The language of lines
Leonor Leal

  Friday 18 Oct
  19:30 h
  5€*
MUN Theatre
*If you have a ticket for any Museo en Danza show, you can get an invitation to this performative lecture on Spanish dance.

A conference that talks about the body and what we feel when we dance.

This proposal arises from a question that a spectator asked the dancer Leonor Leal after seeing her in a performance: "What do you see when you dance?" "I realized that I had no words to define it," says the young dancer. "I don't move in the world of words but I felt I had a lot to say. We never tell what happens to us when we dance and this idea encouraged me to create this proposal. I researched and found almost nothing, except for a conference given by Antonia Mercé La Argentina in Paris, in which she spoke about the body and what we feel when we dance".

El lenguaje de las líneas is a danced lecture on notation, learning and choreographic creation based on Antonia Mercé, La Argentina. The lack of materials written by flamenco dancers led Leonor Leal to discover the homonymous lecture given by La Argentina at the Salon Santé-Beauté in Paris shortly before her death. 

From there, his creation responds to the question of whether dance and speech can be translated simultaneously to draw images, doubts and desires in successive choreographic rewritings in air and on paper.


ARTISTIC PROFILE
Lecture, research and dance: Leonor Leal
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Cecilia Molano
Accompanying research: Victoria Pérez - Royo
Contributions in the process: Pedro G. Romero and Cisco Casado.
Acknowledgements: Fernando Lima, Alysson Maia
 

LEONOR LEAL
Singular dancer with a solid formation in Classical and Spanish Dance. She found in Flamenco the right vehicle to develop her talent. Her versatility allows her to adapt to very diverse contexts and face challenges that open doors for her to continue growing as an artist.

She began her career as a member of important flamenco companies such as the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía directed by Cristina Hoyos. In 2008, he presented his first show "Leoleolé" which was followed by others of different formats, "eLe eLe" (2011), "Mosaicos" (2012), "La mujer habitada" (2012), "El Verbo en tu boca" (2014), "Naranja amarga" (2013), "Frágil" (2015), "J.R.T. pintor y flamenco" (2016), "Nocturno" (2018), or "En talleres" (2019). The most recent and most ambitious at the scenographic and musical level is "LOXA, estampas y bailes a partir de los experimentos radiofónicos de Juan de Loxa", presented at the XXI Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2020.

Leal combines all these productions with a wide variety of projects or initiatives, whether for theater, didactic pieces, video-dances or compositions with diverse musical frameworks, from baroque to contemporary music.

Her career as a soloist is supported by several awards such as 'Outstanding Dancer' of the Choreographic Contest of Spanish Dance and Flamenco of Madrid 2008, and the award for 'Best New Artist' of the Festival de Jerez 2011 or the nominations for Best Female Dance Performer and Best Dance Show of the XXIII Max Awards of the Performing Arts 2020.

He shows his pieces in many of the main European and American flamenco shows such as the Biennials of Seville and Holland or the festivals of Jerez, Dusseldorf, Esch-Luxembourg, Nîmes, Mont de Marsan, Toulouse, London and New York.

She studied Music Teaching at university and since her beginnings she has combined her artistic career with teaching, being continuously required as a teacher in schools and international flamenco festivals around the world.