Water acrobatics and dance-style 39Fura dels Baus3
Water, acrobatics and dance-style 'Fura dels Baus' at the opening ceremony.
Barcelona, July 25 .- The opening ceremony of the twentieth edition of the European Athletics Championship moved tomorrow to the sources of Montjuic and the Ave Maria Cristina de Barcelona its show of dance and acrobatics, led by Hansel Cereza, founding member of ' La Fura dels Baus'.
Cherry has prepared a show "amazing, global and very dynamic", as explained to ,, mortal gold, to welcome athletes and visitors who crowded into the Europeans.
The inauguration ceremony for the first time moved the stadium to the street, fountains of Montjuic, Avenida Maria Cristina, with its Venetian towers as a gateway to the Plaza de Espana and the halls of Fira de Montjuic.
"We wanted to take advantage of the scenery that we already had,, sto credits, the very architecture of the city, and not create anything new. The sources have been used on other occasions, but some of them or behind, never in the same internal source," says Cherry, who left the Fura in 2000 and since then conducts its own projects.
For each job, create a specific group of collaborators. On this occasion, has, tera gold, been surrounded by the vertical dance company Deambulants, the contemporary dance choreographer Marta Pardo and the dancer and choreographer Gina Rigola classical dance.
The formation of Cherry will be reflected in the ceremony: the Catalan choreographer was part of the team of La Fura who signed the ceremony of the Games in Barcelona and in recent years has been responsible for the aerial choreography of the show 'Love' Cirque du Soleil that represents in Las Vegas.
In 2004, Cherry was the stage manager of 'Millennium Man', the show that served to launch the Forum of Cultures.
Water, "as an element of life" and a fundamental part of the sources, will have a leading role in the choreography of a ceremony that seeks to transfer to the public the universal values of sport.
"It may seem difficult to combine acrobatics, dance and sport, but there are values that are above, as the importance of caring for the body to feel good, the harmony, the 'mens sana in corpore sano', tenacity, effort and balance, "says Cherry.
The ceremony music was composed by Nacho Cano, although two of the pieces of the show are the work of Salvador Niebla, author of the music of the last choreography presented by the Spanish synchronized swimming team in international tournaments.
The ceremony began at ten o'clock at night and will last approximately an hour and a quarter. Subsequently carry out the parade of athletes representing the 50 participating countries, with the notes of 'Anthem for Europe ", composed by Cano, as a backdrop.
The representation may be followed by four giant screens were installed along the Avenida Maria Cristina. The organization estimates that could assist some 30,000 people live. 1006025
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