+ JOTA.
Miguel Ángel Berna

Saturday 22 Oct, 19:30 h
MUN Theater
22 y 24€

Tradition, folklore and modernity merge in "+ Jota", an intimate encounter of Miguel Ángel Berna with the dance and music of his homeland. The Aragonese dancer reinterprets the jota from a more contemporary language without losing the essence of these dances.

Berna, protagonist on stage, interacts with four live musicians giving himself to the public in the most intimate and personal way. A show in which to evoke memories of the past and look to the future through adaptations and new musical creations based on the jotas of classic authors such as Liszt, Tárraga or Bretón and the music, songs and dances of Aragón.

Alberto Artigas, Guille Mata, Miguel Ángel Fraile and Josué Barrés sign these new creations. Mata reinterprets some variations of jota using electronic instruments. As for the classical jotas, a musical and choreographic reinterpretation of Liszt's jota has been chosen, where the choreography is devised by the dancer and choreographer Cesc Gelabert and the musical reinterpretations of the variations of the theme are in charge of Artigas.

Choreographies of tribute to the town of Belchite, to the harvest, old voices of Bujaraloz, a tour of the Monegros or a nod to the awakenings of the feast of Santa Quiteria de la Almolda complete this journey through the jota updated by Miguel Angel Berna.

ARTISTIC FILE
Direction: Miguel Ángel Berna
Choreography: Miguel Ángel Berna with the collaboration of Cesc Gelabert
Musical direction: Alberto Artigas
Dancer: Miguel Ángel Berna
Singer: Lorena Palacios
Musicians: Alberto Artigas, Josué Barrés, Miguel Ángel Fraile
Lighting design: Josema Hernández de la Torre
Sound Design: Eric López
Production: Arkhe Danza SL

MIGUEL ANGEL BERNA
With more than forty years of experience, Miguel Angel Berna (Zaragoza, 1968) is an outstanding creator in our country, between Spanish dance and a revised and current Aragonese folklore. A connoisseur of the jota since he was 8 years old and of other dance disciplines such as classical ballet, contemporary dance and flamenco, Berna proposes a language as eclectic as his knowledge.

In 1990 he founded his first company, Danza Viva, and with it his first creation,Entre Dos, with which he won the Outstanding Dancer Award at the Certamen de Danza Española y Flamenco in 1993. Seven years later, in 2000, he won the First Prize for Choreography at the same contest with La Templanza. His creations include Rasmia ( 1999), Solombra (2001),Tierra de dragón ( 2003), Mudéjar ( 2003), Savia Nueva (2006), a show performed with singer Carmen París, Amares (2007), Goya (2008),Flamenco se escribe con Jota ( 2009), La Pasión ( 2010), Berna se escribe con Jota (2010), Bailando mi tierra (2011), Oturia. Intima Peregrinatio (2021), among others.

His shows have been seen all over Spain and abroad. He has taught master classes at the City Center of New York, the National Ballet of Spain, the Institute of Theatre of Barcelona, among other institutions. He has collaborated with artists such as Sara Baras, Olga Pericet, Rafael Amargo and Antonio Canales, among others. He has also collaborated in different cinematographic projects such as the last one by Carlos Saura about the Jota.

Since July 2005, his dance company has been a resident of the City Council of Zaragoza, an institution that in 2017 awarded him the distinction of "Favorite Son".

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