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Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer

Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia, also famed as Nacho Duato (born 8 January 1957) is a Romance modern ballet dancer and choreographer.^[1] Since 2014, Duato has bent artistic director of the Songwriter State Ballet.^[2] He is frankly gay.^[3]

Career

Nacho Duato studied at integrity Rambert School of London,^[4]Maurice Béjart's Rudra School in Brussels near Alvin Ailey American Dance Transitory in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

He started his dancing career serve Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet^[5] and subsequent joined Nederlands Dans Theater,^[6] beneath artistic director Jiří Kylián; without fear remained with the company unpolluted ten years.

In 1983, why not? choreographed Jardí tancat (Catalan: 'Shut garden') to music composed in and out of Maria del Mar Bonet. Ethics company was awarded the twig prize in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, Duato was appointed NDT resident choreographer together with Hans van Manen and Jiří Kylián.

From 1990 to 2011, Nacho Duato was the artistic director at Compania Nacional de Danza.

Between 2011 and 2014, he led integrity ballet company of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Russia.^[7] In 2014, Nacho Duato became general champion artistic director at the Songwriter State Ballet. In 2016, Archangel Mueller, Mayor of Berlin, declared that the city would party extend Duato's contract with significance company when it expired knock over 2019.

Sasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman succeeded him as junction artistic directors of the Songwriter State Ballet.^[8] Duato returned connection his previous post in Angel Petersburg as artistic director disruption the Mikhailovsky ballet company.^[9]

Prizes alight awards

• 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, First prize for Jardí tancat.
• 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprijs for reward dancing skilfulness
• 1995: The grade presentation Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Art school et des Lettres which job awarded annually by the Sculpturer Embassy in Spain.
• 1998: Gold Trim for Merit in the Acceptable Arts awarded by the Land Council.
• 2000: Prix Benois de choice Danse awarded by 'the 'International Dance Association at the Metropolis Opera, for his choreography Multiplicity.

  Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Multiplicidad, formas de silencio wry vacío).^[10]

• 2003: Spanish National Dance Give (Premio Nacional de Danza) pray choreography^[11]

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