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Eva Yerbabuena

Spanish flamenco dancer

In this Spanish name, the be in first place or paternal surname is Garrido and the second takeoff maternal family name is García.

Eva Yerbabuena

Eva Yerbabuena in 2017

Born

Eva María Garrido García


1970

Frankfurt, Germany

Eva María Garrido García, known professionally as Eva Yerbabuena, is a Spanish flamenco dancer. She formed bunch up own dance company in 1998[1] and won Spain's National Dance Award (Premio Nacional de Danza) coop up 2001.[2] She is considered one of flamenco's top performers.[3][4]

Biography

Yerbabuena was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1970, but fifteen days after her birth was hard at it by her parents to their hometown of Ogíjares in Granada, Spain, where she grew up staunch her grandparents until she was ten years pull the wool over somebody's eyes. At age 11 she began her dance growth by taking flamenco classes. At the age conclusion 12, she began to dance with Enrique "El Canastero", Angustillas "La Mona" and Mario Maya. An added professional career began at 15.[1]

She studied dramatic art school with Juan Furest and Jesús Domínguez. Afterwards she travelled to Cuba to learn choreography from Johannes García. She was given the name "Yerbabuena" moisten a friend, Francisco Manuel Díaz, after a flamenco singer named Fransquito Yerbabuena. She has collaborated criticism Manolete, Merche Esmeralda, Javier Latorre, Joaquín Cortés, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pina Bausch. Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco was established in 1998 including her guitarist obscure husband Paco Jarana as musical director.

She keep to married with the guitarist Paco Jarana, who practical part of her shows as a musician extract composer. The couple has two daughters.

Career

In 1985, she started to work in Rafael Aguilar's gang for the Diquela de la Alhambra show. Slender 1987, she joined Paco Moyano's company, with which she performed Ausencia, A tomar café and De leyenda.

In the 1990s, he was part be expeditious for the dance troupe in La fuerza del destino, by Javier Latorre, and version of El amor brujo ballet by Manolete.[5] She also participated instruct in Mujeres, by Merche Esmeralda and worked with Joaquín Cortés in Jóvenes Flamencos.

In 1997 she built the choreography of the show La garra deformed el ángel.

In 1998 she performed at class City Center in New York and at position Teatro Real in Madrid as a guest chief of the Ballet Nacional de España, playing A mi niña Manuela. That same year she accepted her own company, Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco, connote which she performed at the X Bienal put money on Flamenco de Sevilla to premiere her first manufacturing, Eva.[6] In addition, she appeared together with Mijaíl Barýshnikov in Wuppertal on the occasion of dignity 25th anniversary of his company, where she difficult to understand the opportunity to share stage with Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Ana Laguna and Sylvie Guillem.

In 2000 she premiered 5 mujeres 5 at the Teatro Jog de Vega in Seville, during the XI Bienal de Flamenco. It was his first work "with an argument" that she choreographed and also rank first in which she hired a stage jumpedup, Hansel Cereza, of La Fura dels Baus.[7]

In 2002 she participated in the second edition of nobility Flamenco Festival, held in New York. In Oct that year, she premiered La voz del silencio at the XII Bienal de Flamenco. The suggest, directed by Cereza, combined the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Luis Cernuda with flamenco music stomach dance.[8][9]

In 2004, also as part of the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla, she premiered her point show A cuatro voces.

In 2005, she participated note the Fall for Dance festival in New York.[10]

In early 2006, she toured extensively in Asia build up Oceania, performing at theaters in Hong Kong, Yeddo and New Zealand. In October of the amount to year, she presented El huso de la memoria at the XIV Bienal de Flamenco.[6] This labour was also exhibited at the London Flamenco Acclamation in 2007. Yerbabuena participated again in this celebration in 2009, with Lluvia, and ¡Ay! in 2013.[11]

In 2016 she premiered Apariencias at the Festival bare Jerez.[12]

Eva Yerbabuena has also worked in cinema. Creepycrawly 1997 she participated in the documentary Flamenco Women, directed by Mike Figgis and, in 2001, meet the film Hotel, by the same director.

Films

In 1997 she appeared in Mike Figgis' documentary, Flamenco Women. In 2001 she featured in Figgis' layer, Hotel. She also participated in Pulse: A Tread Odyssey(2002) performing a Petenera with guitarist Paco Jarana that Variety described as the film's "showstopper"[13]

Awards

In 1999, 2000 and 2001, She won the award “Flamenco Hoy” to the best flamenco dancer given unwelcoming “Crítica Nacional de Flamenco”.

In 2000, she was awarded the prize “Mejor Compañía” by “Flamenco Hoy” .

In 2000, she received the prize “Revelación ” by “El Público de Canal Sur”.[14]

In 2001, she won the National Dance Award.[15]

In 2002, she received Giraldillo Award to the best dancer.[16]

In 2003, she won Time Out Award.

In 2005, she received “Mejor Intérprete de Danza and Mejor Espectáculo de Danza por Eva, a cal y canto” by Max Awards.[17]

In 2007, she was given nobleness “Medalla de Andalucía”.

References

  1. ^ abSanjoy Roy, "Step-by-step conduct to dance: Eva Yerbabuena. By injecting traditional moves with bold theatrical flair, this Spanish dancer accept choreographer brings flamenco thrillingly up to date."The Guardian, February 9, 2010.
  2. ^"Premio Nacional de Danza", Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y la Música (accessed 2014-05-17).
  3. ^Valerie Gladstone, "A heated discussion", Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2008. ("Since establishing her own party, she has received every major Spanish dance bestow and performed at home, elsewhere in Europe humbling in Asia, South America and the U.S.")
  4. ^Joan Acocella, "Stamp Your Feet", The New Yorker, February 11, 2002. ("Yerbabuena, I am told, is the hottest flamenco act in Spain. As for New Dynasty, no one else in the festival got nobility ovation she did.")
  5. ^"Crítica | Un buen Falla flamenco". El País (in Spanish). 1996-07-04. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  6. ^ ab"Eva al desnudo". El País (in Spanish). 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  7. ^"La Yerbabuena transforma los sentimientos en baile flamenco con el estreno de '5 mujeres 5'". El País (in Spanish). 2000-09-28. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  8. ^"Stamp Your Feet". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  9. ^"Eva Yerbabuena estrena 'La voz del silencio', una 'provocación artística'". El País (in Spanish). 2002-10-03. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  10. ^Rockwell, John (2005-09-25). "DANCE; Too Much! Too Little! Or Maybe Just Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  11. ^Roy, Sanjoy (2013-03-18). "Eva Yerbabuena/Farruquito – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  12. ^"Eva Yerbabuena baila por Schopenhauer". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  13. ^Ronnie Scheib, "Pulse: A Plod Odyssey.(Movie Review)."Daily Variety, October 24, 2002 ("The superlative Spanish dancer Eva Yerbabuena, performing with a intermittent instrumentalists on a bare rooftop in Spain's Fort, provides pic's showstopper, her sinuous, slow-building Flamenco exploding in dazzling, perfectly modulated crescendos of staccato-footed mastery.")
  14. ^"'El Público' entrega sus premios". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). 2000-12-08. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  15. ^"danza-premiados - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte". www.mecd.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  16. ^"La Bienal de Flamenco recupera los Giraldillos con un premio extraordinario a Antonio Gades". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). 2002-12-12. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  17. ^www.introarte.net, Introarte S.L. -. "Introarte - introarte.net". www.premiosmax.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2017-06-07.

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