"Breathtaking sweep, vibrant musicality, and vivid Spanish soul."
—THE BOSTON GLOBE

COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE DANZA

• CHOREOGRAPHY BY NACHO DUATO

OCT 16, 18—20 AT 7:30PM
BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE
RUNNING TIME: 120MIN
TICKETS : $20, 35, 50, 60

In demand around the world for his richly imagistic choreography, Nacho Duato debuts at BAM with three signature dances performed by Spain's virtuosic Compañía Nacional de Danza. Each reveals a unique facet of Duato's command of movement and illustrates, through the use of a nuanced, technically brilliant dance vocabulary, why his work speaks to an increasingly international audience.

Performed to excerpts of Vivaldi choral works, Castrati is a spectacular dance, rife with furious ensemble movement and a harrowing finale in which eight men, dressed in black skirts and binding corsets, ambush a boy in white. Set to Spanish music from the Golden Age as well as poems of Garcilaso de la Vega, Por Vos Muero offers a modern take on the implicit, often furtive eroticism of court dance. The evening concludes with the US premiere of the severe and tender White Darkness, a dance that plumbs—with unreserved compassion—the depths of drug addiction.

Por Vos Muero
Choreography by Nacho Duato
Set design by Nacho Duato
Costume design by Nacho Duato and Ismael Aznar
Lighting design by Nicolás Fischtel
Text by Garcilaso de la Vega

Castrati
Choreography by Nacho Duato
Set design by Nacho Duato
Costume design by Francis Montesinos
Lighting design by Brad Fields

White Darkness
Choreography by Nacho Duato
Set design by Jaffar Chalabi
Costume design by Lourdes Frías
Lighting design by Joop Caboort

Photo by Jesús Vallinas