decorative band Compañia Nacional de Danza (Spain). Artistic Director: Nacho Duato. link to Nacho Duato's biography link to the ministry of culturesend email
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Ofrenda de Sombras

 

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Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: collage music XVI and XVII centuries and Alberto Iglesias (electronic music)
Sets: Jaffar Chalabi
Costumes: Nacho Duato (in collaboration with Ismael Aznar)
Light Design: Brad Fields

World premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza at Teatro Real de Madrid, May  31st , 2000.

Last year  saw  the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest painters of all time: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. Together with Rubens and Rembrandt, he was the  most representative painter of the baroque period. His trajectory is unlimited by time and he is still modern today. With Ofrenda de Sombras, Duato wishes to pay homage to the great master, taking inspiration from one of his greatest works: Las Meninas. The choreographer creates  a very personal world of private dreams and fantasy, which in its development approaches and departs from the story told in Velazquez’s painting, never failing to offer it as a reference to the spectator so that the source of inspiration is constantly present.

Music:
Alberto Iglesias   1.Introduction
Jordi Savall   Las Sombras
William Daman   Fantasia: Di sei soprani
Innocenzio Alberti   Pavan of Albarti
Alberto Iglesias   II. Tema electrónico
Henry Purcell   Fantasia upon one note
Marin Marais   Charivari
Alberto Iglesias   III. Tema electrónico
Luigi Rossi   Les Pleurs d’Orphée
Jean-Baptiste Lully   Sarabande: Air des Espagnols
Alberto Iglesias   IV. Tema electrónico
Juan Cabanilles   Tiento de Falsas
Jordi Savall   Las Sombras
Jean-Baptiste Lully   Danse de Neptune