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SPAIN
ALTA REALITAT - DMDANZA
Jordi Cortés and Damián Muñoz: Ölelés
West Coast Premiere
Co-presented with
REDCAT/ Roy And Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

At once gripping, physically intense and genuinely lyrical, this award-winning extended duet for two men marks the first collaboration between acclaimed Catalan choreographers and performers Jordi Cortés and Damián Muñoz -- two of Spain's most innovative young dance artists. Based on writer Sándor Márai's 1942 masterpiece Embers, the high-velocity, nearly violent piece dramatizes the bitter reunion of two long-estranged friends, who look back to the fateful betrayal that shattered their bond 40 years earlier. Ölelés has received the Ciudad de Barcelona Award and the Premio de la Feria Internacional de Huesca. Cortés has performed with Iztok Kovack, Nigel Charnock and DV8 Physical Theatre, among others. Muñoz, dubbed the Almodóvar of dance, won Spain's national choreographic competition in 1995 before forming his own company.

REDCAT Theatre - In Walt Disney Concert Hall
631 West Second Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-237-2800
November 6-8
Thu 11.6.08 8:30 pm |
$20 |
Fri 11.7.08 8:30 pm |
$20 |
Sat 11.8.08 8:30 pm |
$25 |
www.redcat.org
Jordi Cortés
Jordi Cortés was trained as a contemporary dancer at the Dance and Theatre Institute in Barcelona (1983-1987.) He has worked as a performer and choreographer in Spain, Great Britain, Holland, Slovenia, Portugal, and New Zealand, and has taken part in productions which have travelled all around Europe, America and Oceania. He is founding member of Lanónima Imperial and Heightened Reality London, both theatre companies. He also works for companies such as Iztok Kovack, Nigel Charnock, Wendy Houston and DV8 Physical Theatre, with whom he spent five seasons in London. He has participated in workshops with Theatre Complicite, Bunker, Jerwood Foundation, Theater Paneke, and Atalaya Teatro, among others, held in different countries like the US, Great Britain, Holland and Germany. His work as a teacher has been developed at schools and dance centers all over the world.
Damián Muñoz
He is a renowned Spanish choreographer and dancer who in two occasions has won First Prize in Madrid's Choreography Competition. With Ölelés, along with Jordi Cortés, he has won the Award for Best Dance Performance at the Feria de Huesca, and the Award Ciudad de Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at New York's Movement Research, Barcelona's Theatre Institute, and the Universidad del País Vasco. He has also been visiting choreographer at The Theatre School of Amsterdam, and Le Groupe Dance Centre for Developing New Language in Dance in Otowa and Toronto, Canada. He has worked on important Spanish stages such as the Fall Festival of Madrid and the National Dramatic Center (Olimpia Theatre), and has competed in international contests in various countries, including Brazil and France.
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