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 successful career, he was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education as the artistic director of the National Spanish Dance Company (Compañía Nacional de Danza de España) in June 1990.
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[edit] Career
He studied at the Rambert School of London[1] , Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 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 artistic director Jiří Kilián 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 Jiří Kilián.
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, Royal Ballet or Paris Opera Ballet.
[edit] Choreographic works
- Ucelli (Respighi)
- Synaphai (Xenakis/Vangelis)
- Bolero (Ravel)
- Arenal (Bonet)
- Chansons Madecasses (Ravel)
- Raptus (Wagner Wesendonck Lieder)
- Compañía Nacional de Danza[4]:
- Concierto Madrigal (Rodrigo)
- Opus Piat (Beethoven)
- Empty (collage de Kobayashi, Glass, Hendrix, Sculthorpe, Shankar, Marta y Camille Saint-Saëns)
- Coming Together (Rzewski)
- Mediterrania (collage de Jerónimo Maesso, Bonet, Peter Griggs, Lisa Gerrard, Perry, Juan A. Arteche and Javier Paxariño)
- Cautiva (Iglesias)
- Alone, for a Second (Satie)
- Tabulae (Iglesias)
- Ecos (Micus)
- Cero sobre cero (Iglesias)
- Por vos muero (Spanish music from the XV and XVI centuries)
- Self (Iglesias)
- Remansos (Granados)
- Romeo y Julieta (Sergei Prokofiev)
- Without Words (Schubert)
- Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Herrumbre (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero)
- Diecisiete (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero)
- Hevel (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero).
[edit] Prizes and Awards
- 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, First prize for Jardí tancat.
- 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprije for his dancing skilfulness
- 1995: The grade of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres which is awarded annually by the French Embassy in Spain.
- 1998: Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Council.
- 2000: Benois de la Danse awarded by 'the 'International Dance Association at the Stuttgart Opera, for his choreography Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Multiplicidad, formas de silencio y vacío). [5].
- 2003: Awarded the Spanish National Dance Award (Premio Nacional de Danza) for choreography[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)
