VIII International Competition of Dance Roseta Mauri 2017

Jury

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  José Carlos Martínez
  President of the jury 2017

  Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain)
  Commandeur de l’Orde des Arts et des Lettres (France)
  National Dance Prize 1999 (Spain)

  Since September 2011, José Carlos Martínez has been the Artistic Director of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza of Spain. He began his ballet studies in Cartagena, under Pilar Molina, continuing in 1984 at the Centre de Danse International Rosella Hightower in Cannes. In 1987, he won the Lausanne Prize and joined the Paris Opera Ballet School. In 1988, he was personally selected by Rudolf Nureyev to join the Ballet Company of the Paris Opera as a corps de ballet dancer. In 1992, he was promoted to Principal Dancer and won the Gold Medal in the International Competition of Varna. On 27th May 1997, he was appointed “Étoile” of Paris Opera Ballet, the highest rank a dancer can achieve.

  During his career José Carlos Martínez was awarded numerous prizes, including: the Prix de l ‘AROP, the Prix Carpeaux, the Premio Danza & Danza, the Prix Léonide Massine-Positano, the Spanish National Dance Prize, the Gold Medal of the City of Cartagena, the Prize Elegance et Talent France/Chine; Scenic Arts Prize for the best dancer (Valencia), Benois de la Danse for his choreography Les Enfants du Paradis and the Premio Dansa Valencia. He is Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).

  José Carlos Martínez’s repertoire as a dancer is characterized by his famous choreographies of classical and neo-classical ballet. Apart from that he has worked with most of the important choreographers of the 20th Century such as Maurice Bejart, Pina Bausch, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, some of whom created pieces specially for him.
  On invitation, he has also featured as guest performer with many of the world’s most prestigious ballet companies.

  As a choreographer, José Carlos Martínez has created pieces for several companie. For students of the Paris Opera Ballet School he composed Mi Favorita (2002), Delibes-Suite (2003) and Scaramouche (2005). For the Paris Opera Ballet he created Paréntesis 1 (2005), Soli-Ter (2006), El Olor de la Ausencia (2007) and Les Enfants du Paradis. For the Shanghai Ballet he created Ouverture en Deux mouvements and Scarlatti pas de deux (2009), Marco Polo and the Last Mission (2010). For Compañía Nacional de Danza de España he has created Sonatas(2012), Raymonda Variations, Giselle pas de deux (2013) and Don Quixotte Suite (2015).  He also created Resonance (2014) for the Boston Ballet. He is also choreograpged CND’s first full-length classical ballet for 20 years: his own version of Don Quixote, which was premiered at Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid, on December 16th 2015.

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  Henning Albrechtsen
  Classical dance teacher

  Henning Albrechtsen joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 1985, where he danced a variety of soloist and principal parts of classical and neo-classical repertoire – from Bournonville to Balanchine. Since 1997 he has been a teacher at Royal Danish Ballet School. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy artistic director of RDB, a position he held until 2007. That same year he enrolled at the Teachers Training Programme for former professional dancers at National Ballet School of Canada and completed the one year educational programme and was invited back to the Royal Danish Ballet school as a full time teacher in 2008. Henning Albrechtsen has taught at various schools around the world among others at the National Ballet School of Cuba, National Ballet School of Canada. Furthermore, he has taught the Bournonville style in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Norway and Spain.nonville en Australia, Japón, Méjico, Suecia, Noruega o España.

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  Allison Brown
  Contemporary repertory instructor

  Allison Brown is a Canadian choreographer, teacher and performer based in Frankfurt, Germany. She began choreographing in 1998 creating works for Ballett Frankfurt, Pretty Ugly/Ballett Freiburg, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt),Transitions Dance Company Laban (London), Gärtnerplatztheater (Munich), and the Academy for Musik and Performing Arts (Frankfurt). Allison has been teaching and leading workshops worldwide since 1999. As an instructor on Forsythe’s Improvisa- tion Technologies, she was part of the dance program P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. Ms. Brown has participated in numerous symposia, such as the „explorationen 07“ at PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. Since 2009 she has been on faculty at the Academy for Musik and Performing Arts in Frankfurt teaching Ballet Class, Classical Variations and Point Classes.

  As a performer Ms. Brown danced works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and numerous other choreographers during her time in the New York City Ballet from 1986 to 1991. In the following years from 1991 to 1996 Ms. Brown’s performing ca- reer became more diversified while dancing with Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company and Saburo Teshigawara’s Karas Company. From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt where she danced soloist rolesin, Artifact, Herman Schmerman, Duo and Ricercar to name a few.

  Upon the invitation of William Forsythe she started staging his works such as Duo and Workwithinwork on various occasions for dance companies worldwide since 1999. Since 2009 she has worked with children and teenagers within the program of the Altana Kultur Stiftung and Tanzlabor_21 Frankfurt. In 2015 she offered dance lessons for Refugee Children at the First Admissions Station in Frankfurt.

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  Karine Seneca
  Classical dance teacher and choreography assistant

  Born in Cannes, Karine Seneca studied at Centre de la Danse Rosella Hightower, in 1989 she graduated and received the first prize of the dance of the conservatoire. That same year she joined the corps de ballet of the Basler Ballet (Switzerland), under the direction of Heinz Spoerli. Two years later she followed Spoerli to Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf (Germany), which she entered as a soloist. In 1996 Heinz Spoerli was appointed to direct Ballet de Zurich (Switzerland) and invited Karine to join the company as a principal dancer. Throughout eight years she worked with great choreographers such as William Forsythe, Jirí Kylián, Hans Van Manen, Nils Christie, Twyla Tharp or Mauro Bigonzetti.

  In 2004 Karine decided to move to USA to face new challenges, and she joined the Boston Ballet, directed by Mikko Nissinen, as a principal dancer. In this company she performed the leading roles in titles such as Swan Lake, Carmen, Romeo and Juliet or The Nutcracker, and she worked with contemporary choreographers like Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo or Mark Morris. In 2008, Karine moved back to Europe to dance as a principal with the Staatsoper Hannover (Germany), directed by Jorg Mannes, who created several roles on her in ballets like Dangerous Liasons or Madame Bovary. Mannes gived her the oportunity to assist the rehearsals and to direct the young soloists coaching.

  Troughout her career Karine has participated in several world tours and in numerous galas and she has been invited to dance as a guest artist with several prestigious international companies. Besides, Karine has performed the lead roles of key choreographers such as George Balanchine or John Cranko. Currently, she directs her on school in Cannes and teaches regularly in several conservatoires and companies, like Staatsoper Hannover, where she also collaborates as a assistant choreographer.

Teaching Staff

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  Arantxa Argüelles
  Ballet Teacher 2017

  Arantxa Argüelles made her debut at the age of 11 with her hometown’s company, Ballet Clásico of Zaragoza, and two years later she joined the Ballet Clásico Nacional de España. Throughout her carreer as a dancer, she has been a principal dancer at the Ballet Nacional of Spain, Berlin Opera’s Ballet and at the Royal Danish Ballet —in these two last companies under the direction of Peter Schaufuss—. In 1996, Argüelles toured with Moscow’s Stanislavsky Ballet with the La Sylphide production, performing as dancer for the last time in Madrid. Argüelles was a regular invited artist at the Festival de Ballet de La Habana (Cuba) and she has worked with renown ballet masters such as Maya Plisetskaya and danced with outstanding dancers like Julio Bocca, Charles Jude or Laurent Hilaire in international galas. In 1997, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Ballet de Zaragoza, a position she hold for two years. Currently, Arantxa Argüelles has her own studio in Zaragoza, where she teaches ballet and pilates, and she is also regularly invited to teach in several dance companies such the Ballet of La Scala of Milan.

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  Allison Brown
  Contemporary repertory instructor

  Allison Brown is a Canadian choreographer, teacher and performer based in Frankfurt, Germany. She began choreographing in 1998 creating works for Ballett Frankfurt, Pretty Ugly/Ballett Freiburg, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt),Transitions Dance Company Laban (London), Gärtnerplatztheater (Munich), and the Academy for Musik and Performing Arts (Frankfurt). Allison has been teaching and leading workshops worldwide since 1999. As an instructor on Forsythe’s Improvisa- tion Technologies, she was part of the dance program P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. Ms. Brown has participated in numerous symposia, such as the „explorationen 07“ at PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. Since 2009 she has been on faculty at the Academy for Musik and Performing Arts in Frankfurt teaching Ballet Class, Classical Variations and Point Classes.

  As a performer Ms. Brown danced works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and numerous other choreographers during her time in the New York City Ballet from 1986 to 1991. In the following years from 1991 to 1996 Ms. Brown’s performing ca- reer became more diversified while dancing with Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company and Saburo Teshigawara’s Karas Company. From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt where she danced soloist rolesin, Artifact, Herman Schmerman, Duo and Ricercar to name a few.

  Upon the invitation of William Forsythe she started staging his works such as Duo and Workwithinwork on various occasions for dance companies worldwide since 1999. Since 2009 she has worked with children and teenagers within the program of the Altana Kultur Stiftung and Tanzlabor_21 Frankfurt. In 2015 she offered dance lessons for Refugee Children at the First Admissions Station in Frankfurt.

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  Lluís Carmona
  Pianist
  As a pianist he has specialised in dance accompaniament and composition, working and collaborating with companies in such as Jeu Ballet du France, Última Vez (Belgium), Rosas (Belgium), and in companies based in New York like José Limón’s or Merce Cuningham Studio. He has accompanied renown ballet and dance masters and choreographers such as Maria de Ávila, Carmen Roche, Víctor Ullate, Carmina Ocaña, Anne Therese de Keersmaker, Susanne Linke, Dominique Mercy, Elizabeth Corbett, Guillermina Coll, Marta Munsó, among others.

Winners