Nacho Duato
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Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato (Valencia, 8 January 1957) is a Spanish classical ballet dancer and choreographer. After a long and succesful career, he was selected by Ministerio de Educación y Cultura Español as the artistic director of the Compañía Nacional de Danza de España in June 1990.
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[edit] Career
He studied in the Rambert School of London[1] , Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre in New York City.
He started his dancing career in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet[2] and one year later he joined , Nederlands Dans Theater[3], with the director Jirí Kylián for ten years. During this period, he established himself as one of the most important ballet dancers and he composed his choreography Jardí tancat ( Shut Garden in Catalan) in 1983, Maria del Mar Bonet composed the music and they were awarded with the first price in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, he was appointed steady NDT choreographer together with Hans van Manen and Jirí Kylián.
His choreographies have been included in the most prestigious international companies such as Cullberg Ballet y Nederlands Dans Theater, American Ballet Theater, Australian Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet Gulbenkian, San Francisco Ballet orRoyal Ballet.
[edit] Choreographic works
- Nederlands Dans Theater:
- Ucelli (Respighi)
- Synaphai (Xenakis/Vangelis)
- Bolero (Ravel)
- Arenal (Bonet)
- Chansons Madecasses (Ravel)
- Raptus (basada en la obra de Wagner Wesendonk Lieder)
- Compañía Nacional de Danza Española[4]:
- Concierto Madrigal (Rodrigo)
- Opus Piat (Beethoven)
- Empty (collage de Kobayashi, Glass, Hendrix, Sculthorpe, Shankar, Marta y Saint-Saëns)
- Coming Together (Rzewski)
- Mediterrania (collage de Maesso, Bonet, Griggs, Gerrard, Perry, Arteche y Paxariño)
- Cautiva (Iglesias)
- Alone, for a Second (Satie)
- Tabulae (Iglesias)
- Ecos (Micus)
- Cero sobre cero (Iglesias)
- Por vos muero (música antigua española de los siglos XV y XVI)
- Self (Iglesias)
- Remansos (Granados)
- Romeo y Julieta (Prokofiev)
- Without Words (Schubert).
[edit] Prizes and Awards
- 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, First prize for Jardí tancat.
- 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprije for his dancing skilfulness
- 1995: Ordre du Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (French Embassy in Madrid)
- 1998: Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Consejo de Ministros de España).
- 2000: Ninth Place Bendis de la Danse given by International Dance Association in Stuttgart Opera, for his choreography Multiplicidad, formas de silencio y vacío[5].
- 2003: Premio Nacional de Danza, en la modalidad de Creación[6].
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Página personal de Nacho Duato(Spanish)
- Nederlands Dans Theater (Dutch)
- Nederlands Dans Theater (English)
- Compañía Nacional de Danza(Spanish)
