

Daughter of actress Laly Soldevila and film producer Jaime Borrell, she has been involved in acting since she was a child. She began working professionally at the age of 17. She trained with José Carlos Plaza and Miguel Narros both in classes and on stage. She worked with them for five seasons in most of their productions. Her professional work includes a stint as a translator and producer, staging texts by authors such as Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Wolfgang Bauer, Manuel Veiga, and Guy Foissy, alongside other renowned professionals such as Kiti Manver, Pedro Mari Sanchez, Rosa Morales, Susi Sanchez, and Consuelo Trujillo. In 2000, she met Juan Carlos Corazza, who would become his greatest artistic influence. With him, a new stage in his training began. During this period, the actress also developed as a teacher of acting and text analysis at the Studio itself. She currently contributes to the development of the Studio's artistic and pedagogical research as a teacher and assistant director.

Elephant in the Black Box Dance Company

It was created in 2013 under the artistic direction of Jean-Philippe Dury. Since then, its shows have featured artists from leading dance companies. Elegance, rigor, and excellence are its hallmarks.

EBB Dance Company is based on a contemporary theatrical concept that allows it to both revisit the classics and address current issues. It has produced 12 dance shows, including choreographies by artistic director Jean-Philippe Dury and other creators such as Nacho Duato and Israeli Idan Sharabi, and has gained a presence at numerous international festivals and theaters. Elephant in the Black Box is growing and diversifying its activities, thinking of dance as a whole and caring for the people who participate in its various programs.