Choreography by Nacho Duato
Music by Heitor Villa-Lobos arranged by Wagner Tisso
Set design by Walter Nobbe
Costume design by Nacho Duato
Lighting design by Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)
Staging by Nathalie Buisson
Organization and production by Carlos Iturrioz-Mediart
Producciones SL (Spain)
©Nacho Duato, all rights reserved
Rebecca Carmazzi Traci Gilchrest Anna Gerberich
Seia Rassenti Kara Wilkes
Sasha Janes David Ingram
Addul Manzano Justin VanWeest Randolph Ward
World premiered by the Netherlands Dans Theater 2 at the AT&T Danstheater in Den Hague, 15th February, 1990.
Premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza at the Teatro del Generalife, in Granada, 24th June, 1993.
Premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at the Teatro Albéniz, in Madrid, 25th May, 2000.
notes
Na Floresta, a magnificent triptych praising the beauty of the Amazonian rain forest, draws the very essence of its splendor from folklore. A passionate energy circulates within this work made up of sequences full of both substance and fluidity. Its success at its 1990 premiere was phenomenal. A plotless work to Villa-Lobos music, Na Floresta intended to communicate an intimacy and a feeling for nature that is greater than our contact with other beings. “Nacho Duato has that rare quality that consists of being able to express things through the voices of simplicity, restraint and circumspection when it comes to
expressing emotion.”
Na Floresta is part of the repertoire of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (Montreal–Canada), Le Ballet du Capitole (Toulouse-France), The Tulsa Ballet Theatre (Oklahoma-USA), The Hubbard Street Dance Theatre Co. (Chicago-USA), Introdans (Arnhem-The Netherlands), Europa Danse (Grasse-France), Stars Ballet (Tokyo-Japan), Royal Swedish Ballet (Stockhom-Sweden).
Scenery and costumes courtesy of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. |
