Schedule for Ballet Nacional de Espana: Dualia. La Leyenda. 2022


Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Ballet Nacional de Espana
Director: Jose Antonio

Dualia

Choreography: Rojas and Rodriguez
Music: Jose Nieto
Musical Recording: Orquesta de Camara Andres Segovia, directed by Jose de Eusebio
Lighting Design: David Perez
Costume Design: Rosa Garcia Andujar
Assistant Costume Design: Hugo di Perna
Costume Production: Pipa & Milagros (women), Luis Fernando Dos Santos (batas de cola), Gonzalez ( men)
Shoes: Arte FyL and Gallardo

In the ballet Dualia by choreographers Carlos Rodrigues and Angel Rojas, a new generation of dancers with the National Ballet of Spain is thrilling audiences with their dance plastique, expression of movement, feeling of sensitivity and youthful energy.
"Our intention with Dualia was to deal with Spanish dance and breath in the youth and freshness of this generation with such a rich repertoire, seeking the complicity of pair dancing, interpreting the sensuality of looks, caresses, kisses, reminding ourselves of the great dancers our country has produced, to try to portray our meaning and feeling through the rasping of the castanets".
Carlos Rodriguez and Angel Rojas

La Leyenda

Original Idea: Jose Antonio
Choreography: Jose Antonio
Music: Jose Antonio Rodriguez (Rondena and Alegrias: Juan Requena. Embrujo del Fandango: Rafael Marinelli)
Lighting Design: Juan Gomez Cornejo (AAI), Paloma Contreras
Dress Design: Pedro Moreno
Scenography Design: Jose Antonio
Costume Production: "El Salao" & Gonzalez
Scenography Production: Mambo Decorados
Shoes: Arte FyL

The ballet The Legend is dedicated to the work of renowned Spanish dancer Carmen Amaya, who performed in a flamenco troupe at the Cafe del Manquet in the 1930s. The passionate and insistent manner of her dance was so bewitching that gradually a myth grew up about flamenco being a universal image for the Spanish temperament. In her proud dance pose, taught as a string, Carmen Amaya was caught in a memorial built in honour of this great dancer in Barcelona, and her legendary image comes to life in the art of young performers with the National Ballet of Spain.
"La Leyenda springs from these memories in a modest personal tribute, a piece created by Jose Antonio with affection and admiration. The proposal harbours no biographic or mimetic intention - Carmen was so utterly unique that any attempt at imitation would be futile, but simply designs to portray, in images, an allegory of certain moments of her life and art, her strength and frailty, her grandeur and solitude".
Rosalia Gomez