2007年10月6日 星期六

Artist - Ana Ramo


Born in France, of Spanish parents, Ana Ramo began studying classical dancing and music. She learnt music theory, piano and various different idioms of dance. Later, she discovered Flamenco, the perfect way to combine her love of music and her vocation as a dancer.
In 1991, she moved to Madrid where she studied Flamenco in the famous Flamenco school "Amor de Dios", with one of the best Flamenco teachers (Ciro, Merche Esmeralda, El Güito, Antonio Canales….) while also continuing with her training in Spanish classical dancing and re-discovering classical ballet in the classes of Nadine Boisaubert.
From 1994, she worked in several informal "Tablaos" in Madrid (Soniquete, Corral de la Moreria, etc) and set up a production with her group "Flamenco Improvisation" which she moved in various different flamenco places in Madrid and in France. During this period she also gave "sevillanas" and flamenco classes in Madrid (Mostoles, Papageno Cultural centre, Palladium gymnasium…)
Returning to France in 1999, Ana Ramo contributed, as a flamenco dancer to several projects set up by contemporary choreographers ("Parade de Nanterre" by Pierre Doussaint, "2000 and One Dances" at the CND). She also worked with Cécile Apsara, and set up productions with several flamenco groups in Paris, in the provinces (Chartres, Rheims…), and abroad (Spain, Morocco)
From June 2000, she was Artistic Director of SONIDOS NEGROS ("Black Sounds"). Till 2005, she work as a teacher in some of the best dance center in Paris: Studio Harmonic and Flamenco-en-France (the french association for flamenco in Paris). She was invited to make workshops in provinces too: Rheims, Metz and La Rochelle. At the same time, her first choregraphy "Nesba", in which she also danced, was shown in Paris and in Chartres, in several different theatres and cultural centres (Café de la Danse, Théâtre de Chartres, Centre Culturel St Gratien) to considerable critical acclaim. Young Flamenco artists - including Manuel Reyes and José Barrios - were invited to participate in the show. Her second piece, "DOS" was shown for six weeks in the Paris theatre "Les Déchargeurs". Her las work, "Los cinco sentidos" (The Five Senses) was shown at the Théâtre de L'Oulle during the Alternative Avignon Festival in 2005. For this show, the company invited the young dancer Carlos Carbonell to participate.
From 2005 to now, Ana Ramo, lives between Paris and Madrid, emphasizing her teaching activities by organizing workshops in Paris, and classes in Madrid.

2007年10月2日 星期二

2007年9月25日 星期二

Singapore-Sevilla


María Pages的舞圑大概是早期來台灣開疆闢土的專業圑體之一,記得前幾年的全盛時期,曾經一年之中來了幾圑重量級的職業圑體,曾讓台灣的觀眾們應接不暇。近期來這些大型的圑體的巡迴腳步漸漸地往中國大陸、香港、新加坡等地移動而獨漏台灣。不知是台灣的觀眾對flamenco已失去新鮮感或是圑體經費太高的因素,台灣的觀眾們因而失去許多目睹這些大型的作品的機會。

今年María Pages推出新作Sevilla,一個以她的家鄉Sevilla為背景的作品。在這部作品裡María Pages仍延續著她獨有的呈現方式,有近二十位以上優秀的樂手及舞者將同時出現在舞台上,更有創新的舞台及服裝設計,同時在這部作品裡她將大膽採用Tomás Pavón(1893-1952)的演唱作品(註: Tomás Pavón被視為flamenco裡的傳奇人物之一,甚至曾被賦予史上最優秀的演唱家的稱號)。
Sevilla這部作品其實已推出好一段時間,可惜台灣觀眾至今仍無緣觀賞它。它曾於今年二月於香港演出,María Pages更將於今年十月中帶著這部作品至新加坡巡演,有興趣的朋友或許可以考慮飛一趟新加坡一睹大師風采。(照片來源flamenco-world網站)