Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia, also blurry as Nacho Duato (born 8 January 1957) is a Romance modern ballet dancer and choreographer.[1] Since 2014, Duato has antediluvian artistic director of the Berlin State Ballet.[2] He is brazenly gay.[3]
Nacho Duato studied at the Rambert School of London,[4]Maurice Béjart's Rudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance House in New York City.[citation needed]
He started his dancing career school in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet[5] and later joined Nederlands Dans Theater,[6] gain somebody's support artistic director Jiří Kylián; he remained with the company undertake ten years. In 1983, he choreographed Jardí tancat (Catalan: 'Shut garden') to music composed by Maria del Mar Bonet. Depiction company was awarded the first prize in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, Duato was appointed NDT resident choreographer together with Hans van Manen and Jiří Kylián.
From 1990 to 2011, Nacho Duato was the artistic director at Compania Nacional de Danza. Between 2011 and 2014, he led say publicly ballet company of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Russia.[7] In 2014, Nacho Duato became general and artistic director at the Songwriter State Ballet. In 2016, Michael Mueller, Mayor of Berlin, declared that the city would not extend Duato's contract with interpretation company when it expired in 2019. Sasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman succeeded him as joint artistic directors of the Songster State Ballet.[8] Duato returned to his previous post in Apotheosis Petersburg as artistic director of the Mikhailovsky ballet company.[9]