Dancing Times – Gonzalo Galguera https://gonzalo-galguera.com Ballet Choreographer and Director Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:41:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://gonzalo-galguera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-Icon-Gonzalo-Galguera-32x32.png Dancing Times – Gonzalo Galguera https://gonzalo-galguera.com 32 32 La Boutique Fantasque Petrushka https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2020/01/17/la-boutique-fantasque-petrushka/ https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2020/01/17/la-boutique-fantasque-petrushka/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:22:44 +0000 https://gonzalo-galguera.com/?p=5258 Dancing Times 01/17/2020: I was asked recently if anyone still pcrforms Petrushka. The ballet may seem old-fashioned, and the issue of the black-face Moor is challenging, but Ballett Magdeburg, based in the capital of Saxon-Anhalt, brought the work back from the past, dusted it down, and gave it new Life and a sophisticated look on a programmc, paircd with Ln Boutique fnlltnsque, all about dancing dolls and their secret Jives.

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]]> https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2020/01/17/la-boutique-fantasque-petrushka/feed/ 0 Dracula Ballet Magdeburg https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/17/dracula-ballet-magdeburg/ https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/17/dracula-ballet-magdeburg/#respond Fri, 17 May 2019 11:40:02 +0000 https://gonzalo-galguera.com/?p=5187 Dancing Times 05/17/2019:I confess to being apprehensive abou t seeing a ballet company for the first time performing a work likc Dracula, which could be a can vas for a 11 kinds of cliches. To my surprise, all worries disappeared as soon as the bl ue curtains of the Theater Magdeburg opened to reveal Ballet Magdeburg, a young ensemble of artistic, technically strong dancers, in a two-act romantic ballet full of action, and conceived and choreographed with good taste by Gonzalo Galguera, the company’s director and chief choreographer.

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]]> https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/17/dracula-ballet-magdeburg/feed/ 0 Magdebourg Ballet de L’Opéra “Dracula” https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/15/magdebourg-ballet-de-lopera-dracula/ https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/15/magdebourg-ballet-de-lopera-dracula/#respond Wed, 15 May 2019 13:06:35 +0000 https://gonzalo-galguera.com/?p=5213 Dancing Times 05/15/2019: le prendre a la gare, sa chambre est bien chauffee, Jes repas ser­vis avec raffinement. II ne voit le Comte qu’au moment ou la nuit tombe.
Personne d’autre dans la grande demeure! Au fil des jours il decouvre Ja vraie personnalite du celui qui essaie de le retenir le plus long temps possibJe, et dont il ne par­vient pas a se liberer.

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]]> https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/05/15/magdebourg-ballet-de-lopera-dracula/feed/ 0 A Brit in Bogotá https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/02/15/a-brit-in-bogota/ https://gonzalo-galguera.com/2019/02/15/a-brit-in-bogota/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:00:47 +0000 https://gonzalo-galguera.com/?p=5126 Dancing Times 02/15/2019: Colombia’s capital, Bogota, with its Teatro Mayor and other stages where opera and theatre blossom, has never had a ballet company as such. Theatres present international companies, as well as dancers such as Fernando Montafio and Jose Manuel Ghiso, but Ghiso tells me the city is an excellent place to develop a classical company in the future. Asked if he has ever considered coming back, he replies he will think about that “once I finish my career that, for now, will continue in Chile if Marcia Haydee continues as artistic director”.

 

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