SKIRBALL CND2 PR 012611v2 - Skirball Center for the Performing

For Immediate Release
January 26, 2011
NYU’S SKIRBALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS TO PRESENT
THE MADRID-BASED COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE DANZA 2, MARCH 31—APRIL 2
Company’s Final Tour Performing Repertoire of Celebrated Choreographer Nacho Duato
Based in Madrid, Spain, Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 (CND2) has garnered international acclaim for its
passionate contemporary ballet. The company will come to NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at a
major turning point in CND2’s history: Having just bid farewell to founding Artistic Director Nacho Duato, the
company is on their final tour performing his world-renowned choreography. In a limited run March 31—April 2 at
the Skirball Center, CND2 will perform Duato’s Jardi Tancat, L’Amoroso and Gnawa.
Performances will take place Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 P.M.; Friday,
April 1 at 8:00 P.M.; and Saturday, April 2 at 2:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M.
Tickets are $25—$50 and can be purchased online at
www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu, or by phone at 212.352.3101 (toll free at
866.811.4111). NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is located at
566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square.
Nacho Duato has made an indelible contribution to Spanish dance. After
a highly regarded education and career at the Rambert School in
London, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Nederland
Dans Theater in Holland, Duato returned to Spain in 1990 to take over
the Compañía Nacional de Danza. CND2 was created in 1999 as the
Compañía’s junior company. Together with Assistant Artistic Director
Tony Fabre, a former dancer with Compañía Nacional de Danza, Duato
has made CND2 a highly seasoned company in its own right, with
dynamic dancers and a global audience.
The Skirball Center program will include Jardi Tancat, Duato’s first piece
of choreography. Created when Duato was a member of Nederlands Dans Theater, the piece premiered at
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 in December 1983 and was first performed by Compañía Nacional de Danza at
Madrid’s Teatro Albéniz in April 1992. Jardí Tancat (Catalan for Closed Garden) is based on Catalonian folk tales
collected and sung by Maria del Mar Bonet. With a sweet yet passionate melancholy, these folksongs and their
dance portrayal tell the story of the people who work the barren land, praying to God for the rain that does not
come and enduring with great spirit in the face of hardship.
L’Amoroso is the first dance Duato created expressly for the CND2, who performed its world premiere at Teatro de
Madrid in May 2004. In it, he uses a selection of Italian baroque music, which, combined with the freshness and
youth of the dancers, results in a dynamic, vital performance.
In Gnawa—premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in March 2005 and first performed by Compañía Nacional
de Danza in November 2007—Duato seeks to transmit, through the medium of movement, the sensuality of the
Mediterranean landscape and peoples. The work takes its name from mystic Muslim brotherhoods that use music
and dance to reach a state of ecstasy. A score featuring organic, percussive Spanish and North African sounds
complements the elegance of the dancers.
Led by Artistic Director Hervé Palito and Co-Artistic Director Fabrice Edelmann , CND2’s dancers are Elisabet
Biosca, Eva Boiro, Alba Carbonell, Heejae Choi, Hugo Cortey, Sandra Guénin, Eliton Barros, Giuseppe Dagostino,
Camille Granet, Erez Ilan, Jessica Lyall, Doron Perk and Antonio Sisca.
About NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing
arts events for New York University and lower Manhattan. Led by executive producer Jay Oliva (President Emeritus,
NYU) and senior director Michael Harrington, the programs of the Skirball Center reflect NYU's mission as an
international center of scholarship, defined by excellence and innovation and shaped by an intellectually rich and diverse
environment. A vital aspect of the Center's mission is to build young adult audiences for the future of live performance.
For more information, including a complete calendar of the Skirball Center’s 2010/2011 season, please visit
www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu.
Funding Credits
NYU Skirball Center programming is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. CND2 is part of the
Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Press Contact: Blake Zidell at
Blake Zidell & Associates, 718.643.9052 or [email protected].