Afanador | Musique: Saavedra, Juan Cristóbal (n. 1974) Chorégraphie: Marcos Morau, Lorena Nogal, Shay Partush, Jon López |
Ballet Nacional de España | |
Max Glaenzel | Décors |
Silvia Delagneau | Costumes |
Bernat Jansa | Lumières |
Roberto Fratini | Dramaturgie |
Marc Salicru | Vidéaste |
Ruvén Afanador | Photography |
La Veronal | |
Rubén Olmo | Danse |
In his works Mil Besos, published in 2009, and Ángel gitano, from 2014, the Colombian photographer Ruvén Afanador has integrated the image of flamenco into contemporary visual language in a very personal way. Under the Andalusian sun and in high-contrast black and white, this author of covers for magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone erases in the aforementioned photographic series -focusing, respectively, on female and male bodies- the traditional gender limits in a magnificent play of light and shadow.
Afanador, by Marcos Morau - trained between Barcelona and New York, director of the dance company La Veronal and winner of the 2013 National Dance Prize - sets out to create from this photographer's gaze "a work of respect and fascination, like a dialogue that hybridises two languages in search of a new universe". Transforming one legacy into another, trying to build a common space: "because we all carry within us that which agitates us and our voices together are capable of moving forward and continuing to build imaginaries that inspire others". And so on.