Fernando López
+ More info- Live performance
- Cinéma Saint Sauveur, Lille
- 1h
- Free entrance on reservation
No more versions : love the magician
Within the framework of the Printemps à la Gare Saint Sauveur – lille3000
How to reinvent gestures repeated for more than a century? In No more versions: Love The Magician, Fernando López deconstructs the notion of «repertoire» in dance, offering a non-version of a great Spanish ballet classic.
«Love, the Magician» can be considered the first Spanish Ballet of the twentieth century. Composed in 1915 by Manuel de Falla, it is then transformed into a choral ballet, danced by two of the best Spanish dancers of the century: Antonia Mercé La Argentina and Vicente Escudero. Since then, «Love, the Magician» has become a dance classic in Spain, recreated and adapted by the greatest choreographers. In 2021, Fernando López decided to create a «non-version» of this flagship piece. How can a body create a new dance gesture, without repeating all the movements already created by others? Author of the book Flamenco Queer, the choreographer, dancer and philosopher approaches in a contemporary and personal way a monument of Spanish dance.
- Accessibility information:
Presence of spoken and written texts in French
Subtitled show
Biography(s)
(Madrid, 1990). Doctor of Aesthetics from the University of Paris 8-Saint Denis, he combines artistic activity, academic research and teaching.
Since 2009, he has run his own company in the field of contemporary flamenco, having created more than a dozen shows where dance, words and music are interwoven, surpassing all labels.
In his creations, he has had the participation of artists such as Álvaro Romero, Jero Férec, Belén Maya, La Chachi, Carmen Muñoz and Isabel Do Diego, among others.
He has also been solicited as artistic director and advisor by choreographers such as Olga Pericet, Belén Maya, Juan Carlos Lérida, José Manuel Álvarez, Poliana Lima, Carmen Muñoz, etc.
Among other honours, he received the prize for best dancer from the El Álamo competition (2010) and the DanceWeb scholarship (2013) from the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna.
Since 2020, he has been a member of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain and a visiting professor at various Spanish and French universities, where he offers theoretical and practical workshops focused on research-creation and gender issues in dance.
Credits
Direction, choreography and interpretation Fernando López
Music Manuel de Falla
Dramaturgy María de la O Lejárrega, Gregorio Martínez Sierra
