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The National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (Inaem), in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum, has organized a very special commemoration to celebrate this Friday, International Dance Day, through a streaming for peace , which will unite the choreographies of the National Ballet of Spain (BNE) and of the National Dance Company (CND) with the message condemning the atrocities of war symbolized by Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ (1937).
Room 206 of the Sabatini building had never been opened before to host a choreographic show of these characteristics that, for the first time, brings together national dance companies in a joint artistic proposal in front of this universal work.
The program will be broadcast from 10:00 a.m. this Friday and will remain on the social networks of the collaborating institutions.
The program will open with absolute premiere of the piece ‘Sombras’, choreographed especially for this event by the assistant artistic director of the BNE, Miguel Ángel Corbacho, based on the composition ‘Racheo’, by Raúl Domínguez. It will be followed by the choreographies by Ricardo Amarante ‘Fear’ and ‘Loss’, performed by CND dancers on the songs ‘Ne me quitte pas’, by Jacques Brel, and ‘Mon Dieu’, by Charles Dumont, both with musical arrangements by charge of Nataliya Chepurenko. The program closes with ‘Sangre de toro’, created by the director of the National Ballet, Rubén Olmo, based on Diego Losada’s ‘Bulería’; and the premiere piece, mounted for this commemoration, entitled ‘Guernica’, also with music by this composer.
Coinciding with the 85th anniversary of the attack on the Biscayan town of Guernica -bombed on April 26, 1937-, this initiative claims a message of harmony and solidarity through the universal language of dance. In the words of the Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta«for the first time we unite our two national dance companies in front of a universal symbol of peace, such as ‘Guernica’, so that the talent and dedication of our dancers and the unique expression of dance in its different styles comfort with your message of brotherhood, beauty and hope«.
The director of the BNE, one of the promoters of this initiative, stresses that “we wanted to express through dance the suffering caused by wars and our rejection of events like this happening again.” For his part, Joaquín de Luz, head of the CND, highlights that “dance is a universal language that connects us as human beings. It creates the opposite of war, which is destruction and separation.
The dancers who will perform this program for peace will be Inmaculada Salomón, Miriam Mendoza, Débora Martínez, Aitana Rousseau, Cristian García, Álvaro Gordillo, Matías López, Adrián Maqueda, Álvaro Marbán, Alfredo Mérida, Áxel Galán and Manuel del Río, from the National Ballet from Spain; and Alessandro Riga, Cristina Casa, Anthony Pina, Giada Rossi, Ion Agirretxe and Pauline Perraut, from the National Dance Company.
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