The Professional School of Dance of Castilla y León in Valladolid visits the CND
Last Monday, the 4th EPCD students of the Escuela Profesional de Danza de Castilla y León in Valladolid traveled to Madrid to visit the CND.
The students, together with their teacher Arturo Morán and the accompanying teacher Eva Llorente, attended the National Dance Company’s headquarters to enjoy the class and rehearsals of the teacher Aranxta Argüelles.
In addition, they were able to see the staging of two current pieces of the CND, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Passengers Within, both by our director, Joaquín De Luz.
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Meet our dancers: Marcos Montes
Marcos was born in Madrid, where he graduated at the Mariemma Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza. In 2011, he accepted a scholarship to attend the Boston Ballet School’s summer programme, where he studied under Mikko Nissinen. In 2014, his dancing career continued with the caraBdanza dance company, where he danced a neoclassical and contemporary repertoire. Subsequently, at the request of José Carlos Martínez, he was invited to collaborate with the Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND) in its production of Don Quijote and, while there, he also took part in the ballet Raymonda Divertimento.
CND welcomes José Carlos Blanco as guest maestro
José Carlos Blanco is a guest teacher at the headquarters of the Compañía Nacional de Danza. The dancer and repetitive assistant from Madrid has been reunited these days with what was his company for nine seasons. We talked to him to tell us about his projects and the work he will do in the three weeks he will be at our headquarters as guest teacher.
Meet our dancers: Shlomi Shlomo Miara
Shlomi is a creative dancer born in Israel whose career in dance began unexpectedly. After his education in L&L Goodman Bat-Door, Kamea Dance Company and Israel Ballet he took the risk to travel to Zurich and dance in the Junior Zurich Ballet of Switzerland without knowing the language. In 2018 he joined the CND, where he has danced various pieces such as Pulcinella, Carmen, Giselle, Remansos, In Paradisum and Arriaga where he performs an extraordinary solo.
Meet our dancers: Sara Khatiboun
Sara Khatiboun is a dancer from Madrid, where she began her studies at the Mariemma Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance. In 2011 he joined the School of American Ballet and in 2014 as a guest student at Palucca Hoschule in Dresden. In 2016 he joined the National Dance Company.