Christmas Dance Gala.
Nexus Company

CHRISTMAS DANCE GALA

Nexus Company

29 Dec, 7.30 pm

90 minutes

26€, 29€, 30€

Classical, neoclassical, contemporary and Spanish dance make up the program of this Gala, which features top-level dancers.
 

Aitor Arrieta, principal dancer of the English National Ballet, Juanjo Carazo, dancer of the Compañía Nacional de Danza, and Daniel Vicandi, former professional dancer, present this Christmas dance gala that brings together some of the most outstanding dancers of the national scene.

The program includes an important presence of classical and neoclassical ballet by Giada Rossi, current soloist of the National Dance Company, who on this occasion will be partnered by Cristo Vivancos, former principal dancer of the Scottish Ballet and with an extensive career with the company "Los Vivancos"; the internationally recognized Sergio Bernal, former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Spain; as well as the dancers Cristina Casa and Ion Agirretxe, currently principal dancer and soloist dancer respectively of the National Dance Company.

The gala also includes contemporary dance performed by Aleix Mañé, creator of some of the choreographies that will dance with Aída Badía, both currently independent dancers and former soloists of the National Dance Company.

Spanish dance is also present through iconic pieces such as the one to be performed by Sergio Bernal and other newly created pieces choreographed and performed by Tania Martín and Carlos Romero, former dancers of the Spanish National Ballet and current dancers of the Antonio Najarro Company.
 

ARTISTIC FILE

Artistic direction: Aitor Arrieta, Juanjo Carazo y Daniel Vicandi
Guest artists: Ion Agirretxe, Aída Badía, Sergio Bernal, Cristina Casa, Aleix Mañé, Tania Martín, Carlos Romero, Giada Rossi and Cristo Vivancos.

PROGRAM

II (5 min)
Step by two
Choreography: Aleix Mañé
Music: Juan Antonio Simarro
Dancers: Aída Badía, Aleix Mañé
The dependence between two individuals, different states, impulses that guide and justify the physical language that develops naturally in the work in each musical note.

Love Fear Loss
Choreography: Ricardo Amarante
Music: Introduction 'La Vie en Rose', Edith Piaf; 'Hymne à l'Amour', Edith Piaf; 'Ne me Quitte pas', Jacques Brel; 'Mon Dieu', Charles Dumont.
Musical Arrangements: Nataliya Chepurenko
Dancers: Cristina Casa, Ion Agirretxe
A ballet inspired by the life and music of Edith Piaf, which was a true reflection of her life. Each two-step takes us to an experience of a couple's relationship: love, fear and loss. Her hymn to love conveys what it can feel like at the beginning of a love relationship. After her marriage, relationship struggles took center stage in most of her songs. With the tragic loss of her husband, Mon Dieu was one of the songs that best reflected the feeling of loss. 

Diana and Actaeon (9 min)
Step by two
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Cesare Pugni
Dancers: Giada Rossi, Cristo Vivancos
Actaeon is hunting in the forest with his companions and his hunting dogs when he discovers the goddess Diana bathing in the river with her nymphs. Before he can do or say anything, Diana turns him into a deer so that he cannot tell what he has seen. As he leaves, his hunting dogs kill him without realizing that he is in fact their master.

Faruq (15 min)
Step by two
Choreography: Tania Martín, Carlos Romero
Dancers: Tania Martín, Carlos Romero
Faruq is said of the one who knows how to distinguish good from evil. The women of the gypsy prisoners, braceros and blacksmiths had to bear the weight of the family and worked to make a living. Because of their ethnic and gender condition they could not work for a salary and many sold flowers or bouquets of aromatic plants. Associated with mystery due to the ignorance and marginalization of their ethnicity, they were linked to esoteric wisdom and made a living as pythonesses, chiromancers, healers or midwives.

REST

Romeo and Juliet
Two-step
Choreography: Leonid Lavrosky
Music: Sergey Prokofiev
Dancers: Cristina Casa, Cristo Vivancos
The choreography captures the emotions of a young couple in love despite the barriers, the hapless Shakespearean lovers succumb to passion and tragedy. Considered one of the best ballets of the 20th century and the first based on a Shakespearean play, this version of Romeo and Juliet 's pas de deux is an excerpt from the complete play showing the balcony scene between the lovers.

Carmen (5 min)
Step by two
Choreography: Alberto Alonso
Music: Georges Bizet
Dancers: Giada Rossi, Sergio Bernal
The Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso created for the Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, a ballet with great quality of movement and with the music that her husband, Rodion Schedrin, orchestrated on a suite from Bizet's opera. Thus was born the Carmen suite that had its premiere at the Bolshoi Theater on April 20, 1967.

Alonso's scenario centers on Carmen, Don José and the bullfighter Escamillo. Carmen is a passionate and free-spirited woman in contrast to the temperamental and fickle character of Don José. Fate, a dancer and representation of Carmen's alter ego, tells Carmen's fortune with a deck of cards. A fight with tobacco dealers leads to Carmen's arrest by Captain Zúñiga. In jail, she seduces Don José and convinces him to free her. 

NauJ (10 min)
Paso a dos
Choreography: Aleix Mañé
Dancers: Aída Badía and Aleix Mañé
Broken space, traces of snow in the air, accepting the cracks, loving them, to love each other and lie down inside them. Ephemeral marks of your movements. Something beautiful. By you, through you. The gesture of your arms surrendering, of your exhausted breaths. Crackling rocks. Perhaps none of this whole journey, this piece, this moment, is so poetic, so mysterious, but let us live in the beautiful illusions, in the beautiful wounds, in the precious cracks.

Spring Waters (2 min)
Two-step
Choreography: Messerer
Dancers: Cristina Casa, Ion Agirretxe
The piece speaks of the enthusiasm generated by the arrival of spring. "Although the snow still whitens the fields, spring is already here in the murmur of the waters that run and awaken the sleeping shores, that run and dance and sing. They sing aloud and softly: Spring is coming! Spring is coming! We are the young heralds of spring, she bade us anticipate her coming. Spring is coming! Spring is coming! And the bright, rosy dance of the May days is joyfully taking root beside her!". That same enthusiasm and splendor referred to in the poem is present in this piece.

The three-cornered hat
Solo
Choreography: Antonio Ruiz Soler
Music: Manuel de Falla
Dancer: Sergio Bernal
This piece of the Spanish dance repertoire has become a universal icon that is performed on stages all over the world. The work allows the dancer to go from the precious detail to the bravura, showing all his versatility and expressive capacity.

PERFORMERS

	Ion Agirretxe His professional career began in France with the company Europa Danse (2006-2007). In 2008 he joined La Mov in Zaragoza, with Víctor Jiménez as director, and Corella Ballet Castilla y León under the direction of Ángel Corella. In 2012 he joined the Royal Ballet Flanders under the direction of Assis Carreiro. In 2016 he joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza directed by José Carlos Martínez and in 2018 he was promoted to soloist.
	Aida Badía In 2012 she joined the corps de ballet of the National Dance Company directed by José Carlos Martínez and in 2016 she was promoted to solo dancer. She currently works as a freelance dancer in various projects.
	Sergio Bernal Considered one of the most influential dancers of his generation in the national and international scene, Sergio Bernal stands out for his passion, technique and great talent. He currently dances in his own company and his career includes being principal dancer of the Spanish National Ballet. He has demonstrated that his technique includes Spanish dance but also classical ballet and flamenco. He participates in dance galas in the main stages of the world.
	Cristina Casa She danced at the English National Ballet in 2007. In 2008 she joined the Corella Ballet Castilla y León under the direction of Ángel Corella and was promoted to soloist in 2009. In 2012 she joins the Royal Ballet Flanders as a soloist and in 2015 she is invited by José Carlos Martínez to the Compañía Nacional de Danza where she is promoted to principal dancer in 2017.
	Aleix Mañé In 2016 he works with the Nafas Dance Company and joins the National Dance Company 2, later ascending to the National Dance Company where he is promoted to solo dancer. He currently works as a freelance choreographer and dancer.
	Tania Martín She began her professional career in 2011 with the José Porcel Flamenco Company on an extensive tour of the USA and Canada. In 2012 she joined the cast of the Ballet Nacional de España and in 2019 she is part of the Antonio Márquez Company as a guest artist. She is currently prima ballerina of the Antonio Najarro Company and develops her choreographic facet with Nexus Company.
	Carlos Romero In 2014-2015 he dances in the Antonio Canales Company, works with José Luis Moreno, with the company Ibérica de Danza and as a soloist in the Ballet Teatro Rafael Aguilar and in the Aída Gómez Company. In 2014 he joined the cast of the Ballet Nacional de España and was promoted to soloist dancer in 2016. In 2019 he is part of the Antonio Márquez Company as a guest artist and is currently principal dancer of the Antonio Najarro Company and choreographer at Nexus Company.
	Giada Rossi She joins the National Opera of Bordeaux in 2009-2013 and wins several prizes, becoming a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne. In 2015 she joins the National Dance Company directed by José Carlos Martínez, in the 2019/2020 season she dances as a soloist under the direction of Joaquín de Luz and in 2022 she is promoted to principal dancer.
	Cristo Vivancos He has performed as principal dancer in the Torres del Alba Company and has been awarded the Outstanding Dancer Award 2006. He has been principal dancer of the Scottish Ballet between 2003 and 2006 and since 2007 he is part of the company Los Vivancos.