Although the pandemic has imposed many limitations on artists, especially those in disciplines such as dance and other performing arts, viewers remain hungry for beauty. Proof of them is the success that the collaboration of the Granada Museum of Fine Arts and the Reina Sofía Professional Dance Conservatory. Together they have edited a video With which the exhibition space of the Palacio de Carlos V wanted to surprise viewers in 2021, but the surprise has been the flood of visits received: it already exceeds 12,000 views.
The idea started from Juan Martin Lopez, dissemination advisor of the Fine Arts Museum, since he was unable to carry out the usual face-to-face activities on these dates due to the health situation, he wanted to make a video with the collaboration of the Granada dance center. An audiovisual because, given the circumstances, these days the Museum’s management has opted for non-face-to-face events, recorded, edited and subsequently broadcast through their social networks.
Within this dynamic, the students of professional teachings of the specialty of Classical Dance have been recorded performing some varied choreographies shelled through the impressive rooms of the noble floor of the Palace of Carlos V, headquarters of the Museum. A show in which the performing arts and the plastic arts have shaken hands in a no two full of youth and color.
Released last Friday, January 1, this production exceeded 10,000 reproductions in just 48 hours from its premiere in the Youtube channel of the Granada Museum of Fine Arts. And is that, given the scarcity of activities planned from the Conservatory this year, both the teachers and the students of Dance welcomed the initiative with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm. “All the Dance students, who are more than 60, have participated so that the entire course of the Conservatory Training could be represented. The first two courses as figuration and from Third to Sixth with choreographies ”, he explains Paz Sabater, a professor at the Conservatory who was entrusted with directing the project.
The dancers and soloists in the 25-minute video – are therefore under the age of between 12 and 17 years old– have brilliantly overcome the difficulties that this project entailed. In this sense, Sabater comments that they have had little more than a month of margin to put together an adequate repertoire, trying to adapt the different choreographies to the spirit and content of each of the 8 rooms of the Museum, which include works dating from the 16th century and the XX. “The teachers have adapted choreographies that they were already working on but there are two specifically created,” explains the director about the effort made by the Conservatory’s dance teachers and the producer StudioSur in the technical part of the video shoot.
Sabater also notes added difficulty of the hardness of the marble floor of the Palace of Carlos V and the limitations imposed by the characteristics of the Museum itself, which was not the ideal setting for the technical demands of classical dance and which did not allow rehearsals in situ like a scenic space.
For those who have not seen it yet, the video, conceived as New Years Ballet, premiered on Friday, January 1, 2021 through the Museum’s social media profiles (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter), where it can continue to be enjoyed.
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