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A program dedicated to current dance creation that accompanies artists in their creative process. This is Museo en Danza, the new program inaugurated this Thursday by the Museo Universidad de Navarra, which will run until November 30. José Manuel Garrido, director artistic of Performing Arts and Music, has stressed that dance is part of the essence of the Museum. "With Museo en Danza we culminate the process of strengthening our identity, which links dance with the Museum from the very beginning".

The directors of the participating companies also took part in the event at presentation : Itsaso A. Cano (Zuk Performing Arts), Dani Pannullo (Dani Pannullo DanceTheatre Co.), Pablo Palacios (director of high school Stocos with Muriel Romero), Jon Maya (Kukai Danza) and Carmen Cortés (Carmen Cortés Dance Company).

"Dance is one of the protagonists of the Museum's activity and we try to make our relationship with the artists more than just hiring a show we like and programming it. We do it but, above all, we generate a climate of trust and complicity. We show the spaces and collections of the Museum and we generate an artistic accompaniment that we try to premiere and have a life of its own," explained Garrido.

TWO OPENING SHOWS

The cycle began with Perfomance by Zuk Performing Arts, a show performed at the conference room exhibition of the sample Menhires by Elena Asins, where a group of dancers from the company interacted with this sculptural work. In his speech, the director of the company, Itsaso A. Cano, explained that they have made a work in the space where the 40 menhirs are located. "The proposal works with the perspective they generate and looking for the civil service examination of the ductile of the human body in movement to the hardness of the menhir and also similarities". The show has been accompanied by the music of the Canadian composer Sofia Comas.

Also, the choreographer has spoken of the residency program that has made for fifteen days at the Museum on his show subjectwhich will premiere at the Theater this Friday, at 7:30 p.m., after two years of work. "It has 22 people on stage and is told in the form of a Greek tragedy". During its stay at the Museum, the company has also taught a Contemporary Dance Workshop based on its creative process. "We have talked about each of the parts that make up the work: lighting, costumes, work audiovisual, musical composition... It has been very enriching, both what we have contributed to the students and what they have contributed to us." 

In this same inaugural workshop and also in the exhibition conference room of MenhirsThis Thursday, at 7:30 p.m., Carmen Cortés performs an excerpt from her show Tradition and Vanguard. "work much with the body, elasticity and figures and this sculpture is wonderful because, although it seems hieratic, has an impressive strength and warmth". He is accompanied on stage by the singer Antonio Carbonell and percussionist Rafael Caldera.

THE WORK OF ORTIZ ECHAGÜE, AN INSPIRATIONAL ENGINE

On the other hand, Dani Pannullo Dancetheatre CO. will present next November 16, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Theater, the work in progress Atlas Map of Moveson which he has been working for three years. "It is an urban dance show inspired by the work of José Ortiz-Echagüe - photographic collection that houses the Museum - and dreamlike dreams. There are images that inspire the 14 pieces we have choreographed and that are also a challenge for the audience. It's a proposal different from what I've done so far and I'm looking forward to result," said director.

The show presents a journey around the world through the new forms of urban expression represented by "six dancers, which is actually an urban ballet performed by athletes".

Pablo Palacio, co-director of high school Stocos, has pointed out the key points of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which will be performed on November 23, at 7:30 p.m., at the Theater. The show is inspired by William Blake 's work of the same name and combines dance, electroacoustic composition, interactive technology and cognitive science. "The focus of high school Stocos is the mutual fertilization between art and science, how the art of movement can inspire and transform the way we think. The work we bring reflects on the relationship between opposites, between body and technology and art and science."

Kukai Dantza will close this first edition of the cycle with Oskara Plazara (Dantza & Zinema) on November 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Theater. "I really wanted to do a show that was also a reflection of our processes of work. Therefore, we have a format that combines film and dance, which speaks of how we work", explained its director, Jon Maya. Thus, he recalled that when they were creating Oskara Plazara, the Navarrese film directors Pablo Iraburu and Iñaki Alforja shot a documentary on the creative process of this show. "Oskara Plazara unites the two issues: through the documentary the audience follows how the show has been developed and, at the same time, three dancers are performing the pieces".