He usually performs with his brothers…
Naama, Aaron, Gog, Arkano and Sagrida, from oldest to youngest. But not now: I put on my show.
¿Woman?
I look for the woman to see herself reflected.
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?
Crunches, push-ups, squats: fifty in sets of three. I don’t eat sugars. I drink only water. And I have good genetics: my father had forty children.
Forty? You’re wrong.
No, no: my father had forty children!
How is that possible?
Pedro Vivancos had eight wives.
Eight women! At once?
Gradually… and they all lived together.
A harem?
One family, one unit of love. For my father, family unity was the main thing.
And all eight were mothers?
An average of five children each.
In what years?
From the early 1970s to the late 1980s. In Spain it was impossible and they moved away to a remote corner of Canada, there in the Rocky Mountains.
You too?
I grew up there, at Quantico School, a school that my parents set up to educate us.
Wasn’t there jealousy between eight women?
They knew how to overcome the traditional couple, travel together a path of unique, harmonious, united human development.
Admirable.
The conventional couple does not usually promote the growth of its two members. The main thing is to grow yourself.
What values ??did they impart to you?
The value of the unit. And that of not moving by standards. And always be children.
And in what areas of knowledge?
Music, ballet, flamenco, arts, theatre, circus, gymnastics, martial arts… My father was a highly educated, erudite, traveled man, a martial arts champion in Japan and Korea: karate, judo, tae-kwondo… .
And a very fertile man.
With Mary, my mother, he had Elijah, Judah, Joshua, Christ, Israel, Joshua and I, Aaron: we are between 47 years old and my 41 years old.
And Biblical names.
My father was an intense student of the Bible.
Does your father live?
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 several brothers completed our training at the Institut del Teatre, in Barcelona.
Are you still together?
Life has been dispersing us around the world: some live in the United States, in Australia… But we are still in contact.
When did Los Vivancos start acting 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 United States we performed in Dancing with stars…
What counts now in Woman?
It is a narrative dance, a reflection on the feminine essence, a journey through the moments in the life of every woman.
Who gets on stage?
There are seven dancers. And an actress, Guadalupe Lancho. And myself.
And what will I see?
Flamenco dance with great force and heels. And large format 3D projections. You will see a great scenic drawing! And also the elegant couture of Alvarno.
What would your lord father say?
He was a sage. And a scholar. He would tell me that he should display my art in favor of the health and consciousness of the people. And that I do.
Health and conscience?
Yes, I want the viewer’s psyche to be transformed in a leap of consciousness.
Do you experience something like this?
I dance and forget time and space, I enter a state of peace and truth, an absolute present without judgments, without thoughts.
What has been the best compliment received?
An Egyptian woman recently told me: “I don’t understand Spanish, but what I have felt is deep, moving, I have cried.”
What dreams do you have today?
I am setting up a talent center in Madrid: I dance to transmit knowledge.
And do you think of your father?
A lot… His life still inspires me in truth, in his yearning for knowledge, in his spirituality… He got a lot out of little!
