The “risky and brave quest” of the Catalan dancer Ana Morales and the journey “between tradition and the avant-garde” of the Andalusian choreographer Andrés Marín stand out.
Flamenco double at the National Dance Awards, which went to dancer Ana Morales (Barcelona, 82), in the Interpretation category, and to choreographer and dancer Andrés Marín (Sevilla, 1969), in the Creation category. The awards are presented annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, through the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), and are endowed with 30,000 euros each.
Ana Morales is awarded “for her ability to create different universes in her interpretations”, in “a tireless personal, risky and brave quest”. The jury emphasized “the organic nature of his movement, a characteristic that stands out in works such as ‘Sin permission’, ‘Cuerda floja’ and ‘Pculiar'”.
Andrés Marín is known for “his ability to move between tradition and the avant-garde”, with a “very personal” choreographic language, in dialogue with other disciplines that he naturally incorporates. The jury underlined “its great international projection” and the “experiment and risk” of creations such as ‘Don Quixote’, The Perfect Vigil’, ‘Ecstasy Ravel’ and the recent ‘Yarin’».
Ana Morales is one of the highest representatives of the so-called “revolutionaries” of flamenco. Educated at the Conservatory of Barcelona, she moved to Seville at the age of 16 with a scholarship from the Andalusian Dance Company of José Antonio Ruiz. She was a student of flamenco masters such as Rafael Campallo, Alejandro Granados, Juana Amaya, Eva Yerbabuena, Isabel Bayón and Andrés Marín.
With the Andalusian Dance Company he toured national and international theaters and festivals. As a soloist she was associated with the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet, with the companies Andrés Marín and Javier Latorre and with tablaos in Seville -Los Gallos, La Casa de la Memoria- and Barcelona -El Cordobés- and Madrid -Casa Patas-.
As a maker she drew ‘Without permission’, ‘Songs for silence’, ‘On the loose rope’, ‘A slow look’, ‘The lost steps’ or ‘Bagatelas’. He participated in the film ‘Iberia, by Carlos Saura and collaborated with artists such as Belén Maya, Esperanza Fernández and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.
Andrés Marín is one of the most unique dancers and choreographers in flamenco today and an innovator of the genre. Son of bailaor Andrés Marín and cantaora Isabel Vargas, he sucked el duende. He started dancing at his father’s school and became fond of cante, of which he is a great connoisseur. Self-taught, independence marks his career.
Soloist and choreographer since 1992, in 2002 he founded his own company, with which he signed more than a dozen shows such as ‘Beyond time’, ‘Asimetries’, ‘The dawn of the last day’, ‘Vanguardia Jonda’, ‘The heaven of your mouth’, ‘Passion depending on how you look at it’, ‘Op.24’, ‘Tuétano’, ‘Ad Libitum’, ‘Yatra’, ‘Carta Blanca’, ‘D. Quixote’, ‘The Perfect Wake’ and ‘Ravel Ecstasy’.
He collaborated with visual artists Pilar Albarracín and José Miguel Pereñíguez; with the experimental composer Llorenç Barber; with the director of the gypsy musical and the equestrian theater in Paris, Bartabas; with the hip-hop dancer and director of the National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle, Kader Attou, or with the Trio Arbós and the Ensemble Divana. He combines his artistic activity with the direction of Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, a production agency and dance studio based in Seville.
Source: La Verdad
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