He was commissioned by Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, to create Dark Eye for the Deloitte Ignite Festival 2014 (The Royal Opera House). He created Memoriafor Carlos Acosta at the London Coliseum and was commissioned to create Derrumbe for Acosta’s Cubania evening at The Royal Opera House. Miguel has worked with other international choreographers including Mats Ek, Steve Paxton, Joaquin Sabaté, Jan Linkens, Georges Céspedes, Julio Cesar Iglesias, Samir Akika and Exedia Dance Company (Greece).Īs a choreographer, Miguel has created work for the National School of Ballet, Cuba, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and for the bands Simply Red and The Zutons. After six years with the Cuban National Contemporary Dance Company where he performed as a principal dancer, Altunaga moved to the UK and joined Rambert in 2007.Īt Rambert, Miguel has performed works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Wim Vandekeybus, Hofesh Shechter, Wayne McGregor, Gary Stewart, Merce Cunningham, Christopher Bruce, Itzik Galili , Siobhan Davies, Doug Varone, Barak Marshall, Lucinda Childs, Marion Motin, Alexander Whitley, Ben Duke, Shobana Jeyasingh, Malgorzata Dzierzon, Andonis Foniadakis, Mark Baldwin and Benoit Swan-Pouffer. Carlos’ film is in collaboration with Company Dancer Manon Adrianow.īorn in Havana, Cuba, Miguel trained at the National School of Art in Havana. He is a member of the International Dance Council (CID). Afterwards he worked as a freelance practitioner in Scotland where he worked with Janis Claxton.Ĭarlos joined Phoenix Dance Theatre in November 2016. During this time Carlos was offered several scholarships for companies in France and the USA. He went on to be a founder member of two projects, Ebony Dance Company and MalPaso Dance Company where he became Artistic Director, Choreographer and Principal Dancer collaborating with the Joyce Theatre in New York and National Ballet of Cuba.Īdditionally, Carlos was awarded a special nomination at the Iberamericano Ballet “Alicia Alonso” competition for his role in Anoxia by Osnel Delgado and became a finalist in the Gran Prix Vladimir Malakhov for his choreography Equilibrium. CUBANIA ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PROFESSIONALDuring this time Carlos began to teach professional dancers and to create his own work. After “Ballet de Camagüey” Carlos joined “Danza Contemporanea de Cuba” where he performed works by Sasha Waltz, Rafael Bonachela, Mats Ek and Itzik Galili amongst others, receiving the “Luna” award for his role in Carmina Burana at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. On joining “Ballet de Camagüey” in Cuba he danced soloist roles in Coppelia, Giselle, Flores en Genazo. The Choreographers Carlos J Martinezīorn in Cuba, Carlos graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Cuba in Havana taking part in various competitions and international dance festivals and working with many established choreographers and dancers including Fernando Alonso, Carlos Acosta, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. These exciting short dance films, each of them distinctly separate, are the fruits of this journey. Through the pressures of multiple lockdowns and the precarious circumstance of life under a pandemic, they were able to explore their own practice and unleash their creativity as choreographers and artists. Miguel Altunaga, Kennedy Mutanga Jr and Carlos Martinez worked with our company dancers. Phoenix is a company founded by three Black men, and this Digital Programme aimed to give a space and a platform to three Black choreographers, to nurture heir talent and vision, in line with the ethos out of which the company was born almost forty years ago. The brutal murder of George Floyd followed by the protests in 2020 affected all of us on a personal level. It continues to disproportionately affect Black and ethnic minority communities in the UK and across the globe. Our Digital Programme 2021 was produced as a creative response to the many difficulties the COVID-19 pandemic presented. Please watch this space for further announcements. We’re currently working on our Digital Programme 2022 choreographed by three Black female artists.
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