At the height of his flamenco career, Andrés Marín set off on a pilgrimage to the mythical sources of his art — Yātrā means journey in Sanskrit — and exposed himself to a perfectly mastered pas de deux with the dancers of Kader Attou’s company. The two choreographers met in order to immerse themselves in each other’s aesthetics and look with contemporary eyes at their own dance to better rediscover its essential aspects and intensity. This dialogue between the solar and refined hip hop of Kader Attou and the iconoclastic flamenco of Andrés Marín is carried along by the breath of the musical and vocal jousts of the Ensemble Divana, a magnificent formation of traditional musicians from Rajasthan. A rare adventure — commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris — where opposites unite to form a show in which each retains their living forces while opening up to the other.

Andrés Marín is one of the most singular dancers of  the current flamenco scene. His productions have focused on the flamenco  tradition and specifically on the classical songs, but not from a  conventional perspective, but through a very personal style and an  aesthetic of absolute contemporaneity. Choreographer, artistic and  musical director of his own company, his creations reflect the  expressive freedom of a deep artistic research. From there is born a  poetics rich in suggestive images, at the service of his commitment to  art and to himself. He is currently one of the great renovators of the  genre.

Andrés Marín was born in Seville in 1969. The son  of flamenco artists, he has lived the art since he was a child, both  through dancing at his father's school, as well as singing, of which he  is a great fan and profound connoisseur. If there is a trait that  defines his career, it would be that of independence and non-attachment  to any company or school beyond his father's teaching. Self-taught and  unclassifiable, he began his professional career in 1992 as a soloist  and choreographer for different shows and events until he founded his  own company in 2002.

In all of Andrés Marín's works,  experimentation and risk reign, elements that the artist considers  essential for flamenco art to stay alive: Más allá del tiempo (2002), Asimetrías (2004), El alba del último día (2006), Vanguardia Jonda (2006), El cielo de tu boca (2008), La pasión según se mire (2010), Op.24 (2011), Tuétano (2012), Ad Libitum (2014), Yatra (2015), Carta Blanca (2015), D.Quixote (2017), La Vigilia Perfecta (2020) and Éxtasis Ravel  (2021). His creations have been welcomed by the main European circuits,  both in the flamenco genre and contemporary dance among which are the  Maison de la Danse de Lyon, the Teatros del Canal de Madrid, the Théâtre  National de Chaillot in Paris, Sadler's Wells in London, the Biennale  de Flamenco in Seville, Montpellier Danse, the Musée National  Picasso-Paris, the Opera de Lille, the Lucent DansTheater in The Hague,  the National Opera of Latvia, the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, the MC2:  Grenoble, Festival de Danse de Cannes, the Biennale d'Art Flamenco de  Paris, the Festival de Nîmes, the Festival de Jerez, Flamenco Viene del  Sur, the Sala Pleyel in Paris, the Festival ¡Mira! Festival and the  Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona.

A restless artist, always in search of new ways to submerge the  flamenco tradition in uncharted waters, Andrés Marín has collaborated  with artists from various disciplines throughout his career in the  conviction that flamenco can dialogue without complexes with other arts:
Pilar Albarracín, visual artist. Action for video "Bailaré sobre tu tumba" (2004).
Blanca Li, choreographer. "Poeta en Nueva York"  (2007-2008) Nominated for the Max Awards for Best Male Dance Performance  for his role as Lorca.
Llorenç Barber, experimental composer (bells). "E"l Cielo de tu Boca" (2008-2011).
Bartabas, director of the equestrian and musical theater Zíngaro. "Golgota" (2013-2016).
Kader Attou, hip-hop dancer and director of the  National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle (CCN). "Rencontres" (2014)  and "Yatra" (2015-2018).
Ensemble Divana, musicians from Rajasthan. World Sacred Spirit Festival 2016, Jodpur (India).
Laurent Berger, playwright and director of contemporary theater. "D.Quixote" (2017-2019).
Marie-Agnés Gillot, dancer Étoile. Christian Rizzo, choreographer, audiovisual artist. "Magma" (2019-2021).
José Miguel Pereñíguez, visual artist. "La Vigilia Perfecta" (2020), "Éxtasis Ravel" (2021)
Jon Maya, Basque dantzari. "Yarin" (2022)

The  artist combines his choreographic and artistic activity with the  direction of Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, a production office and his  own dance studio based in Seville.

Source and more information: https://www.andresmarin.es/en/

After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England…)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". “Chernobyl, a natural history ? “ These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.

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