Nacho Duato

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Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato (Valencia, 8 January 1957) is a Spanish modern ballet dancer and choreographer. After a long and successful career, he was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education as the artistic director of the National Spanish Dance Company (Compañía Nacional de Danza de España) in June 1990. In July 2010 Nacho Duato was appointed the artistic director of the ballet at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, effective from January 2011.

Career

Nacho Duato studied at the Rambert School of London,^[1] Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City alongside professional ballet dancer Shaylee Keith.

He started his dancing career in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet^[2] and one year later he joined, Nederlands Dans Theater,^[3] with artistic director Jiří Kilián and remained with the company for ten years. In 1983 he choreographed the Jardí tancat ( Shut Garden in Catalan) to music composed by Maria del Mar Bonet. They were awarded with the first prize in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, Duato was appointed steady NDT choreographer together with Hans van Manen and Jiří Kilián.

Nacho's choreographies have been included in the most prestigious international companies such as Cullberg Ballet y Nederlands Dans Theater, American Ballet Theater, The Australian Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet Gulbenkian, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Ballet or Paris Opera Ballet.

Choreographic works

• Ucelli (Respighi)
• Synaphai (Xenakis/Vangelis)
• Bolero (Ravel)
• Arenal (Bonet)
• Chansons Madecasses (Ravel)
• Raptus (Wagner Wesendonck Lieder)

Compañía Nacional de Danza^[4]:

• Concierto Madrigal (Rodrigo)
• Opus Piat (Beethoven)
• Empty (collage de Kobayashi, Glass, Hendrix, Sculthorpe, Shankar, Marta y Camille Saint-Saëns)
• Coming Together (Rzewski)
• Mediterrania (collage de Jerónimo Maesso, Bonet, Peter Griggs, Lisa Gerrard, Perry, Juan A. Arteche and Javier Paxariño)
• Cautiva (Iglesias)
• Alone, for a Second (Satie)
• Tabulae (Iglesias)
• Ecos (Micus)
• Cero sobre cero (Iglesias)
• Por vos muero (Spanish music from the 15th and 16th centuries)
• Self (Iglesias)
• Remansos (Granados)
• Romeo y Julieta (Sergei Prokofiev)
• Without Words (Schubert)
• Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Herrumbre (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero)
• Diecisiete (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero)
• Hevel (Pedro Alcalde and Sergio Caballero).
• Jardi Tancat 1983

Prizes and Awards

• 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, First prize for Jardí tancat.
• 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprije for his dancing skilfulness
• 1995: The grade of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres which is awarded annually by the French Embassy in Spain.
• 1998: Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Council.
• 2000: Prix Benois de la Danse awarded by 'the 'International Dance Association at the Stuttgart Opera, for his choreography Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Multiplicidad, formas de silencio y vacío).^[5]
• 2003: Awarded the Spanish National Dance Award (Premio Nacional de Danza) for choreography.^[6]

References

External links

• Página personal de Nacho Duato Archived 18 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine(Spanish)
• Nederlands Dans Theater (Dutch)
• Nederlands Dans Theater^{[dead link]} (English)
• Compañía Nacional de Danza(Spanish)
• Archive film of Nacho Duato's Gnawa performed in 2010 at Jacob's Pillow
• Archive film of Nacho Duato's Arenal performed in 2004 at Jacob's Pillow

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