"New Talents" dance gala
An opportunity to discover the choreographic talent of a new generation of dancers with figures from the Dominican National Ballet, the Spanish National Ballet, GR Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and the Royal Ballet of Flanders, in a gala directed by Roger Salas.
General admission: €21 and €17
Discounts for Friends of the Museum apply to general admission prices (more information here), Youth Card holders, university students, large families, groups of 10 or more people, and employees of the University of Navarra. Detailed information can be found here. This show has a Youth Section.
New forms and innovative aesthetic proposals presented by Spanish, European, and Latin American dancers. New dancers and choreographers who are committed to a dynamic and outstanding vision, demanding and virtuosic, showing us choreographic art as a cutting-edge medium.
Participating artists:
Nancy Osbaldeston and Daniel Domenech
Ballet Vlaanderen / Royal Ballet of Flanders, Belgium
Veronika Maritati and Gabriele Rossi
Royal New Zealand Ballet and GR Dance Company, Rome
Irene Tena Mora and Albert Hernández Lledó
Spanish National Ballet
Yuleidi Pérez and Marcos Rodríguez
Dominican National Ballet, Dominican Republic
PROGRAM
Duration: 75 minutes, with intermission
The Gala program will introduce us to various facets of contemporary ballet, featuring Spanish dance, the strength of Latin America as a breeding ground for new talent in creation and performance, as well as Spanish dancers who are pursuing their careers abroad.
1.“You”(excerpt from “Memento Mori”)
Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (*)
Music: Woodkid
Cast: Nancy Osbaldeston, Daniel Domenech
2.“Crossing Bach”(solo) (3 min.)
Choreography: Gabriele Rossi
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Interpreter: Gabriele Rossi
3.“Precise moment”(7 min 30 sec)
Every link in the chain of life is synchronized in time, hour, and place so that magic can happen at that precise moment.
Award-winning work at the 2015 Vladimir Malakhov Grand Prix
Choreography: Marcos Rodríguez
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach / Kevin K.O Olusola
Costumes: Carlos Ml. Sánchez / Yannette de Moya
Cast: Yuleidi Pérez, Marcos Rodríguez
4.“MyPast”(6 min. 30 sec.)
Choreography: Albert Hernández Lledó
Music: Pepe Pinto (My Little Girl Lola)
Performers: Irene Tena Mora, Albert Hernández Lledó
INTERMISSION (15 min)
5.“Goodbye, my love”(duet excerpt) (6 min 25 sec)
Inspired by José Ángel Buesa's poem "La Despedida" (The Farewell).
Physically separated and even if we never meet again, I know I will never love like this again. My heart tells me I will never forget you, but I say goodbye to you for life, even though I will continue to think of you for the rest of my life.
Choreography: Marcos Rodríguez
Music: Sebastian Plano
Costumes: Carlos Ml. Sánchez / Yannette de Moya
Voice-over: Rafael Turia
Cast: Yuleidi Pérez, Marcos Rodríguez
6.“Crossing Bach”(pas de deux) (6 min.) (**)
Choreography: Gabriele Rossi
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Cast: Veronika Maritati, Gabriele Rossi
7.“Love dipped in salt”(11 min.)
The sea, personified as a woman, tries to seduce a young man who is shipwrecked in its waters without knowing how he got there. The unconscious young man does not know that the sea is not always calm...
Award-winning work at the 25th Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition in Madrid, 2016
Choreography: Albert Hernández Lledó
Music: Mayte Martín, Pepe Habichuela, and Dani Tejedo
Performers: Irene Tena Mora and Albert Hernández Lledó
8.“Raymonda”(pas de deux from Act 3) (10 min.)
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Alexander Glazunov
Cast: Nancy Osbaldeston, Daniel Domenech
Artistic Director: Roger Salas
(*) The choreography "You" by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, excerpt from his work "Memento Mori," is presented courtesy of the choreographer.
(**) The two excerpts from Gabriele Rossi's choreographic work "Crossing Bach"are being presented for the first time outside the context of the complete work.
Nancy Osbaldeston and Daniel Domenech
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Nancy Osbaldeston was a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne before joining the English National Ballet in 2008, where she rose to become a principal dancer. In 2013, she won the English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer award and was also featured in Time Out's "Ones to Watch 2013" list of talented artists.
In 2014, she joined Ballet Vlaanderen / Royal Ballet of Flanders, where she is now a principal dancer. She has performed roles such as Aegina in Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, Clara in Demi's Nutcracker, Olga in John Cranko's Onegin, and the ballerina in Fokine's Petroushka. She has also performed works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Jeroen Verbruggen, Jiri Kylian, Itzik Galilli, and Wayne Eagling. |
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Daniel Domenech graduated in 2014 from the Mariemma Royal Professional Dance Conservatory in Madrid, receiving the Community of Madrid Award for the student with the highest grades in artistic specialization, having performed choreographies by Maya Plisetskaya, Marius Petipa, Balanchine, Agripina Vaganova, Jules Perrot, Goyo Montero, Ricardo Franco, and Ramón Oller. As a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne, he was invited to join the second company of the San Francisco Ballet, where he worked with Tina LeBlanc, Sofiane Sylve, Joanna Berman, Pascal Molat, Yannick Boquin, Patrick Armand (associate director of the San Francisco Ballet School), William Forsythe, Cynthia Harvey, Parrish Maynard, Helgi Tomasson (artistic director of San Francisco Ballet), and Stanton Welch (director of Houston Ballet). He danced in "Stone and Steel" (Myles Thatcher), "Brigada" (Stanton Welch), "Soiree Musicale" (Kenneth MacMillan), "Mozart" (James Sofranko), and numerous pieces by Helgi Tomasson, such as "The Nutcracker," "Bartok," "Giselle," "Don Quixote," and "Romeo and Juliet." He then joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders with artistic directors Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Tamas Moricz, where he danced in, among others: "Approximate Sonata" (William Forsythe), "Spartacus" (Yuri Grigorovich), as well as creations by Sidi Larbi and Annabelle López Ochoa. |
NANCY OSBALDESTON
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Nancy Osbaldeston was a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne before joining the English National Ballet in 2008, where she rose to become a principal dancer. In 2013, she won the English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer award and was also featured in Time Out's "Ones to Watch 2013" list of talented artists.
In 2014, she joined Ballet Vlaanderen / Royal Ballet of Flanders, where she is now a principal dancer. She has performed roles such as Aegina in Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, Clara in Demi's Nutcracker, Olga in John Cranko's Onegin, and the ballerina in Fokine's Petroushka. She has also performed works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Jeroen Verbruggen, Jiri Kylian, Itzik Galilli, and Wayne Eagling. |
NANCY OSBALDESTON
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Nancy Osbaldeston was a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne before joining the English National Ballet in 2008, where she rose to become a principal dancer. In 2013, she won the English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer award and was also featured in Time Out's "Ones to Watch 2013" list of talented artists.
In 2014, she joined Ballet Vlaanderen / Royal Ballet of Flanders, where she is now a principal dancer. She has performed roles such as Aegina in Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, Clara in Demi's Nutcracker, Olga in John Cranko's Onegin, and the ballerina in Fokine's Petroushka. She has also performed works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Jeroen Verbruggen, Jiri Kylian, Itzik Galilli, and Wayne Eagling. |
Date
January 27, 2018
Time
7:30 p.m.