The Language of Lines
Leonor Leal

  Friday, October 18
  7:30 p.m.
  €5*
MUN Theater
*If you have a ticket for any Museo en Danza show, you can get an invitation to this performative lecture on Spanish dance.

A lecture that discusses the body and what we feel when we dance.

This proposal arose from a question that a spectator asked dancer Leonor Leal after seeing her perform: "What do you see when you dance?" "I realized that I didn't have the words to describe it," says the young dancer. "I don't move in the world of words, but I felt I had a lot to say. We never talk about what happens to us when we dance, and this idea encouraged me to create this project. I researched and found almost nothing, except for a lecture given by Antonia Mercé La Argentina in Paris, in which she talked about the body and what we feel when we dance."

The Language of Lines is a danced lecture on notation, learning, and choreographic creation based on Antonia Mercé, La Argentina. The lack of written material by flamenco dancers led Leonor Leal to discover the lecture of the same name that La Argentina gave at the Salon Santé-Beauté in Paris shortly before her death. 

From there, her creation answers the question of whether dance and speech can be translated simultaneously to draw images, doubts, and desires in successive choreographic rewritings in the air and on paper.


ARTISTIC CREDITS
Lecture, research, and dance: Leonor Leal
Dramaturgical support: Cecilia Molano
Research support: Victoria Pérez-Royo
Contributions to the process: Pedro G. Romero and Cisco Casado
Special thanks to: Fernando Lima, Alysson Maia
 

LEONOR LEAL
A unique dancer with solid training in classical and Spanish dance. She found in flamenco the perfect vehicle to develop her talent. Her versatility allows her to adapt to very diverse contexts and take on challenges that open doors for her to continue growing as an artist.

He began his career as part of important flamenco companies such as the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, which was then directed by Cristina Hoyos. In 2008, he presented his first show, "Leoleolé," which was followed by others in different formats: "eLe eLe" (2011), "Mosaicos" (2012), "La mujer habitada" (2012), "El Verbo en tu boca" (2014), "Naranja amarga" (2013), "Frágil" (2015), "J.R.T. pintor y flamenco" (2016), "Nocturno" (2018), and "En talleres" (2019). The most recent and most ambitious in terms of set design and music is LOXA, estampas y bailes a partir de los experimentos radiofónicos de Juan de Loxa (LOXA, scenes and dances based on the radio experiments of Juan de Loxa), presented at the 21st Seville Flamenco Biennial in 2020.

Leal combines all these productions with a wide variety of projects and initiatives, including theater, educational pieces, video dances, and compositions with diverse musical frameworks, ranging from baroque to contemporary music.

Her career as a soloist has been recognized with various awards, such as 'Outstanding Dancer' at the 2008 Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition in Madrid, and the award for 'Best New Artist' at the 2011 Jerez Festival, as well as nominations for Best Female Dance Performer and Best Dance Show at the 23rd Max Performing Arts Awards in 2020.

He exhibits his pieces in many of the major European and American flamenco exhibitions, such as the Biennials in Seville and Holland, and the festivals in Jerez, Dusseldorf, Esch-Luxembourg, Nîmes, Mont de Marsan, Toulouse, London, and New York.

She studied Music Education at university and has combined her artistic career with teaching since the beginning, being continuously sought after as a teacher in schools and international flamenco festivals around the world.