Dance

Artists

Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía

Úrsula López, artistic direction

Programme

Antonio… 100 años de arte

Choreography: Úrsula López

Guest artist: María Marín (flamenco singer)

Repeater: Alejandro Molinero

Dance corps: Julia Acosta, Ana Almagro, Andrea Antó, Gloria del Rosario,  Lorena Franco, Lidia Gómez, Águeda Saavedra, Manuel Jiménez, Antonio López, Federico Núñez, Iván Orellana, Isaac Tovar

Singing: Sebastián Cruz and Vicente Gelo

Guitars: Pau Vallet and Juanma Torres

Percussion: Raúl Domínguez “Botella”

Music: Isaac Albéniz, Federico García Lorca and popular

World premiere. Commissioned by the Granada Festival on the occasion of its 70th anniversary

In co-production with the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía from the Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales

Performance with no interval

The Beginning of a New Journey

In its first edition in 1952, the Festival de Música y Danza Españolas –this was its name in that first edition– had among its protagonists the dancer and choreographer Antonio (Seville, 1921-Madrid, 1996), accompanied by his inseparable artistic partner until that time, Rosario. They danced on June 16 and 17 in the Plaza de los Aljibes with a program that included a bolero school, some of the most important dances from Albéniz, such as Asturias or Triana, and several flamenco pieces. In the current edition, to celebrate the centenary of Antonio Ruiz Soler, always known for short as Antonio, the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía reproduces that opening program in all its splendour by the hand of its nine dancers and its ballet master, Úrsula López, in charge.