José de Udaeta

José de Udaeta (born May 27, 1919 in Barcelona ; † September 14, 2009 there ) was a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer, teacher, castanets virtuoso and author.

Life

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Udaeta was the youngest of eight children in an upper-class Catalan family. In addition to his medical studies, he studied classical dance with Juan Magriña in Barcelona with further training in Paris with Serge Lifar and Boris Kniaseff. He then studied Spanish dance with Francisca Gonzalez and Regla Ortega in Madrid, Escuela bolera with the Pericet siblings and flamenco technique with Juan Sanchez, "El estampio". From 1945 to 1949 he was a permanent solo dancer and choreographer at the Madrid opera stages. Together with his wife, Marta Font, with whom he had been married since 1945, he had two sons: Alberto de Udaeta (* 1947) and Santiago de Udaeta.

Udaeta started his international career in Geneva in 1948 together with the Swiss dancer Susanne Looser (1916–2010). As "Susana y José" both performed together for 22 years. Orfeo gitano (1951), Don Juan (1952), Romance de Carmen y Don José (1958) and La Celestina (1966) are among the most important choreographies of this collaboration . Over the years, the ensemble has included renowned flamenco singers such as Enrique Morente and Maria La Talegona and musicians such as the pianists Armin Janssen (stage name: Antonio Robledo ) or the guitarists Paco Hernandez and Andrés Batistaan.

From the 1990s Udaeta returned as a character actor to the dance floor back: as Don Quixote (Staatsoper Berlin), Herod in Salome by Richard Strauss (Teatro Liceo Barcelona) and as the Commendatore in Don Juan ( Ballet Nacional de España , Madrid).

Udaeta was guest choreographer for the Hanover Opera House (1952), Zurich (1956), Amsterdam (1975/76) and appeared with two choreographies for the New York Harkness Ballet and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (1970). Further stations as a choreographer were the Royal Ballet Copenhagen (1978), Stockholm (1978), Dallas (1983); Ludwigsburg Palace Festival (1984), Salzburg Festival (1985), Düsseldorf / Duisburg (1986), Deutsche Oper Berlin (1987), State Theater Stuttgart and State Theater Salzburg (1988), Düsseldorf / Duisburg (1989), State Theater Stuttgart (1991), State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin (1993). From 1993 he choreographed for the Arsis Chamber Ballet Barcelona and from 1994 for his own stage show La Castañuela Viva (on tour), later for the Aalto Oper Essen (1999) and the Vienna State Opera (2001).

Dance pedagogy

José de Udaeta began teaching in 1948 at the latest, when he was part of the team of lecturers led by Mary Wigman , Harald Kreutzberg and Rosalia Chladek at the international summer courses in Zurich . In 1957 he was a guest lecturer at the Roleff King School in Munich. From 1958 to 1978 he taught at the annual International Summer Academy of Dance in Krefeld and Cologne. From 1967 to 1970 he also taught at the ballet school of the Zurich Opera, 1972 to 1982 at the University of Music and Dance in Hanover, 1973 to 1981 at the Vienna Dance Academy, 1975 and 1980 at the ballet school of the Amsterdam Opera, 1976 to 1983 at the John Cranko Schule Stuttgart, as well as at the Copenhagen Opera Ballet, at the Stockholm Ballet Academy, at the Palucca School Dresden, at the Institute for Stage Dance in Cologne, at the Beijing Dance Academy, at the John Neumeier Ballet Center in Hamburg , at the Gothenburg Dance Academy, at the Leipzig Opera Ballet School and at the State Ballet School Berlin. Furthermore at many private dance training institutes, e.g. B. two to three times a year from 1976 to 1995 at the Braig-Witzel-Schule in Stuttgart or between 1988 and 1991 at the Heinz Bosl Foundation in Munich. In 1973 Udaeta opened his own center for Spanish dance in Sitges near Barcelona, ​​which he directed until 1994. Since 1977 Udaeta has also been teaching concertante castagnette, especially in guest courses at American universities and German ballet centers.

Castanets virtuoso

Since 1970, Jose de Udaeta has been intensively involved with the technique of playing the concertante castanets and started another career at the age of 57 in 1976: as a castanet virtuoso. Until 2007 he gave a record of 131 castanets concerts on international stages. As a duo partner, he celebrated triumphs with the opera singer Montserrat Caballé between 1977 and 2003 on the most important opera and concert stages: at La Scala in Milan , at the Royal Opera House in London, in New York's Carnegie Hall , at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, in Munich, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Barcelona, ​​the Royal Festival Hall London and the Berlin Philharmonic , the London Hampton Court Palace and the Vienna Konzerthaus . Between 1979 and 2002 he was on stage thirteen times with his own programs at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival .

Appreciation

Honorable Ilustrissimo Don José de Udaeta is considered to be one of the most important (unofficial) “ambassadors of Spanish culture”, as his numerous awards prove in addition to his international successes.

Works as an author

• Flamenco . The dance archive series , vol. 5. Hamburg 1964.
• The Spanish castanets. Origin and development . (German English). Ulrich Steiner Verlag, Overath 1985. ISBN 3-924953-02-3 (Spanish edition: Editiones del Serbal, Barcelona 1989).

Awards

• 1987 German Dance Prize
• 1989 Medalla de Bellas Artes , awarded by the Spanish King Juan Carlos I, combined with the title "Ilustrissimo"
• 1995 Premi Nacional de Dansa de Catalunya (National Prize for Dance of the Country of Catalonia)
• 2000 Medalla de oro del merit de les arts of the city of Barcelona
• 2001 la Creu de Saint Jordi (the cross of St. George, the highest award of the state government of Catalonia), combined with the title Honorable
• 2004 Critics' Prize for his performance El secreto de la castañuela at the Flamenco Festival in Jerez de la Frontera

literature

Monographs:

• SBTG (Ed.), Alain Bernard (Red.): Susana y José . Bern 1969.
• Gerhard Zacharias: Susana y José - Spanish spirit in dance . Frick Verlag, Vienna 1970.
• Ulrich Roehm and Kurt Peters : Festschrift Deutscher Tanzpreis 1987 José de Udaeta . German Professional Association for Dance Education, Essen 1987.
• Carlos Murias: José de Udaeta - 50 años en escena. Editiones del Serbal, Barcelona 1995. ISBN 84-7628-149-8
• Ria Schneider (Ed.): Memories of José de Udaeta. Ulrich Steiner Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2011. ISBN 978-3-924953-20-1 (with contributions by Reid Anderson , Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras , Nina Corti , Monique Janotta , Birgit Keil , Horst Koegler , Samy Molcho and Konstanze Vernon ) .

Essays:

• Ursula Pellaton: Homage to Susana y José . In: Tanz und Gymnastik , Vol. 55 No. 1 (1999), p. 31.

Web links

• Websites authorized by José de Udaeta
• Obituary by Ria Schneider
• Dance award laudation by Kurt Peters
• Page about José de Udaeta at the German Dance Archive Cologne .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roger Salas: JOSÉ DE UDAETA.- BAILAORES / AS - El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco. In: El arte de vivir el Flamenco. Retrieved September 26, 2018 (esp). 
2. ↑ https://www.stiftung-konkrete-kunst.de/pressematerial/2015_udaeta_biografie.pdf . Retrieved March 24, 2019.
3. ↑ http://tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch/wiki/Susana . Retrieved March 24, 2019.
4. ↑ https://www.flamencos-enroute.com/24-1-Antonio . Retrieved March 25, 2019
5. ↑ José de Udaeta. Danza. Biografía y obras en España es cultura. Retrieved September 26, 2018 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ http://www.kastagnetten.com/?Jos%26eacute%3B_de_Udaeta . Retrieved March 25, 2019.
7. ↑ Schneider 2011, p. 64.
8. ↑ Ediciones El País: Entregadas las 10 medallas de plata al mérito de las Bellas Artes . In: El País . November 8, 1989, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed September 26, 2018]).