SIGNS. ISABEL VILLANUEVA AND ANTONIO RUZ

Violist Isabel Villanueva and choreographer Antonio Ruz work together in this meeting of disciplines that proposes a dialogue between sound, movement, voice, objects and light.

Approximate duration: 50 minutes.

Price: 16 and 12€ . Special discounts with Youth Card and PIC card (Pamplona Iruña Card).
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At the end of the performance, Isabel Villanueva and Antonio Ruz will meet with the audience.

After its premiere on February 20 and 21 at the Teatro Central in Seville,Signos arrives at the Museo Universidad de Navarra . A show in which the violist Isabel Villanueva and choreographer Antonio Ruz work together in a meeting of disciplines that proposes a dialogue between sound, movement, voice, objects and light without prejudice.

With a very careful staging and lighting, the beautiful and complex sound architecture of the pieces and musical miniatures by composers György Kurtág and Johann Sebastian Bach, masterfully interpreted by Villanueva, will merge with the corporal score proposed by Ruz and a choreographic dramaturgy that fuses the dreamlike, the poetic and the disturbing.

Musical program

György Kurtág, Signs, Games and Messages, for solo viola Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 2 BWV for solo violin (viola version)

Artistic data

Musical direction and live performance (viola): Isabel Villanueva

Stage direction, choreography and interpretation: Antonio Ruz

Lighting Design: Olga García

Costumes and scenery: Compañía Antonio Ruz

Production: Paola Villegas - Spectare

Distribution: Valeria Cosi - Tina Agency

Photography and promotional video: La Famosa Productora

External eye: Julián Lázaro

ISABEL VILLANUEVA

The prestigious magazine The Strad describes her as "an artist who takes risks" and Pizzicato Magazine describes her as "a sensitive artist who knows how to immerse herself in the depths of music". Villanueva defends the music with passion, making her instrument known with her own voice, together with her charismatic interpretations, of great expressiveness and sonorous beauty, which immediately connect with the audience.

Isabel Villanueva has developed an intense career that has led her to play with important orchestras in Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, China and Europe. Intense, vital and imaginative, she carries out an overflowing activity as a concert performer, pedagogue, researcher, premiering contemporary works, carrying out chamber music projects with prestigious colleagues and launching her own festival Pamplona Reclassics.

The important awards received endorse her brilliant career and her overflowing energy and talent, "El Ojo Crítico" de la Música Clásica de RNE 2015 Award and Premio Cultura de Música Clásica 2019 awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid, among others, Villanueva is one of the most valued and complete violists of today.

As a soloist she has performed with prestigious orchestras, performed in important halls and festivals, her first album 'Bohèmes' receives very good reviews and is consolidated by receiving the award for "Best Classical Album of the Year" at the MIN Independent Music Awards 2018, being the first time that a Viola album receives this award.

Isabel Villanueva plays with an Enrico Catenar viola (Turin 1670).

ANTONIO RUZ

Choreographer and independent dancer, Antonio Ruz is one of the most outstanding creators of dance in our country. His discourse 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 homily, framed in contemporary dance, but also in Spanish dance and flamenco and in the encounter of both.

Antonio Ruz (Córdoba, 1976) trained in flamenco, Spanish dance and classical ballet. 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 he returned to Spain to join the National Dance Company, under the direction of Nacho Duato.

Collaborations with other artists and other disciplines are a constant in the discourse of this choreographer. In this line, since 2007 and up to the present, he has been developing an interesting creative relationship with the company Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin) and with the Spanish dance company Estévez-Paños & Company.

It was in 2009, as a result of a personal and artistic need, when he created his own company.

In 2019 he is commissioned by the museo Universidad de Navarra to direct the creative project Transmutación (2019).

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 2013 RTVE Award. Ruz is a member of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain.