Instituto Cervantes (New York, NY)
Compañía Manuel Liñan
Manuel Liñán | MEET THE ARTIST
- Wednesday 20 April 2022
- 19:00 h
- Instituto Cervantes (New York, NY)
Breaking the Closet: A conversation between Mateo Sancho & Manuel Liñán.
Manuel Liñán, dancer and choreographer in conversation with author Mateo Sancho.
On the occasion of the presentation of the show ¡VIVA! at New York City Center we will have the opportunity to talk with Manuel Liñán, one of the leading innovators in the language of flamenco today.
Winner of the 2017 National Dance Award, Manuel Liñán was born in Granada and studied with the legendary Manolete and Mario Maya. Manuel not only shines as a dancer but also as a choreographer and director. He has been invited on numerous occasions to choreograph shows for companies such as the National Ballet of Spain, Rafaela Carrasco, Teresa Nieto and the New Spanish Ballet.
Mateo Sancho (Zaragoza, 1983) is a writer, journalist and sociologist. After working as a film journalist for six years in Madrid, he moved to New York, where he worked as a correspondent for the EFE News Agency between 2013 and 2015. His career, with curiosity and affection as guiding threads, combines the essay La revolución asexual (2012) –shortlisted for the Anagrama Award–, the culinary space Cocina con Mateo (2016-2018) and the play Anticlimax (premiered in Manhattan in 2018). He currently works as a professor of Sociology and Film at New York University and Pratt Institute, and he is finishing his doctoral thesis on homosexuality and aging.
In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes New York and part of the World Flamenco Congress.
Free admission.