Quiebros by Jose Ullate face to Guernica.

Through a series of choreographies, visitors are given the opportunity to view a total of 10 performances at different times and with different dance styles – contemporary, ballet, classical Spanish dance, new flamenco and urban dance – coexisting alongside plastic arts.

The Dance Attacks will also be filmed and disseminated through social networks, creating an audiovisual ensemble to promote dance in Spain.

Quiebro.

Room 206, Guernica, Floor 2, Sabatini Building

Choreography by Víctor Ullate
Music by Enrique Morente

One of the venues chosen for the Dance Attacks is the very same that houses Picasso’s Guernica – the first time the painting enters into dialogue with this artistic discipline.

Quiebro is a special choreography produced by Víctor Ullate, with music from Enrique Morente and the voice of Estrella Morente, to be performed in front of the artwork by the dancer Josué Ullate.

This solo with a marked shade of Spain – in the words of the choreographer – was conceived as a lament, a groan, an inner and heart-rending yell that ventures to be heard, from infancy, from life experience. The twisted body of a dancer that, to the rhythm of the intense and heartfelt folk singing of first Enrique Morente, then his daughter Estrella, struggles to break out of a muted mouth. “Quiebro” is this groan, found in Guernica, this heart-rending yell from a masked society, from the brutality of war, from every war, with movements that are sharp, resonant, painful… the dancer, enclosed in an urn he wishes to open, will be the bull, the injured horse, the winged bird discerned in the background, he will be, finally, the bitter cry of Guernica.

Tickets by registration, until one day before the event at: artesenvivo2@museoreinasofia.es (a maximum of two tickets per person). Tickets sold out.

Closing Gala Dance Attacks

Live Arts Modern dance
Auditorium 400, Nouvel Building

Free entry until full capacity is reached (prior collection in the Museo’s ticket offices, with a maximum of 5 tickets per person, from the days leading up to the activity until thirty minutes beforehand).

There will be a message by UNESCO about International Dance Day and the different companies featuring in the Dance Attack programme that have performed throughout the day in the Museo.

Melanie Olcina, performing choreography by Antonio Ruz,

in front of Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke, Nouvel Patio, Dance Attacks.

Photography © Jesús Vallinas.

Programme.

Two dancing “guides” will accompany those visitors attending that wish to follow the whole series of choreographed performances.

First session.  

12:00 p.m.: Nouvel Patio.
Los hombres también mueven paredes.
Provisional Danza Company. Aerial choreography by Carmen Werner.

12:30 p.m.: Edificio Sabatini Building, Floor 1, Garden.
Ambos.
Choreography by José Maldonado and Adrián Santana.

1:00 p.m.: Sabatini Building, Floor 1, Room 102.
Cádiz
Larreal: Ballet from the Professional Conservatory of Danza Mariemma
Choreography by Antonio Pérez.

1:30 p.m.: Sabatini Building, Floor 2, Room 206.04
Rondeña
Choreography by Manuel Liñán.

2:00 p.m.: Nouvel Building, Floor 1, Entrance Hall 104
Acércate más… Lejos!
Imposible Danza. Choreography by Ángel Rodríguez

Second session.

5:00 p.m.: Sabatini Building, Floor 2, Room 206.04.
Aimless.
Choreography by Tamako Akiyama and Dimo Kirilov.

5:30 p.m.: Sabatini Building, Floor 1, Room 102
Free Style Duet.
Dani Panullo.

6:00 p.m.: Nouvel Patio.
Los hombres también mueven paredes.
Provisional Danza Company. Aerial choreography by Carmen Werner.