We resume Mentoring Project
CND Educa
This week we have resumed our Mentoring Project. As an educational initiative of our CND Educa, promoted by our director Joaquín De Luz, this project consists of mentoring conection done by our CND dancers towards a last year professional education student.
During this week, our corps de ballet dancer Laura Pérez Hierro has acted as a mentor, hosting Marina Freixa, a student of the Oriol Martorell Conservatory of Barcelona. Living in our headquarters, Laura has shared her day to day with the mentor, transferring her experience and values, in a relationship of mutual benefit.
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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.
The CND project is already underway at the University
The Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) has been the first institution to join this CND project, which consists of the development of a series of choreographic creation workshops in which, for a week, different groups of dancers from the CND share their own creations with the university community through group dynamics and movement explorations. Two weeks later, dancers and university students begin to select materials to create their own dance piece that will be offered at the UC3M Auditorium. After the sample of the scenic work, the choreographic workshop concludes with a discussion in which the students participating in the project, the dancers and the university public talk and ask questions about the creative process, their concerns, what they experienced and felt and their way of understand dance after the experience.
The first workshop began on Thursday, October 31 with the dancers Isaac Montllor and Nora Peinador accompanied by Ana Catalina Román and the second with the couple of CND dancers Cristina Casa and Ion Agirretxe started on Thursday, November 7.
The CND at the University was born within the social project Somos CND, which has among its objectives to bring dance closer to different groups in society through training activities and artistic creation and research projects of an interdisciplinary nature.
Any interested university can propose its collaborative project to the CND contacting with aida.perez@inaem.cultura.gob.es
Video of the first workshop at the UC3M