Gran Bolero
 Concept and choreography: Jesús Rubio Gamo
Assistant choreographer: Alicia Cabrero
Assistant choreographer for Slovenia and Croatia: Clara Pampyn
Performed by: ZPA (Luna Lilek, Nika Lilek, Silvija Musić, Endi Schrötter, Linda Tarnovski, Karlo Topolovec) & EN-KNAP Group (Nuria Capella Florensa, Mattia Cason, Tina Habun, Davide Lafabiana, Tamás Tuza, Carolina Alessandra Valentini)
Music: José Pablo Polo, prema Boléru Mauricea Ravela / based on Maurice Ravel’s Boléro
Light design: Leon Curk, po originalnom nacrtu Davida Picaza / upon the original design by David Picazo
Costumes: Katarina Markov (Atelje d.o.o.)
Rehearsal directors: Petra Valentić, Ana Štefanec Knez, Luke Thomas Dunne
Photography & video (Španski borci): Andrej Lamut
Photography (ZKM): Jelena Janković
Graphic design: Neja Engelsberger
Production: Zagrebački plesni ansambl / Zagreb Dance Company & Zavod EN-KNAP / EN-KNAP Productions
Supported by: City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Ljubljana - Department for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
GRAN BOLERO, created by the Spanish artist Jesús Rubio Gama for the Zagreb Dance Company and the Slovenian EN-KNAP group, and premiered in April 2023 in Zagreb Youth Theatre, is an adaptation and an upgrade of the show which was originally created for twelve Spanish dancers and has won the hearts of the critics and numerous awards, including the Spanish national award for performing arts - MAX. This time, six dancers from Zagreb and six from Ljubljana dedicate themselves to a joint dance and return to Ravel's all-time score.
My work combines mathematical structures with sensorial intensity. I like to compose formal architectures of the body that allow emotion to burst. I love to explore small variations and details inside repetition, to look at the rhythmic possibilities of simple actions.
Jesús Rubio Gamo
Jesús Rubio Gamo (1982) is an independent dancer and choreographer, based in Madrid. After studying ballet, contemporary dance, theatre and literature, Jesús got the MAE-AECI grant to continue his dance studies in a foreign country. He moved to London where he completed an MA in choreography at London Contemporary Dance School (Distinction). His work has been presented at festivals such as Chantiers d’Europe (Théâtre de la Ville-Paris), Dancenet Sweden, The Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (London), FAEL (Lima), Les Plateaux (La Briquetterie-Paris), Birmingham International Dance Festival, ARC for Dance (Athens), International Theatre Amsterdam and Hay Festival. Two years in a row (2017 and 2018), Jesús was selected by the platform Aerowaves as one of the most relevant 20 young choreographers in Europe. In 2020, Spanish National Radio awarded him the OJO CRÍTICO Prize for dance.
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