The Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center will host this Thursday the show ‘De voz, un cuerpo’ by the Jerez dancer Leonor Leal.

The performance is part of the cultural cycle organized on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’.

It will take place at 9 p.m. with free admission, prior collection of invitations at the box office of the exhibition hall.

Estepona City Council informs that the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center will host this coming Thursday August 22, at 21.00 pm, the dance show ‘De voz, un cuerpo’ by the dancer Leonor Leal from Jerez. This is a conference danced, a performance based on dialogue with retired dancers.

Based on interviews with more than ten dancers of the stature of Merche Esmeralda, Blanca del Rey or Carmela Greco, among many others known or forgotten, the artist brings to the stage what has caught her attention of what they have told her. The purpose of this piece as a show is a language where dance, text and image are at the same level and where everything is important.

Admission to the show will be free, after collecting invitations at the box office of the exhibition hall from today Monday.

With this performance continues the cultural cycle of concerts, conferences and shows, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, whose inauguration took place on July 19 at the Mirador del Carmen Exhibition Center. The series began on August 4 with a concert by Emil Saiz, and will end on Friday, September 7 with the sung conference ‘La mujer y la copla’, by singer Martirio.

Leonor Leal (Jerez de la Frontera, 1980). Singular dancer with a solid training in Classical and Spanish Dance, she found in Flamenco the right vehicle to develop her talent. Her versatility allows her to adapt to very diverse contexts and face challenges that open doors for her to continue growing as an artist.

He began his career as a member of important flamenco companies such as those of Antonio ‘El Pipa’, Andrés Marín, Javier Barón and the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía directed by Cristina Hoyos. In 2008, he presented his first show ‘Leoleolé’ which was followed by others of different formats, ‘eLe eLe’ (2011), ‘Mosaicos’ (2012), ‘La mujer habitada’ (2012), ‘El Verbo en tu boca’ (2014), ‘Naranja amarga’ (2013), ‘Frágil’ (2015), ‘J.R.T. pintor y flamenco’ (2016), ‘Nocturno’ (2018), or ‘En talleres’ (2019). ‘J.R.T.’ was a fundamental piece in Leonor’s trajectory. There she started, under the artistic direction of the multifaceted Pedro G. Romero, the path with Alfredo Lagos and Antonio Moreno and met Monica Valenciano and Maria Muñoz, the founder of Mal Pelo, she (says Leonor) “helped us to understand the concept of space and how it begins where you want to open it”.

Since then they spent two fruitful years working on concepts with residencies in Linz (Austria), at the Centre de Creació ‘L’Animal a l’Esquena’ in Celrá (Girona), in Toulouse (France), or in Dusseldorf (Germany), an accumulation of experiences that led them to ‘Nocturno’, which beyond a show is above all a work of scenic research.

The next derivative of this creative process is ‘En talleres’ (initially called ‘Se Prohibe el Cante’), a project premiered in early 2019, a duet with Antonio Moreno, percussionist and performer in which one can clearly appreciate what they call ‘”compás interno”.

And the most recent, and more ambitious at the scenographic and musical level, is ‘LOXA, estampas y bailes a partir de los experimentos radiofónicos de Juan de Loxa’, presented at the XXI Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2020.

Her career as a soloist is supported by several awards such as ‘Outstanding Dancer’ of the Choreographic contest of Spanish Dance and Flamenco of Madrid 2008, and the award for ‘Best New Artist’ of the Festival de Jerez 2011. Specifically for ‘Nocturno’ she received the ‘Special Mention of the Jury’ of the Festival de Teatro en el Sur 2019, the ‘Best Dance Show Award’ at the Escenarios de Sevilla Awards 2019, or the Nominations for Best Female Dance Performer and Best Dance Show of the XXIII Max Awards of the Performing Arts 2020.

She shows her pieces in many of the main European and American flamenco shows such as the Biennials of Seville and Holland or the festivals of Jerez, Dusseldorf, Esch-Luxembourg, Nîmes, Mont de Marsan, Toulouse, London and New York.

De voz, un cuerpo’ is her latest work.

Exhibition ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’.

On the other hand, it should be noted that the exhibition ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, organized by the City Council and the Zuloaga Foundation, will remain open to the public at the Mirador del Carmen, until September 29, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00 to 14.00 hours and from 16.00 to 20.00 hours. Those registered in Estepona can visit it free of charge.

The exhibition, made up of 120 works from the collection of the Spanish painter’s family, offers for the first time a social and iconographic history of European women from the Middle Ages to the present day. Seven centuries of a surprising story of progress and setbacks that will help to understand the reality of women today.