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SEVILLE’S 2006 BIENAL DE FLAMENCO. ISRAEL GALVÁN
Israel Galván
offers a look back over his work
at Seville’s 2006 Bienal de Flamenco
The Sevillian bailaor, the
2005 National Dance Prize Winner, revives ‘Arena’
and ‘Tábula rasa’
The
2006 Festival Bienal de Sevilla: program / ticket sales
It had already become a tradition for Israel
Galván to offer a premiere at Seville’s Bienal
de Flamenco: ‘La Metamorfosis’ in 2000, ‘Galvánicas’
in 2002, ‘Arena’ in 2004... However, in this fourteenth
edition of the Sevillian festival, the bailaor who won the
2005 National Dance Prize is going to be present another way,
with a ‘retrospective’ of his work. At the Teatro
Central, the festival revives ‘Arena’ on September
15th – a show which premiered at the previous edition
of the festival at the Teatro Maestranza – and presents
‘Tábula rasa’, the bailaor’s latest
daring creation. Tickets are already sold out.
Israel Galván is going to be one of the stars at Seville’s
2006 Bienal de Flamenco. The fourteenth edition of the Sevillian
festival pays tribute to a bailaor whose career it has seen
develop from when, as a rising young star, he won the Giraldillo
del Baile in 1996, to the tremendous premiere of ‘Arena’
at the Teatro de la Maestranza in 2004, just before being
awarded the National Dance Prize.
On September 15th, ‘Arena’ returns to the Bienal,
but this time moving to the festival’s more alternative
stage, the Teatro Central. ‘Arena’ is a show about
the world of bullfighting and enjoys the collaborations of
Enrique
Morente, Diego Carrasco, Diego Amador and Miguel Poveda,
plus the support of audiovisuals recorded for the occasion
at the Maestranza Bullring (read
review).
‘Tábula rasa’
Seville’s Bienal also wishes to display the artist’s
latest creation, ‘Tábula rasa’ (read
review). In this spectacle, which is the bailaor’s
most recent work together with ‘La edad de oro’,
he tackles the risk of silently dancing the echo of what is
previously sung by Inés Bacán and played on
the piano by Diego Amador. The show, which has already been
seen at Flamenco Thursdays in Seville and Festival de Jerez
2006, will be able to be seen on September 17th, also at the
Teatro Central. Israel Galván will appear again in
the program of the Sevillian festival, but as a choreographer
in ‘La Francesa’, a show starring bailaora Pastora
Galván which is to premiere on September 16th at
the Teatro Central.
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