Present Company Antonio Ruz

In an era of unstoppable anxiety about the future in which time seems to escape from our hands, this work addresses the concept of the present through the senses and explores the relationship of movement and matter with stimuli as ways of expression. But this sensorial and philosophical idea of the "instant" as a gift is also marked by doubt, which reveals here its inspiring potential as a strategy of mobilization and resistance, creating a bubble of possibility; a space and time for mobilization that overrides automatism and complicates the cause-effect relationship. This exercise in which dance, objects and music interact with each other, serves as the basis for creating a mutant piece in which five performers build their own stage space while choreographies and images of a poetry that travels between chaos and beauty, between the ephemeral and the eternal follow one another.

With more than 8 years of experience in the field of choreographic creation, collaboration with artists from different disciplines and the use of live music as a hallmark of identity, the Antonio Ruz Company faces this new work.

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Artistic and technical data

Idea, direction and choreography: Antonio Ruz

Interpretation and choreographic collaboration: Victoria Pérez Miranda, Melania Olcina, Maureen López, Indalecio Seura and Alejandro Moya.

Original Music: Bruno Dozza

Set design: Paco Azorín and Antonio Ruz

Lighting design: Olga García (A.a.i.)

Costume design: Kimôh (Anne-Cécile Espinach)

Sound design: Arne Bock

Sound technician: Enrique Chueca

Cello (recording): Aldo Mata

Percussion (recording): Rodrigo Martinez

Production: Paola Villegas and Gabriel Blanco [ Spectare ].

Photography work in progress: Laura Ortega

Video work in progress: Ainara Nieves

Promotional video: María Salgado

Communication: Josi Cortés Comunicación

Distribution: Valeria Cosi

With the collaboration of the Teatros del Canal

With the support of Ayuntamiento de Madrid

Created in 2009 by its director and choreographer Antonio Ruz, its objective is research, research in the field of movement and collaboration with artists from other disciplines such as visual arts, ancient and contemporary music. The team actively participates in every aspect of the creative process giving the work a 360º approach: from light to scenography or choreography. From an abstract theatricality, common questions and concerns about the body, its perception and ambiguity are some of the concepts addressed in their work. The group is formed by dancers-choreographers with an important professional experience and a high technical and interpretative level, bringing quality and originality to the final result of the proposals.

The Company has presented its works in Spain, Europe, Africa and South America. Among its productions are No Drama ( 2010), Ignoto (2011), premiere at the Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos-New York, where it received the award for Best RCH Interpretation and presented at the XIII Festival Internacional Cádiz en Danza; Ojo (2012), premiere in 2012 at the Festival de Otoño de Madrid and PAD Award for Best Choreography; Libera Me! (2012); Vaivén ( 2014); À L'Espagnole, fantasía escénica (2015), Award for Best Innovative Performance, granted by the Asociación de Grupos Españoles de Música Antigua (GEMA) and PAD Award for Best Choreography, granted by the Asociación de Profesionales

and Companies for the Development of Dance in Andalusia; Recreo.02 (2015); Beautiful Beach.

(2015), and recently Double Bach (2016).

Choreographer and independent dancer, Antonio Ruz is currently, and has been for years, one of the most outstanding creators of dance in our country. His discourse, developed at the head of his own company or with interesting collaborations for reputable national and international groups, is based on an accentuated interest in the most open character of dance. An openness that is the result of both an extensive training and the development of his creative homilies, framed in contemporary dance, but also in Spanish dance and flamenco and in the encounter of both.

Antonio Ruz was born in Cordoba in 1976 and trained in flamenco, Spanish dance and classical ballet in his hometown. He began his professional career at the Victor Ullate Ballet and later at the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon. In 2006 she returned to Spain to join the National Dance Company, under the direction of Nacho Duato. During his stay in foreign companies, Antonio Ruz started in the field of creation. Collaborations with other artists and other disciplines are a constant in the discourse of this choreographer. In this line, since 2007 and until today, he has been developing an interesting creative relationship with the company Sasha Waltz & Guests, based in Berlin, participating as a dancer, choreographer and assistant choreographer. Also since 2007, he starts an interesting collaboration as choreographer and guest dancer with the Spanish dance company Estévez-Paños & Company. "My challenge in every project is to enhance the human side of the performers, to undress their personality. Technique and virtuosity without an underlying discourse do not interest me," explains the creator.

It was in 2009, as a result of a personal and artistic need, when Antonio Ruz created his own dance company in Madrid.

Among the mentions and awards that outline his career are the recent National Dance Award 2018 in the Creation Category and the "Ojo Crítico" Dance Award 2013 RTVE.