LaFACT de Terrassa says goodbye to its 40th BBVA Dansa season this weekend with a gala of previous dancers from great institutions: Paris Opera, Rome, Vienna, Berlin or Amsterdam. This European Dance Night will feature figures such as Maia Makhateli, dancer of the year in 2020 by Dance Europe magazine and nominated for the Benois de la Danse, who will dance a Ryamonda pas de deux with her partner at Het National Ballet, Victor Caixeta , as well as the famous Trois Gnossiennes by Hans Van Manen to music by Satie. Three first swords from the Paris Opera Ballet will also appear on stage, as will the famous Cuban Alejandro Virelles, who will dance, among others, a piece by David Dawson with music by Max Richter. It will be on Saturday (8 p.m.) and Sunday (6 p.m.).
This season, which registers 14,000 spectators, gives way in January to another with 16 shows: Xiexin Dance Theater from China, B-Dance from Taiwan and Forever Tango from Argentina make their debut, and Ailey II and the National Ballet of Cuba return. LaFACT also brings the fifty-year-old American company Pilobolus and the Basques Dantzaz. And in Spanish dance, to the National Ballet of Spain and the Alejandro Lara Dance Project. More: the current director of the Paris Opera Ballet, José Carlos Martínez, will design a gala with stars from the Garnier company.
The season starts on January 20 in a romantic key, with Giselle from the International Classical Ballet (based in the Czech Republic) who already did Sleeping Beauty in Terrassa. The Cubans, for their part, will dance Don Quixote by Alicia Alonso. And Alvin Ailey’s young company, which celebrates half a century, will propose emerging choreographers and two incunabula: Ailey’s The Lark Ascending and Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure.
