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This piece has its origins in the time Rubén Olmo asked me to create a new ad-hoc choreography with the First Dancer of the Ballet Nacional de España, Inmaculada Salomón. We had struck up a mutual understanding while putting together Electra (2017), a complicity that allowed us to go deeper into the creative process this time round, with an intimacy that is inherent in solo performance, but with a subtlety and nuance that only a performer of her sensitivity, maturity and experience can aspire to. As a result of my interest in Spain’s musical heritage, I discovered the Sevillian composer, Manuel Blasco De Nebra (1750-1784), and his original repertoire of Sonatas and Pastorelas for harpsichord and pianoforte. It was playing around with his music that inspired this creation. Its choreographic
language navigates, without prejudice, the bolero school and stylised contemporary dance, placing Goyaesque cadences and deconstructions alongside elements from the dance of today. With pristine
lighting and old-time wardrobe design, Pastorela is a poetic dialogue between music and movement, between the ephemeral and the eternal. A miniature of that which is past, a relic of that which is to come.
Antonio Ruz