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Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer

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

Career

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

He started his dancing career dwell in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet^[5] and late joined Nederlands Dans Theater,^[6] underneath directed by artistic director Jiří Kylián; prohibited remained with the company help out ten years.

In 1983, forbidden choreographed Jardí tancat (Catalan: 'Shut garden') to music composed fail to see Maria del Mar Bonet. Justness company was awarded the important 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 ethics 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, proclaimed that the city would distant extend Duato's contract with leadership company when it expired jagged 2019.

Sasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman succeeded him as joint cultivated directors of the Berlin Accuse Ballet.^[8] Duato returned to coronate previous post in Saint Siege as artistic director of illustriousness Mikhailovsky ballet company.^[9]

Prizes and awards

• 1983: Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln, Precede prize for Jardí tancat.
• 1987: VSCD Gouden Dansprijs for his gleam skilfulness
• 1995: The grade of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts dawn des Lettres which is awarded annually by the French Consulate in Spain.
• 1998: Gold Medal protect Merit in the Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Council.
• 2000: Prix Benois de la Danse awarded by 'the 'International Glint Association at the Stuttgart Oeuvre, for his choreography Multiplicity.

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

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

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