Compañía Nacional de Danza

Rehearsals to prepare for the premiere of the play Echoes from a Restless Soul of the NumEros program, with which we will visit some of the most important stages in our country next season, have begun with its creator, Jacopo Godani, accompanied by assistants Vicenzo de Rosa and Zoe Lenzi. The choreography has been created by Godani, a former prominent solo dancer of the Frankfurt Ballet and former director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, which premiered the piece in 2016. It is a composition based on Gaspard de la Nuit for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, which poses great technical demands, where the mathematical precision of the gesture coexists with a bodily energy of visceral, almost animal intensity. With these rehearsal sessions with the master Godani, we conclude the list of guest masters who have accompanied us this season.

The former dancer of the CND and stager of William Forsythe since 2022, José Carlos Blanco, has returned to the company's headquarters for the staging of Playlist (Track 1, 2), an innovative and highly demanding work at a technical level for the twelve male performers for whom it is conceived. The premiere of this work, based on the idea of a "playlist" with music by Peven Everett (Surely Shorty) and Lion Babe (Impossible, Jax Jones remix) is scheduled for December at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, as part of the NumEros program, alongside Serenade by George Balanchine and Echoes from a Restless Soul by Jacopo Godani. With José Carlos Blanco, the dancers have worked thoroughly to achieve the versatility and technical range that this work requires, which fuses classical and contemporary dance and incorporates it into the CND's repertoire for the upcoming season.

The Fernando de Rojas Theatre of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid hosts on July 10 and 11 the presentation of the nine works emerging from the Creadores CND project, a creative collaboration project that returns to the CND under the direction of its current director, Muriel Romero, to provide a development space for the choreographic concerns of the company's artists.

The official teacher and repetiteur of the © George Balanchine Trust, Colleen Neary has worked with the cast of the CND during the central weeks of June to prepare for the return of Serenade, the famous choreography by the Russian-American creator and a prime example of his very personal style.

The Compañía Nacional de Danza joins the urgent call for climate action through culture by starring in the Madrid stop of The Herds (La Estampida) on Saturday, June 7th at 6:30 p.m., an ambitious artistic initiative by the English company The Walk Productions under the artistic direction of Amir Nizar. In this initiative, a herd of life-size wild animal puppets will travel 20,000 kilometers, from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Trondheim in Norway, to raise awareness about the effects of climate change. The Herds began on April 9th ​​in Kinshasa, and to date, the animals have traveled to Lagos, Dakar, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, and San Fernando in Cádiz, meeting with local musicians, artists, dancers, and climate activists. During their visit to Madrid on Saturday, June 7, the animal puppets escaping climate change will meet with the cast of the Compañía Nacional de Danza, with the musician of Neopercusión, giving rise to an artistic performance entitled A hunt in broad daylight. The performance will begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 7:15 p.m., according to the following itinerary: 6:30 p.m. Start after Nave 16 of Matadero, in Madrid Río 6:45 p.m. Veal Shed of the Casa de Reloj Cultural Center 7:00 p.m. Matadero Courtyard 7:15 p.m. End of the show

We are celebrating International Dance Day 2025 together with the Carlos III University of Madrid by offering a showcase of the Creadores: Universidad Carlos III/CND project on Wednesday, April 30th (7:00 PM) in the UC3M Auditorium in Leganés.

In the intense days of rehearsals with which we are preparing the return of Don Quixote to the Teatro Real stage, we have taken a break to carry out a photo session with a wonderful image and communication team that includes the photographer Laura San Segundo, Tres Tipos Graficos, a creative studio specialized in cultural projects and the photographer Alba Muriel, one of our regular collaborators. From this photo session we have made a selection from which the main image and the poster of the campaign have emerged, which we invite you to see in the gallery. The dancers Clara Maroto and Álvaro Madrigal who will play the roles of Mercedes and Camacho, in one of the five performances between February 27 and March 2 that the work of José Carlos Martínez will be on stage, are, on this occasion, the protagonists of the communication campaign promoted by Muriel Romero, our current artistic director. Mercedes is Quiteria's sister and Espada's beloved. Camacho is a rich farmer who wants to marry Quiteria, but whom she does not love. A story that shows the conflict between Basilio's true love for Quiteria and Camacho's material interest and that culminates with an ingenious plan by Basilio to win Quiteria's heart. We invite you to enjoy this ballet with live music by the Teatro Real Main Orchestra directed by Manuel Coves and discover the outcome of this plot. Don't miss out on your ticket!

We start the new year giving you our calendar so you can enjoy every day of CND. It is now available for download!

As part of the programming of the ballet La Sylphide that will be performed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela from December 12 to 22, the CND organizes together with the dance critic Roger Salas a conference entitled About the Sylphide on Monday December 9 at 19:30h in the Ambigú of the Teatro de la Zarzuela.

The Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) has been the first institution to join this CND project, which consists of the development of a series of choreographic creation workshops in which, for a week, different groups of dancers from the CND share their own creations with the university community through group dynamics and movement explorations. Two weeks later, dancers and university students begin to select materials to create their own dance piece that will be offered at the UC3M Auditorium. After the sample of the scenic work, the choreographic workshop concludes with a discussion in which the students participating in the project, the dancers and the university public talk and ask questions about the creative process, their concerns, what they experienced and felt and their way of understand dance after the experience. The first workshop began on Thursday, October 31 with the dancers Isaac Montllor and Nora Peinador accompanied by Ana Catalina Román and the second with the couple of CND dancers Cristina Casa and Ion Agirretxe started on Thursday, November 7. The CND at the University was born within the social project Somos CND, which has among its objectives to bring dance closer to different groups in society through training activities and artistic creation and research projects of an interdisciplinary nature. Any interested university can propose its collaborative project to the CND contacting with aida.perez@inaem.cultura.gob.es Video of the first workshop at the UC3M