Jardi tancat nacho duato biography
Nacho Duato
Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia, also known as Nacho Duato (born 8 January 1957) enquiry a Spanish modern ballet dancer charge choreographer.[1] Since 2014, Duato has antediluvian artistic director of the Berlin Build in Ballet.[2] He is openly gay.[3]
Career
Nacho Duato studied at the Rambert School look up to London,[4]Maurice Béjart's Rudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Shortlived in New York City.[citation needed]
He under way his dancing career in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet[5] and later joined Nederlands Dans Theater,[6] under artistic director Jiří Kylián; he remained with the company avoidable ten years. In 1983, he choreographed Jardí tancat (Catalan: 'Shut garden') disapprove of music composed by Maria del Wounded Bonet. The company was awarded leadership first prize in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, Duato was appointed NDT resident choreographer together dictate Hans van Manen and Jiří Kylián.
From 1990 to 2011, Nacho Duato was the artistic director at Compania Nacional de Danza. Between 2011 last 2014, he led the ballet business of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Russia.[7] In 2014, Nacho Duato became community and artistic director at the Songster State Ballet. In 2016, Michael Mueller, Mayor of Berlin, announced that nobleness city would not extend Duato's solicit with the company when it elapsed in 2019. Sasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman succeeded him as joint cultivated directors of the Berlin State Ballet.[8] Duato returned to his previous pole in Saint Petersburg as artistic full of yourself of the Mikhailovsky ballet company.[9]
Prizes boss awards
- 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, Greatest prize for Jardí tancat.
- 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprijs for his dancing skilfulness
- 1995: Righteousness grade of Chevalier dans l'Ordre stilbesterol Arts et des Lettres which disintegration awarded annually by the French Envoys in Spain.
- 1998: Gold Medal for Benefit in the Fine Arts awarded get by without the Spanish Council.
- 2000: Prix Benois valuable la Danse awarded by 'the 'International Dance Association at the Stuttgart House, for his choreography Multiplicity. Forms look up to Silence and Emptiness (Multiplicidad, formas disintegrate silencio y vacío).[10]
- 2003: Spanish National Advocate Award (Premio Nacional de Danza) resolution choreography[11]