DÍPTICO # 3 belongs to a numbered series of programmes designed from short and medium-length choreographies where the dancers themselves help each other with voice, with lighting, with their bodies, their presence and small instruments. DÍPTICO # 3 includes the choreographies LANDSCAPE and SILENCIOS, an experimental and synesthetic duality on flamenco dancing, zapateado, percussion, dance, randomness and silence.
Estévez / Paños y Compañía: artistic duo Rafael Estévez and Valeriano Paños have, since 2003, choreographed and directed artists such as Lola Greco, María Vivó, Miguel Poveda, Rocío Molina, Olga Pericet, Manuel Liñán, Marco Flores, Rubén Olmo, Lucía “la Piñona”, Alfonso Losa, Concha Jareño, Ana Morales, Patricia Guerrero and Compañía Antonio Ruz. They choreographed for and danced in the Gala de la Danza at Madrid’s Teatro Real (2004), the Gala Española de Danza EXPO AICHI (2005) and the Gala de la Danza EXPO Zaragoza (2008). They are directors of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and collaborators with directors such as Carlos Saura, Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola and Álvaro Morte. They choreographed the Teatro Real production of La vida breve / Tejas verdes. They have shared a stage with Mats Ek, Ana Laguna, Israel Galván, Carmen Linares, Tamara Rojo, Fernando Terremoto, José Martínez, Ángel Corella, Nacho Duato and Eva Yerbabuena. They have been awarded the National Prize for Dance 2019 in the creation category “for their work in opening up new languages and for their research into Spanish, flamenco and contemporary dance, from the traditional to the avant-garde, achieving original results in a dance for today”. Estévez / Paños y compañía have premiered shows such as Muñecas, Flamenco XXI: ópera, café y puro (shortlisted for the New productions award at the Málaga II Bienal) and which received the Emerging Artist award at the Festival de Jerez; Sonata, Romances, La Consagración (Giraldillo Prize for best choreography at the Sevilla XVII Flamenco Bienal), Bailables, El sombrero and La Confluencia as resident company at the Centro Coreográfico Canal of Madrid’s Teatros del Canal. They also created Retablo experimental sobre el baile flamenco and the pieces Campanillero, Nondedéu and Landscape that, together with Silencios, form part of the Dípticos y Trípticos programme. Their repertory also includes Conferencia bailada [Los bailes flamencos en los años de la creación del ballet Le Tricorne] and performative lectures Estampío [ortodoxia pura] and Rusos y flamencos [baile flamenco: de la Rusia de los Zares a los Ballets Rusos de Diaghilev].
