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The National Ballet of Spain began the celebration of its 30th anniversary with "The Heart of Jade", a choreography inspired by the novel by Salvador de Madariaga and in which its director, José Antonio, opted for a big production with a delicate story and difficult to tell where "dancing to the cat."
Dance programming Murcia Auditorium welcomes this work tomorrow, Monday October 12 at 21:30 pm in Room Narciso Yepes, with music by Jose Nieto, Ricardo Sánchez Rope scenery, costumes by Yvonne Blake and two guest artists, Carlos Primitivo Rodriguez and Dance, in addition to all the cast of the National Ballet of Spain, including Jose Antonio.
Entries 25 and 20 Euros.
Much pain, intransigence, the power of a culture that enslaves another, much blood and brilliant stories are the ingredients of 'The Heart of Jade ", which is fully effective because things happen in the world before they must be alerted.
The work focuses on the sad love story told by De Madariaga between a Spanish conquistador and an Aztec princess to whom had predicted an unfortunate future.
Told in a poetic way, José Antonio has ventured into a world where the deepest feelings shared site with horror.
To reflect this ambivalent world, the choreographer has done a choral work, which begins with the company reaching the scene, with undefined characters.
They begin to find their identity while dancing, for which use of a Spanish vocabulary with the municipality but doing a ballet dance ethnic or sixteenth century.
The show focuses on the conquest of the Americas and in the two continents, two cultures separated by the ocean.
Spain craves power cross and imperialist ambitions and take pride in their "civilization."
Mexico shudders to think that the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl are enforced and the Feathered Serpent Gods converted back blond fears come true extermination of their culture and the end of his era esplendor.La story begins with the fall of Granada, Alonso's birth and the expulsion of the Jews.
At the same time and in the distant realms of Montezuma, was born a princess, Xuchitl, which since its inception the omens predict that life away from their roots to foreign lands.
Will be protected and loved Ixcauatzin silence, the child's birth at the ceremony becomes a priest and protector by King and father of the princess.
From the initial script that was the stage director Jose Carlos Plaza, he and composer Jose Nieto formed the backbone to tell the story, sorting the main characters, which does not prevent some of the artists of the company are to be interpreted several roles, and José Antonio has reserved, again, a role "rare and controversial" to unleash the performance.
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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