As part of the Madrid en Danza Festival 2024, The Spanish National Ballet will première a flamenco show based on the photographic vision of this art by Ruvén Afanador from Colombia on 23 and 24 May at the Teatros del Canal (Sala Roja).
With music by Cristóbal Saavedra, Marcos Morau, who was trained between Barcelona and New York, director of the La Veronal dance ensemble and winner of the 2013 National Dance Prize, has designed a production that fuses Afanador's perspectives with the aim of constructing a new artistic universe. Morau seeks to transfigure one legacy into another and generate a common place where the voices of different art forms can collaborate and inspire others.
The work pivots around photographic series such as Mil Besos (2009) and Ángel Gitano (2014), in which Afanador incorporated the image of flamenco into contemporary visual language in a very personal way. These shots were taken in high-contrast black and white under the Andalusian sun to create striking plays on light and shadow.
Marcos Mora Ureña, better known as Marcos Morau, is a choreographer born in Onteniente (Valencia) in 1982. Also versed in photography and playwrighting, he studied at the Dance Conservatory in Valencia and the Movement Research in New York (USA).
In 2005, he founded his own company, La Veronal, a group made up of professionals from the fields of dance, film, theatre, literature and photography, which is committed to an artistic language between abstraction and narration with the aim of establishing culturally diverse spaces.
Born in 1959 in Bucaramanga (Colombia), Ruvén Afanador is a photographer who is famous for his distinctive style that combines elements of fashion, culture and sensuality. Afanador has worked with leading fashion and society magazines, such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle or Rolling Stone. He has also portrayed personalities, such as Gabriel García Márquez, George Clooney, Al Pacino, Céline Dion, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Artistic File:
- Music - Cristóbal Saavedra
- Choreography - Marcos Morau & La Veronal, Lorena Nogal, Shay Partush and Jon López
- Playwright - Roberto Fratini
- Stage Design - Max Glaenzel
- Costume Design - Silvia Delagneau
- Lighting Design - Bernat Jansà
- Audiovisual Design - Marc Salicrú
- Photography - © Merche Burgos
Approximate Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes (without an interval)
