Compañía Nacional de Danza 2

Artistic Director: Nacho Duato

Co-Artistic Director: Tony Fabre

 

GERMAN TOUR

Program Without Words Nacho Duato/ Franz Schubert * Insected Tony Fabre/ collage * Kol Nidre Nacho Duato/ John Zorn, Arvo Pärt y John Tavener

Compañía Nacional de Danza 2

Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 (CND2) was originally created by Artistic Director, Nacho Duato, in October 1999 in order to prepare future dancers for their professional lives. Subsequently, CND2 has come into its own right as a highly seasoned and dynamic company that further allows Nacho Duato’s signature ballets to be seen by audiences worldwide. While Mr. Duato choreographs exclusive pieces for CND2 the company’s repertoire also includes his previous ballets as well as works by up-and-coming choreographers. CND2 inspires young dancers and offers new and exciting choreographic visions while enhancing the cultural panorama.

 

Kol Nidre

Choreography: Nacho Duato

Music: John Tavener, Arvo Pärt and John Zorn

Sets and Costume: Nacho Duato

Lighting Design: Joop Caboort

Premiered by the Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at Teatro de Madrid, or 22 January 2009

 Kol Nidre is the name of the declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the Yom Kipur evening service. Its name is taken from the initial words of the declaration and it is a time to reflect and forgive.

This is the base taken by Duato to establish his new creation for the Compañía Nacional de Danza 2. It is a more introspective spiritual work that reflects on how armed warfare affects youths: those known as “war children”.

Insected

Choreography:Tony Fabre

Music: collage

Sets and Costumes: Tony Fabre

Light Design: Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)

Premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at Teatro de Madrid, 1stMay 2008

All the things crawling deep down inside.

Gnawa

Choreography: Nacho Duato

Music: Hassan Hakmoun/Adam Rudolph (Gift of the Gnawa, “Ma’Bud Allah”); Juan Alberto Arteche and Javier Paxariño (Finis Africae, “Carauari”); Rabih Abou-Khalil, Velez, Kusur y Sarkissian (Nafas, “Window”).

Costumes:Luis Devota and Modesto Lomba

Lighting Design:Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)

Premiere performance by the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, March 2005. Premiered by the Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at the Teatro Gran Vía, Madrid, the 18th of April 2007. In 1992 in his home city of Valencia, Nacho Duato premiered Mediterrania, searching deeper into his roots and those of his forebears, and his sense of complicity with the Mediterranean Sea.

In Gnawa, premiered by the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2005, the renowned choreographer has continued along the path he set out on with Mediterrania, seeking to transmit, through the medium of movement, the sensuality of the landscape, the true nature of its peoples. With a suggestive musical score replete with Spanish and North African sounds, Gnawa captivates its audience through its all-encompassing power and its sensual elegance, combining the spirituality and organic rhythm of the Mediterranean.

Gnawa is the name that receives in Morocco and other parts of the Magreb the members of different mystic Muslim brotherhoods characterized by their sub-saharian origin and the use of song, dances and syncretic rituals as a mean to reach ecstasy. This term also refers to a musical style of sub-saharian reminiscences practised by these brotherhoods or by musicians inspired by them. It is considered one of the main Moroccan Folklore genres.

 

Duato signed his first professional contract with the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm in 1980 and a year later Jirí Kylián brought him to the Nederlands Dans Theater in Holland, where he was quickly assimilated into the company and its repertoire. In recognition of his achievement as a dancer, Duato received the Golden Dance Award in Schouwburgen, Netherlands in 1987. Duato's natural talent as a dancer led him to begin exploring choreography, and his first attempt at it in 1983 turned into a major success: Jardí Tancat, set to Catalanan music by fellow SpaniardMª del Mar Bonet won him the first prize at the International Choreographic Workshop in Cologne. In 1988 Nacho Duato was named Resident Choreographer for Nederlands Dans Theater alongside Hans van Manen and Jirí Kylián.

Nacho Duato has been the Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza since June of 1990, when he has invited to take the position by the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

His ballets are now found in the repertoire of companies including Cullberg Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Deutsche Oper Ballet, Australian Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet Gulbenkian, Finnish Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. His choreography White Darkness forms a part of the repertoire of the Ballet of the Opera of Paris from November, 2006.

In 1995 he received the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, presented annually by the French Embassy in Spain.

The Spanish Government awarded him the Golden Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts in 1998. He won the Benois de la Danse at the Stuttgart Opera, one of the most prestigious international awards for choreography, presented by the International Dance Association for Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness in April of 2000. In 2003, Duato became the winner of Spain’s National Dance Award, in the Creative category.

 

 

TONY FABRE

Born in Nantes, France, Tony Fabre began studying ballet at the National Conservatoire of Nantes. He continued his dance studies in Brussels and Liège, in Belgium. He joined Germinal Casado’s Karlsruhe Ballet in 1981, where he remained until 1983, when he began dance as a soloist with Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXeme Siécle.

After six years, he joined the Sadler´s Wells Royal Ballet of London in 1989, working as a principal dancer for one year before moving to Basel in 1990 to join the Basler Ballet, also as principal dancer.

In 1991 he joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza as Principal Invited Dancer, where he remained until 1997, dancing numerous works by Nacho Duato and other choreographers of international prestige including Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe and Hans van Manen.

In 1997 he began working as a Choreographic Attendee, incorporating Nacho Duato’s numerous ballets into different companies, including the Royal Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Berlin Staatsoper, Boston Ballet,San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatreand others.

He took the reins of a new project in October of 1999, when he became Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza 2. From then on he has created choreographies for the Company’s repertoire.

 

 

 

 

 

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