Flamenco dancers Ana Morales and Andrés Marín, National Dance Awards

The dancer Ana Morales, in the Interpretation category, and the choreographer Andrés Marín, in the Creation category, have today obtained the National Dance Awards, which are awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture and are endowed with 30,000 euros.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
06 October 2022 Thursday 11:48
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Flamenco dancers Ana Morales and Andrés Marín, National Dance Awards

The dancer Ana Morales, in the Interpretation category, and the choreographer Andrés Marín, in the Creation category, have today obtained the National Dance Awards, which are awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture and are endowed with 30,000 euros.

The jury has awarded the award to Ana Morales for "her ability to create different universes in each of the interpretations she tackles, in a tireless personal, risky and courageous search." The jury has also highlighted "the organic nature of her movement, trait that they highlight in works such as Without permission, Cuerda floja and Peculiar".

Andrés Marín has been recognized for "his ability to walk the line between tradition and the avant-garde, with a very personal choreographic language, which dialogues without a priori with other disciplines that he incorporates naturally". The jury has underlined "his great international projection, as well as the experimentation and risk that mark his creations such as Don Quixote, The Perfect Vigil, Ravel Ecstasy and the recent Yarin".

Ana Morales (Barcelona, ​​1982) is one of the leading representatives of the so-called "revolutionary" generation of flamenco artists. She began her dance studies at the Barcelona conservatory and at the age of 16 she moved to Seville with a scholarship for three years from the Andalusian Dance Company, where she continued her flamenco training. She takes classes with professors such as Rafael Campallo, Alejandro Granados, Juana Amaya, Eva Yerbabuena, Isabel Bayón and Andrés Marín, the winner this year in the Creation category.

Morales made his professional debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza, at the Bienal de Flamenco in 2000, in the show Puntales, under the direction of Antonio El Pipa. The following year, she joined the Andalusian Dance Company and her professional career as a solo dancer was also linked to the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, to companies such as Andrés Marín and Javier Latorre and to tablaos in Seville (Los Gallos, La Casa of Memory), Barcelona (El Cordobés) and Madrid (Casa Patas). As a creator, Ana Morales has signed seven shows and has collaborated as a dancer in film projects such as the film Iberia, by Carlos Saura.

For his part, Andrés Marín (Seville, 1969) is one of the most unique dancers and choreographers on the current flamenco scene and a renowned innovator of the genre. Son of bailaor Andrés Marín and cantaora Isabel Vargas, he has experienced flamenco since childhood. He begins to dance at his father's school and becomes fond of cante, of which he is a deep connoisseur. Of self-taught training, his trajectory is defined by his independence and the non-attachment to any company or school beyond his father's education.

He began his professional career in 1992 as a soloist and choreographer for different shows and events until founding his own company in 2002. He has signed more than a dozen shows with his company, among which are titles such as Beyond Time (2002) , Asymmetries (2004), The dawn of the last day (2006), Vanguardia Jonda (2006), The sky of your mouth (2008), The passion depending on how you look at it (2010), Op.24 (2011), Marrow (2012) , Ad Libitum (2014), Yatra (2015), Carta Blanca (2015), D. Quixote (2017), The Perfect Vigil (2020) and Ravel Ecstasy (2021).

Marín has collaborated with artists from various disciplines such as the director of the gypsy musical and equestrian theater in Paris, Bartabas; the hip-hop dancer and director of the National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle, Kader Attou and the Trio Arbós and the Ensemble Divana. The choreographer combines his artistic activity with the direction of Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, his own production office and dance studio.