Rubén del Olmo presents a worldwide imaginative and prescient of Spanish dance – Muricas News

Madrid. Rubén Olmo is the present director of the Nationwide Ballet of Spain (BNE), however to get there he needed to overcome a posh and generally troublesome life. He was born within the Sevillian neighborhood of Cerro del Águila and grew up in one of many poorest areas of the nation, Las Tres Mil Viviendas, the place he found that his factor was dance and flamenco. After going by means of all aspects, from dancer to visitor instructor, he turned the director of the BNE, with which he's now beginning a month-long tour of Mexico. For us it is vitally necessary to return to Mexico 18 years later, amongst different causes as a result of the Mexican public understands Spanish dance and flamenco completelydefined in an interview with The Convention

The BNE tour started on July 1 in San Luis Potosí, then it can carry out in León, Morelia, Guadalajara, Puebla and Monterrey, ending with 4 performances on the Palacio de Bellas Artes, from July 28 to 31.

Olmo was born in Seville in 1980 and when he was solely eight years outdated he entered the Nationwide Dance Conservatory. Her presents had been evident; her expertise, much more so. On the age of 14, so as to defray the bills of her profession and the fundamentals of the home –her household was very humble–, she determined to go as much as the emblematic flamenco tablaos of Seville. She received her first wage there, but additionally the celebrity that little by little has helped her to develop into a younger promise of Spanish dance.

On the age of 18, he turned one of many youngest soloists on the BNE. That first stage within the firm lasted 4 years, when he determined to make a solo profession, in different corporations and founding his personal, till in 2019, a number of weeks earlier than the pandemic, he was known as once more to guide the BNE. The tour of Mexico will final a month and can take you to a number of the most emblematic levels of the nation.

Renewal of the bond between nations

“This one-month tour is outstanding, it has plenty of work behind it and lots of organizations that assist it, each from Spain and Mexico, to resume the hyperlink between the nations. We're very glad to return as a result of, along with performing in great theaters –actually, we completed the tour with 4 performances in High quality Arts in Mexico Metropolis–.

For us it is vitally necessary, amongst different causes as a result of its public understands Spanish dance and flamenco completely, they perceive artwork and dance in the identical means that we do.

Olmo selected for this tour the quadruple program Invocation, which presents a worldwide imaginative and prescient of Spanish dance by means of most of its types. “It's a program designed for the general public to take pleasure in Spanish dance. The primary half accommodates Bowling Summon, which is definitely an 18th century quantity dropped at the forefront, however with the essence and invoking the dance masters of Spanish dance. There's a solo by the primary dancer wherein the bolero college, stylized dance and flamenco are blended. There are 49 dancers on stage and 9 stay flamenco musicians”.

Then comply with the choreographies of Everlasting Iberiaby Antonio Najarro, the place using the castanets, the Spanish cape and the Cordovan hat are blended, in addition to the approach and interpretive drive so attribute of Spanish stylized dance.