He usually acts with his brothers…
Naama, Aaron, Gog, Arkano and Sagrida, from oldest to youngest. But not now: I do my show.
Woman ?
I want the woman to see herself reflected in it.
And his brothers?
They are putting on another show.
You have a reputation for being handsome.
I exercise my body five hours a day.
Yeah?
Sit-ups, push-ups, squats: fifty in sets of three. I don’t eat sugar. I only drink water. And I have good genetics: my father had forty children.
Forty? He was wrong.
No, no: the father had forty children!
How can it be?
Pedro Vivancos had eight wives.
Eight women! at the same time?
Gradually… and they all lived together.
Flour harem?
A family, a unit of love. For my father, family togetherness was the most important thing.
And all eight were mothers?
An average of five children each.
what years
From the early seventies to the late eighties. In Spain it was impossible and they moved away to a remote place in Canada, in the Rocky Mountains.
You too?
I grew up there, at Quantico School, the school my parents created to educate us.
Was there no jealousy between eight women?
They knew how to overcome the traditional couple, to travel together on a unique, harmonious, united path of human development.
Admirable!
The conventional couple does not usually promote the growth of its two members. The most important thing is to grow yourself.
What values ??did they teach them?
The value of the unit. And that of not moving by standards. And always be children.
And in which areas of knowledge?
Music, ballet, flamenco, arts, theater, circus, sports gymnastics, martial arts… My father was a very educated man, scholar, well-traveled, martial arts champion in Japan and Korea: karate, judo, tae kwon do. ..
And a very fertile man.
With María, my mother, she had Elías, Judá, Josuá, Cristo, Israel, Josué and I, Aaron: we are between 47 and 41 years old.
And biblical names.
Father was a good student of the Bible.
Is his father alive?
He died when I was still a teenager, due to a brain tumor.
And what did their wives and children do?
We returned to Spain and some brothers completed our training at the Theater Institute in Barcelona.
Are you still together?
Life has scattered us around the world: some live in the United States, in Australia… But we keep in touch.
When did Los Vivancos start performing as a group?
17 years ago: we debuted in Israel, and we have already performed four plays in seventy countries and three hundred cities.
How many people have seen them?
Thousands of people in theaters and many millions on television: in 2009, in China, we televised our New Year’s show, and in the USA we performed on Dancing with stars …
What does Woman tell us now?
It is a narrative dance, a reflection on the feminine essence, a journey through the moments of a woman’s life.
Who goes up on stage?
They are seven dancers. And an actress, Guadalupe Lancho. And myself
And what will I see there, if I come?
Flamenco dance with a lot of force and heeling. And 3D projections in large format. You will see a great scenic drawing! And also Alvarno’s elegant haute couture.
What would his lord father say, if he saw him?
He was a sage. And a scholar. He would tell me to deploy my art in favor of people’s health and awareness. And that’s what I do!
Health and awareness?
Yes, I want the viewer’s psyche to be transformed into a leap of consciousness.
Do you experience something similar?
I dance and forget time and space, entering a state of peace and truth, an absolute present without judgments, without thoughts.
What was the best compliment received?
An Egyptian woman told me recently: “I don’t understand Spanish, but what I heard was profound, exciting, I cried.”
What dreams do you have today?
I am setting up a talent center in Madrid: I dance and will always dance to transmit knowledge.
And do you think about your father?
A lot… I am inspired by his life in the truth, in his longing for knowledge, in his spirituality… Recently… he got a lot out of it!
