This is a version for twelve dancers, based on ‘Bolero’, the duet Rubio Gamo presented at Spring Forward 2017 in Aarhus. Gran Bolero is about tenacity, a grand piece which explores the frontier between lightness and gravity and the fine line separating pleasure and exhaustion.
Jesús Rubio Gamo’s Gran Bolero at Spring Forward 2022
Elefsina, GreeceFormer Aerowaves artist Jesús Rubio Gamo has been invited to present ‘Gran Bolero’ to celebrate 25 years of Aerowaves in Elefsina on 1 May 2022.
The production of this grand piece is an exchange between Barcelona’s Mercat de les Flors and Madrid’s Teatros del Canal bringing together six dancers from each city. In the context of the performance in Elefsina, local amateur performers will join the Spanish dancers on stage.
Idea, Artistic Direction and Choreography: Jesús Rubio Gamo
Performers: Alberto Alonso, Eva Alonso, Albert Barros, Agnès Balfegó,
Natalia Fernandes, María Hernando, Joel Mesa, Iván Montardit, Clara
Pampyn, Carlos Peñalver, Jose Ruiz, Paula Tato
Music: José Pablo Polo based on Boléro by Maurice Ravel
Coproduction: Mercat de les Flors and Teatros del Canal
Costume design: Cecilia Molano
Tailoring: Naldi Fernandes
Lightning design: David Picazo
Assistant director: Alicia Cabrero
Artistic accompaniment: Elena Córdoba
Production: Jorge Rúa
Production assistant: Claudia Córdova
Coproduction: Mercat de les Flors and Teatros del Canal
With the collaboration of: Conde Duque and Universidad Complutense de
Madrid
Jesús Rubio Gamo
Jesús Rubio Gamo (Madrid, 1982) is an independent dancer and choreographer based in Madrid.
After studying ballet and contemporary dance and graduating at the Royal School of Dramatic Art, Jesús was awarded with a MAE-AECI grant to develop dance studies in a foreign country. He moved to London where he completed an MA in choreography at London Contemporary Dance School (Distinction). He has also studied an MA in Performative Studies at Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
His work has been presented at national and international festivals and venues Chantiers d’Europe, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Brandhaarden Festival, International Theatre Amsterdam, Dançanet Swedish tour, Escena Contemporánea (Madrid), Hay Festival (Arequipa) or RomaEuropa Festival. He has been artist in residence in institutions such as La Casa Encendida and Teatros del Canal (Madrid), The Place (London), La Caldera (Barcelona), Auditorio de Tenerife or Dantzagunea and Ballet Biarritz (Aterpean). He was selected twice as an Aerowaves Artists and presented the duet ‘Bolero’ at Spring Forward Festival 2017 in Aarhus and in 2018 in Sofia he presented and performed his solo ‘Ahora que no somos demasiado viejos todavía.’
Rubio Gamo premiered GRAN BOLERO, a piece for twelve dancers (six from Madrid and six from Barcelona) coproduced by Teatros del Canal and Mercat de les Flors, received the MAX Award for the Best Dance piece in 2020 and in the same year Jesús Rubio Gamo was also awarded with the OJO CRÍTICO Prize of the Spanish National Radio.