Biography Antonio Hades

He was born in the city of he became one of the greatest figures in Spanish dances and flamenco. From early childhood, Hades lived in Madrid. He worked in different places and combined his work with his love for Corrida until he began to dance with La Palitos La Palitos. She took him to her group when he was 16 years old, and gave him this stage name.

By the age of 16, this young man already had experience: life forced him to leave school at eleven and very early to grow up. He was an assistant to the photographer, a student of Toreador, a boy in the escape, a reporter in one of the newspapers ... He came to the Pilar Lopez group as another supplier in the dance, and left the first dancer. More than once, Hades noted that Pilar is very grateful for the fact that she taught him primarily the ethics of dance, and then aesthetics.

She, in turn, spoke like this about her student: “Very sensitive, educated, restless. Very troubled.

Sometimes even too much, but sometimes it played on him. But he is always in the search, he is looking for, looking. He almost left behind the concept of the fact that he is a dancer, to understand and feel that he is an artist. ” In the year, Antonio Hades organized his own troupe and made his debut as an actor. In the middle of the Antonio Hades, he staged the play “Don Juan de Alfredo Manas”, which can be considered his first innovative work, in collaboration with young Jose Granero, who came to Spain a few years earlier.

Remembering that time, he told the author: “Antonio Hades is the one who revived the male dance, he changed the ideas about the dance as such. He brought a certain elusive stroke. Even while working on the production of Don Juan, something new began to break out, we began to work on this, invent new forms, find new currents. ” Starting from this time, we can talk about the most significant case of the dancer, which he continued, being already the head of his own troupes.

Antonio Hades also succeeded in the world of cinema. Antonio Hades was the director of the National Ballet of Spain, Kabalro Bonald, speaks of the personality and this work of Hades: “His dance hides the whole depth of the folk custom. It does not have a single movement, a gesture that would not correspond to the venerable expression of the whole human. I am sure that Hades simply reproduces the material that has gone through generations, but at the same time he is the main hero of the story, firmly connected with his life.

The dancer in this way expresses everything passionate that is in himself. When he dances, he seems to explain something to himself, against the background of movements he tells and considers the inexhaustible list of ideas that arise in him. Each dance created or set up again by Antonio Hadesh suggests, along with a magnificent choreographic production, other achievements aimed at the revival of this national ballet.

Having abandoned the theatrical high -part and artificial jewelry, Hades managed to master some basic principles, which helped him go to his goal. I do not know a single Spanish dancer who would have been able, from the point of view of values, to combine all the Spanish artistic heritage with the most universal concept of aesthetics of dance. Even choreographic formulations indicate complete release from dogma.

In the stylistic power of the Hades dance, the soul of Andalusia beats, but also the legacy of the European ballet. Perhaps the most important artistic merit of Antonio Hades was that he managed to introduce a tragic frantic of flamenco into the expressive grace of academic and school dance. The sophistication of gestures, the presence of classic hands here are united with an open frenzy of the Gypsy-Andalusian dance.

In this role, classical and folk elements in the dance are an unchanged example of who, being the most exemplary of our dancers, can be rightly called the "most Spanish" of our Baylaors. " In the year in Genoa, he presented his last production of Fuenteovejuna. Antonio Hades is one of the title dancers of Spain. He received recognition and important awards, such as the National Dance Award for "his contribution to the establishment of a connection between the tradition of flamenco and the trends of modernity, in the Spanish dance." Antonio Hades died of cancer in Madrid on July 20.

He was a great artist, unique, with unsurpassed devotion to dance. "