Eva Yerbabuena will celebrate
her company’s tenth anniversary at the 2008 Granada
Music Festival
Miguel Poveda, Arcángel, Marina
Heredia and Segundo Falcón take part in the show,
scheduled for June 27th at the Generalife Gardens
S.C./Flamenco-world.com, May 2008
“For everyone to sing for
me and me to feast myself on dancing”. That’s
the simple idea which inspires Eva
Yerbabuena when preparing to celebrate her company’s
tenth anniversary. She will do so at the 2008 Granada
International Music and Dance Festival with a gala with
every cantaor who has ever been in her ballet as guests.
Miguel Poveda, Arcángel, Marina Heredia and Segundo
Falcón will inspire the Granada-born artist’s
dancing on the night of June 27th, 2008, with the Generalife
Gardens as the stage.
Eva Yerbabuena on
'El huso de la memoria' (Photo Daniel Muņoz)
Eva Yerbabuena wants to make the celebration
of the first decade of her company’s career a shared
ceremony. The Granada-born bailaora and choreographer
is shaping up a gala “based on the work we’ve
done so far”. And to do so, she wants to surround
herself once again with the cante figures that have collaborated
with the company. Miguel
Poveda, Arcángel,
Marina
Heredia and Segundo
Falcón are invited to this special gala, which
is to be held in the setting of the 2008 Granada International
Music and Dance Festival on June 27th.
At the matchless stage of the Generalife
Gardens, they will all join the company’s current
group of artists, consisting of eight dancers; cantaores
Enrique Soto, Pepe de Pura, José Valencia and Jeromo
Segura; and guitarists Paco
Jarana - the ballet’s musical director -, Manuel
de Luz and Salvador Gutiérrez. And that night they
will also have the participation of contemporary dancer
Patrick de Bana.
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Eva Yerbabuena on 'Santo
y seña' (Foto Daniel Muñoz) |
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Together, they will celebrate the anniversary
of this flamenco ballet, one of the most solid ones on
today’s scene. Since it was founded in 1998, the
company has taken shows all over the world such as ‘Eva’,
‘5mujeres5’, ‘La voz del silencio’,
‘A cuatro voces’, ‘El huso de la memoria’
and ‘Santo y seña’. Work which has
been marked by awards such as the 2001 National Dance
Prize, several Max Performing Arts Awards and the invitation
to co-preside over the Festival Montreal en Lumière,
besides collaborations with contemporary dance maestra
Pina Bausch at the Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Flamenco at the 2008 Granada
Music Festival
Besides Eva Yerbabuena’s gala,
the fifty-seventh edition of the outstanding festival
in Granada will have other flamenco contributions. Scheduled
for June 26th at the Patio de los Aljibes is the show
by Marina Heredia in a face-off with Moroccan singer Amina
Alaoui. They will be backed by musicians from both cultures
such as percussionist Idriss Agnel, flamenco guitarists
José
Quevedo ‘El Bola’ and Luis Mariano, and
violinist Kheir-Eddine M’Kachich, among others.
The jondo genre will return on Saturday, July 5th, but
this time at the Teatro Isabel la Católica. Dospormedio
& Cía., a ballet directed by Rafael Estévez
and Nani Paños, will perform the show ‘Flamenco
XXI’, which had already been presented at festivals
like Málaga en Flamenco 2007 and Festival
de Jerez 2008. Moreover, the itinerant program Fex
08 which will travel around the province of Granada includes
recitals by cantaor Juan Pinilla and by bailaora Patricia
Guerrero.
