In July 2011, on one of those summer evenings that refreshed the Belluga festival, the Antonio Najarro Company, founded in 2002, surprised with that ‘Jazzing Flamenco’ in which a personal, modern and innovative vocabulary combined modern and traditional aspects, creating new sensations awakened . . She would continue these ideas for the next eight years as head of the National Ballet of Spain, alternating her own choreography with shared choreography, without forgetting to return to treasures of the Spanish dance repertoire, intelligently demonstrating her ability to a not too distant past with positive innovations from the present.
Mastering all dance styles, involvement in costumes, music resources created for new works, interest in relating dance, fashion and sports, and managing audiovisual broadcasting is such a broad baggage that after completing his stage at the BNE , bravely resumed his private business, has an audience that knows the quality of its proposals. During her previous visit to the same Auditorium in March 2021 with ‘Alento’, eight dance pieces and two musical themes were examples of her style -arms, movements, expressive gestures and giving flair to skirts and scarves-, now in her new creation, ‘Querencia’ , the inspiration to go back to the past, gives us in eleven paintings an excellent exposition of the Spanish dance styles developed at that time by Mariemma, Escuela Bolera, regional dances, flamenco and stylized dance duly analyzed in her ‘ Treatise on Spanish Dance’.
As an introduction, the curtain goes up, in the dark a soft lighting follows to reveal static figures on stage as samples of costumes of every style. From that moment on, the dances take place for an hour and a quarter in a fixed order that does not cut away the differences of each dance form, but connects it. The background landscape, dominant black, columns, entrance door and very effective exit. The change of backlight is useful to give certain areas the necessary brightness. Another successful element is the Spanish cape that in a farruca gives a refined elegance with its fluidity, just as the bata de cola is not just a dress, it is another body with a life of its own.
The sequence of dances with proper technique warms the audience with increasingly intense applause, a demonstration of the complicity achieved through the cast’s dedicated performance. To all this we must add the success of commissioning the musical composition for symphony orchestra to the pianist Moisés Sánchez, a fundamental key so that the movements of the choreographies correspond to those of the score. As a result, Antonio Najarro conveys his idea of the energy of life-made dance in a sublime ‘Querencia’.
Source: La Verdad
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