Eva Yerbabuena

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Eva Yerbabuena (actually Eva María Garrido García; born June 22, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer .

Life

  • At the age of 11 she saw Manuela Carrasco and Concha Vargas dance and became enthusiastic about flamenco. She took her first lessons at the age of 12, but also learned through observation and imitation as her parents lacked the means to pay for an education with the renowned teachers she wanted. Your artistic role model was and is Carmen Amaya .
  • Later she studied dramaturgy with Juan Furest and Jesús Domínguez.
  • Then she traveled to Cuba to learn choreography with Johannes García .
  • She was given the name Yerbabuena (German mint ) after the flamenco singer Frasquito Yerbabuena through a friend, Francisco Manuel Díaz .
  • Eva Yerbabuena worked with well-known dancers such as Manolete , Merche Esmeralda , Javier Latorre , Joaquín Cortés , Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pina Bausch .
  • In 1997 she made her debut as a choreographer with A vueltas con Cuba and La garra y el ángel .
  • In 1998 she founded the Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco , in which the guitarist and her husband Paco Jarana are also involved as music director. The company made its first appearance with the play Eva at the Seville Biennale .
  • In the same year Pina Bausch celebrated the 25th anniversary of her own company. At the invitation of Pina Bausch, the Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco performed the piece A mi niña Manuela at the Opera of Wuppertal .
  • With the play Eva , she traveled the world with her company. By 2002, 200 performances had taken place, including in London , São Paulo , Strasbourg , Rouen , Marseille, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
  • In 2000 she performed in Nîmes , Lisbon , Jerez de la Frontera , Paris , at the Festival of Mont-de-Marsan and at the World Exhibition in Hanover . In the same year her company debuted in Seville with her second major work, 5 Mujeres 5 . For her as a solo dancer, the piece was a parforce tour through the palos of flamenco . She danced in the soleá por bulerías , the Martinete , the soleá Apola that Caña , the minerality, tangos and Seguiriya . Performing alternately 5 Mujeres 5 and Eva , the ensemble toured the renowned stages and flamenco festivals: the Teatro de las Zarzuela and the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Tívoli in Barcelona , the Jerez Flamenco Festival , the Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville, the Festival in Albuquerque (USA), the Barbican Theater in London and the Forum Pro-Cultura in Monterrey , USA. She performed again in Wuppertal, together with Sylvie Guillem , Alain Platel and other renowned dancers.
  • In 2001 she created two more choreographies, Dharma for the Compañia Andaluza de Danza and Flamenco de la Cava for her own ensemble. For her outstanding interpretation of the Soleá in this piece, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Danza in the Interpretation category.
  • With La voz del silencio she broke new ground at the Seville Biennale in 2002: the piece, telling a love story, offers a synthesis of drama, flamenco and contemporary dance. In the same year she created the choreography Contrabandistas together with David Morales . This year was also a year of global appearances, including in New York, Boston, Washington, Havana and London.
  • In 2002 her project A cuatro voces began , which she developed further in the following years. The piece interprets works of the four poets Federico Garcia Lorca , Vicente Aleixandre , Miguel Hernández and Blas de Otero in dance form . It won the prize for the best music premiere at the Seville Biennale.
  • In 2004 Eva Yerbabuena danced at Pina Bausch's Düsseldorf Dance Theater Festival in her choreography Nefés . The paths of the two artists were to cross several times in the following years.
  • In 2005 she was awarded the MAX prize for performing arts twice, on the one hand for the best dancer and on the other hand for the best stage play with Al cal y canto .
  • In 2006 her choreography El huso de la memoria had its premiere in Madrid at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. This piece also took her on tours around the world with her company and in Spain's centers of flamenco, Seville and Jerez . For this piece she was once again awarded the MAX prize for the best stage play.
  • In 2007 she was honored with the Medalla de Andalucía for her complete artistic work.
  • In 2009 her production Lluvia premiered; then she went on tour around the world with it.
  • In 2010 she brought Cuando yo era… to the stage of the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. This piece was awarded the Premio Giraldillo for best stage direction at the Flamenco Biennale .
  • In 2011 Federico según Lorca premiered it in the gardens of the Generalife in Granada .
  • In 2015 she presented ¡Ay! in Madrid. In this piece, after many years, she danced alone again, without her company, accompanied only by singers and musicians in a classical flamenco line-up.
  • In 2016, with Apariencias , she made philosophical considerations the subject of dance interpretation. It deals with questions of power and interpersonal manipulation and also deals with current political problems such as the refugee crisis .

Movies

  • In 1997 she worked with Sara Baras and other flamenco dancers and singers such as Elena Andujar, Montse Cortes and Guadiana in Mike Figgis ' documentary Flamenco Women . In the film, Figgis captures the process of creating a show in which the artists only have six days to prepare and rehearse.
  • In 2001 she appeared as a flamenco dancer in the Mike Figgis film Hotel .
  • Eva Yerbabuena also has a role in Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey (2002) in which she performs a petenera with guitarist Paco Jarana .

reception

The critic, specialist author and flamenco expert Ángel Álvarez Caballero wrote about them in the magazine Flamenco Internacional :

"Dudo mucho que ninguna de las bailaoras flamencas de hoy sea capaz de interpretar tantos estilos, con esta perfección."

"I very much doubt whether any flamenco dancer is capable of interpreting so many styles with such perfection."

- Ángel Álvarez Caballero : Flamenco Internacional , London, 2001

Marta Carrasco wrote in ABC magazine :

"Si en Flamenco existieran los diez mandamientos supongo que tendíamos que resumirlos en uno, y este no sería otro que la soleá que ayer bailó Eva Yerbabuena para poner punto y final a su voz en el silencio."

“If there were the Ten Commandments in flamenco, then I guess we'd have to combine them into one. This would be none other than the Soleá that Eva Yerbabuena danced yesterday as the climax and finale in her (performance) Voz en el silencio , "

- Marta Carrasco : ABC España, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V. Signatura Ediciones de Andalucía, Sevilla 2010, ISBN 978-84-96210-88-2 , p. 23 .
  2. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 23-24 .
  3. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 24 .
  4. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 25 .
  5. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 27 .
  6. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 29 .
  7. ↑ a b José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 30 .
  8. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 30-31 .
  9. ↑ a b c d José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 33 .
  10. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 34 .
  11. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 36 .
  12. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 37 .
  13. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 38 .
  14. ↑ a b c José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 41 .
  15. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 37 .
  16. ^ Dance theater. (PDF) 3 weeks with Pina Bausch. (No longer available online.) 2004, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; Retrieved on July 1, 2017 (program of the Düsseldorf Dance Theater Festival). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationales-tanzfestival.de
  17. ^ Thérèse Wassily Saba: Pina Bausch, Wim Wenders and Eva 'La Yerbabuena'. In: My Flamenco Diary. August 13, 2010, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Eva Yerbabuena estreno "El Huso de la memoria" en Madrid. In: ABCMadrid. September 15, 2006, Retrieved July 1, 2017 (Spanish).
  19. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 38 .
  20. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 43 .
  21. ↑ a b c Eva La Yerbabuena. In: defllamenco.com. Retrieved July 1, 2017 (Spanish).
  22. ^ Verónica Figueroa Ortega: Una reflexión aflamencada . In: El País . February 18, 2015 (Spanish, elpais.com [accessed July 1, 2017]).
  23. ^ Pepe Barahona: Eva Yerbabuena baila por Schopenhauer . In: El Español . Seville February 16, 2016 (Spanish, elespanol.com [accessed July 1, 2017]).
  24. ↑ José Luis Navarro García: Historia del Baile Flamenco . Volume V, S. 37 .
personal data
SURNAME Yerbabuena, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrido García, Eva María (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish flamenco dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main