Compañia Israel Galván
Arena
Flamenco’s most recent discovery answers to the name of Israel Galván.
Indubitably innovative and unmistakably contemporary, the 35 year-old dancer and choreographer has earned his place among the genre’s greatest dancers of all time. Arena is a spectacle shot through with the idea of the bull-fight (which won Spain’s National Dance Award in 2005), and will be Greek audiences’ first taste of his work. In it, Galván courageously takes on that celebrated reconstruction of death—Spain’s popular fiesta—in “six choreographies for six bulls which have passed through the sphere of myth”. The performance begins with a clear reference to Nijinsky—Galvan dances with his feet bare and his body in profile—but unfolds in his own personal style which seeks the authentic and eschews mannerisms, but never ceases to draw on Flamenco’s long tradition [K.V.].
