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13 July 1984 is a turning point in Spanish dance. That day the Ballet Nacional de España presented at the Zarzuela a programme that thirty years later still remains in the memory of those who watched it. One of the numbers was Ritmos, a piece Alberto Lorca dedicated to one of the icons of Spanish dance, Encarnación López “La Argentinita”. With this choreography Lorca did the same that George Balanchine had done regarding classical dance, with a piece like Theme and Variations. José Nieto’s music –a score both “heterodox” and fascinating– provides the backdrop for classical-pure Spanish dance movements, a range of steps in a work ruled by abstraction and full of magnetic dynamism. 

Ritmos performance (Teatro de la Zarzuela, 2009)