Dancer and Choreographer Iñaki Urlezaga

Iñaki Urlezaga
DANCER -Director –Choreographer
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Choreographer: Iñaki Urlezaga
Argentinian classical dancer. Choreographer and Director
First dancer of the Argentinian Theatre of La Plata (1991)
First dancer. of Colón Theatre de Buenos Aires (1993)
Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet of London (1995-2006)
Principal Guest Dancer of the Het National Ballet (2006)
Director - choreographer of Ballet Concert 10 years today
Director of the National Ballet
Awards received:
First special award in the Latin American competition of
Ballet (1990),
Silver medal at the International Ballet competition in Paris
(1992),
Medal and three special mentions at the International
Ballet competition of Moscow (1993), first prize in the arts and in the

Sciences of Coca-Cola (1994), best dancer of the year,
awarded by the critics of Mexico (1999)
Critic's Circle Dance Awards 2000 – Best Male Dancer of the
year
2000 (2001), Foundation Award Konex (2002),
María Ruanova ´s Award to the best Argentinian dancer (2003),
Critic „s circle Dance Awards 2004 - Best Male
Dancer of the year 2004 (2005), Les Etoiles de Ballet 2000,
Cannes (2006)
Positano Award 2006 price to Excellence, in Italy
During his carreer he has danced on some of the world´s
most important international stages and festivals
Covent Garden Royal Opera House, Het Muziektheater
Opera House, Metropolitan Opera House de New York,
Bolshoi Theatre de Moscú, Mariinski Theatre (ex Kirov) de
Lenningrado; Alla Scalla de Milan, Colón Theatre of Buenos
Aires; N.K Hall de Japón; World Ballet Festival of Tokio,
Japon; Lincoln Center Festival, Estados Unidos; The Ashton
Celebration, USA; Gala des Etoiles de Montreal, Canada;
Vail International Dance Festival, Colorado USA;
Internacional Ballet Stars of Ohio, USA, Festival Diaghilev,
Rusia, Gala Award Príncipe de Asturias, España; Gala the
Stars of Theatre Real de Madrid, España; Festival
Internationale Ballet of Cremona, Italia; Gala Tribute a
Rudolf Nureyev at Scalla di Milano, Italia; Galas de
stars of XXI century , Paris Francia; Festival International
of Ballet of Habana, Cuba; Festival International of
Ballet Edimburgo, Escocia ,an several others

In addition to his roles as Etoile international, in 2000 he
creates his Argentinian ballet company, “Ballet concert” with
which has been presented at renowned stages and
international festivals in Europe, America,
Asia, Oceania and Africa; some of them are Gerald Ford
Amphitheatre Denver, United States of America; Aronoff
Theatre - Cincinnatti, Ohio, United States; Tribeca
Performing Arts Center, United States; Kifisia Theatre,
Athens, Greece; Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus; Municipal
Theater of Larnaca, Cyprus; Municipal Theatre of Strovolos,
Cyprus; Theatre Vanemuine, Estonia; Cairo Opera House,
Egypt; Alexandria Opera House, Egypt; Damascus Opera
House, Syria; Ravenna Festival, Italy; Invito alla Danza
Festival, Rome, Italy; Theatre Comunale Francesco Cilea in
Reggio Calabria, Italy; Theatre Verdi in Terni, Italy; Theatre
Fraschini, Italy; Summer Opera Festival Of Castle Romeo-
Montecchio, Italy; Theatre Comunale Giuseppe Verdi –
Gorizia, Italy; – Mestre Toniolo Theatre, Italy; Theater
Morlacchi-Perugia, Italy; Academy Theatre Conegliano,
Italy; Theater Rossini-Civitanova Marche, Italy; Theater
Ente Fiera Vicenza Dance Festival, Theater Alfieri in Asti,
Italy; Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand; Grand
Theatre, Shanghai; International Festival of art, Shanghai;
Municipal Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand; Municipal
Theater of Dunedin, New Zealand; Festival Milenni at the
Theater Tivoli in Barcelona, Spain. Theater Arriaga of
Bilbao; Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona, Spain; Municipal
Theatre of Roquetas de Mar, Spain; Theatre of Madrid,
Spain; New theatre Apollo, Spain; Katara Drama Theatre,
Qatar; DUCTAC, Dubai, Korea Expo 2012; Theater Colón of
Buenos Aires, Argentina; Estadio Luna Park Buenos Aires;
Theater Solís of Montevideo, Uruguay; Theatre Colsubsidio
Bogota, Colombia; National Theatre of Guatemala; National
Theater of Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana; National
Theater in Managua,Nicaragua National Theatre of Panama, Panama;
Museum of the Nation in Lima, Peru; Festival Internacional
de Trujillo, Peru; National Theatre of Quito, Ecuador,
Auditorio Nacional, Mexico and so on.

HIS CAREER AS A CHOREOGRAPHER:
In2003 as well as continuing his career as Principal dancer
he began his carreer as choreographer creating ballets that
have received excellent praise of specialized press, and have been
performed at international festivals
“Sylvia”
“Floralis”
Music by L. Delibes,
Music by S. Prokofiev;
Chopin Tales Music by F. Chopin,
“Nutcracker”. Music
“La Traviata” Music
by Tchaicowsky,
by G. Verdi.
"Dios se lo pague""
His ballet had been performed at the Colon Theatre in
Buenos Aires,Argentina
Theatre Solís , Montevideo, Vail International Dance
Festival, and Gala the Etoiles of Montreal.

SYLVIA
link de los videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2ZnGtu85c

Chopin tales
Chopin tales are inspired in scenes of life and love
The romanticism inspired Chopin to materialize in
This musical creation the different aspect that love
has.“His music” Iñaki explains,“inspired me to attain
in this work choreographic movement that may
show the awakening of the first love,the pain of
frustration,the purity of real love,and the fire that
passion creates”

These four stories are the mirror of not only the
society of the days of the romanticism,but also of
present and future societies.
Chopin tales have choreography of Iñaki Urlezaga
This is a work of classic language ,in which scenes
of visual esthetic associated to the romanticism
within Féderic Chopin lived and developed his work,
but with a touch of freshness of garments, more
simple and lighter than those habitually used in
ballets of said period.
Dancer perform demanding Pas de Deux closery
related to the musical temperament that notoriously
marked the atmosphere of every one of the
recreated scenes :stories of encounters and
departures, love with a happy end and so ardent
passion that lover are consumed.
So were presented the different facets of one of the
universal themes by excellence.

The nutcracker
Choreography Presentation on scene
and General Direction
By Iñaki Urlezaga
link del video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bmx8W-yvrY

La Traviata
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Choreography, Presentation on scene and General
Direction
by Iñaki Urlezaga
This Opera was converted in a ballet in two acts
Complete ballet in two acts
This Opera was converted in a ballet in two acts by the
aforementioned talent Argentinean dancer that succeeds
all over the world
link del video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqro6UeftQ

THE PLOT
Act I
Scene I: THE FEAST AT VILETA‟S HOME
Violeta Valery, a famous courtesan, celebrates a great feast
in her mansion in Paris. One of the last guests to arrive is
Gaston, who comes accompanied by his friend Alfredo
Germont, who wanted to meet Violeta
After being introduced to Violeta, he was fascinated by her
beauty .He tells her his concern about her delicate health
condition and declares her his love.
At the first moment she rejects him, but anyway she leaves
Open a great possibility when she presents him a camellia
and asks him to returned when the flower is decayed
Them the guest are leaving the feast and Violeta analyzes
the possibility of a relation based on real love; and though
She needs to be free to live her way of life, that is, days
and night full of mundane pleasures, she bets herself for
her love for Alfredo
Scene 2 : AT A COUNTRY HOUSE
Alfredo and Violeta live their love n a country house outside
Paris. She has completely abandoned her former life style
Alfredo discovers that Violeta has sold all her belongings to
Faineance her life in the distant countryside and goes to
Paris to correct the situation

While Alfredo is out, his father arrives to the house to
demand Violeta, saying that the future of Alfredo and his
sister has been ruined because of such relationship
Violeta really worried, listens the injurious expressions of
Germont and decides to abandon her beloved one, sending
him a letter telling him that she wants to return to her old
licentious life.
When Alfredo reads the letter, he is really astonished.
ACTS II
SCENE I THE FEAST AT FLORA‟S HOME
To mitigate her sorrow, Violeta falls more deeply in a
libertine life, and accompanied by Barón Douphal she goes
to another mundane feast in the house of flora.
Alfredo arrives to the feast looking for revenge, and even
without understand the reasons for her behavior, when he
sees her accompanied, he humiliates her before all the
guests to the feast and treats her as prostitute, throwing
to her face a bunch of money for the serviced performed
when they lived together .
Violeta dismayed and falls down
Alfredo is challenged to a duel by Barón Duophal.
Violeta recovers herself and confesses her love for
Alfredo.
SCENE: II IN VIOLETA „S ROOM

Some months after the feast, Violeta lies on her bed
because of the ferocious advancement of her disease, and
reads a letter sent to her by Mr. Germont .
In said letter, he says that finally he told Alfredo all the
truth about the sacrifice of Violeta for him and his sisters.
Alfredo rushes to be at her bedside, finally realizing that
Violeta had sacrificed herself for him, he begs her forgive
him.
Then she dies in his arms.

lA TRAVIATA, PRAISED BY THE means
La Nacion said: “La Traviata” on toes, a real feat of
Urlezaga. He ran a great risks to make of Verdi‟s “La
Traviata” a dancing version .However, the dancer and
choreographer came out successful. Iñaki Urlezaga shows
excellence and talent at the service of his character.
“A soirée remarked by its highest quality” La Nacion, also
said about Urlezaga: La Traviata: Urlezaga and his double
success as a dancer and choreographer.La Traviata His
most transcendental work as choreographer…He
demonstrated to be a great interpreter for the role. An
impeccable performance as an actor and a dancer
“Ambito Financiero” Verdi danced from tip to tip”
“with a sumptuous in all regards show, Iñaki Urlezaga
materialized choreographically the famous opera .La
traviata the final scene in Violeta‟s bedroom is a loving
exteriorization that Urlezaga carries out magisterially.
“Clarin said : that great show desereved the highest
praises” .Urlezaga follows the plot of Dumas (son) and
Francesco Maria Piava, and has attained-thanks to his
talent and knowledge ,a great ballet show with a really
interesting choreography .The audience gave an ovation to
the choreographer and his cast.
A real artistic conception of iñaki Urlezaga, indeed.
He availed himself of cheerful moments of the work, with
vibrating gypsies and bullfighters dances performed by
soloists and dancer.
Revista Noticias

Dios se lo pague
A CLASSIC NATIONAL FILM LED TO THE BALLET
By Iñaki Urlezaga
Argument
Mario, a humble employee of a textile factory develops with
great effort, and pawning to do this every night of his life, the
project of a loom. It has the illusion of power patent as soon as
possible to obtain a higher income of money that allows him to
improve his quality of life. His wife, a poor and ignorant woman,
falls on the traps prepared by the boss of her husband, Mr.
Richardson, to steal him the plans of the loom and become
owner of the project. When Mario learns about the trap
prepared to him by his boss, he gets terribly enraged with his
own wife, and she unable to stand her blame, commits suicide.
So blinded by pain, swears to himself to take revenge and
materialize it.
This is how he poses as a charismatic beggard called Jucá, and
thanks to the alms given by rich men, who needed to purify
themselves, and his wide experience of life, he becomes as Mario
Alvarez, a rich man of high society. Being rich was not his purpose
link del video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPKvsWvOQs

if not take revenge of Sir Richardson, and so as begging day and
night, he can buy the stock of his former boss factory. Thanks to the
weaknesses of his useless son, who sold them on game nights?
In this new life he meets Nancy, a beautiful woman whom he
rescues from poverty. Without losing his objective for a moment,
Mario achieves to become the majority shareholder of the factory
recovering their dignity and feeling that his plan was realized. For a
moment, and focused to meet his goal, It seems Mario Alvarez
loses to Nancy; that ignoring the real story she plans to scape and
marry the son of Richardson.
Faces her with reality and she discovers how facts happened, that is
that, Juca and Mario are the same person, she decides to remain with
love
The choreographer takes the arguments of homonymous book by
Joracy Camargo. but in his narration emphasized how his creativity
grew up, when he saw the Argentinean film directed by Luis Cesar
Amadori. Being this latter what leads him to choreographic creation

The name of Iñaki is directly bound with the meaning of Word
Artist: Iñaki is synonymous of ductility, skill, scenic virtuosity, and charism.
He is the First Dancer of the Royal Ballet of London, and has his own Company:
Ballet Concert, that accompanies him perfectly, and with them he covers different
Styles of dance, such as: classic, contemporary and theatre –dance .At all moment, Iñak
and his ballet reflect force, precision and virtuosity.
Urlezaga has appeared successifully all over the world. He has danced in the World
Ballet Festival of Japan ,in the kirov Theatre of Saint Petersburg, the Bolshoi of
Moscow, and almost all the theatres of Latin America.
It was said about him:
“..between magnificent returns and right step, Iñaki Urlezaga ,the First Dancer of the
London Ballet, received standing ovations in the Dominican Republic where for the first
time, a group of young talents commanded by the Argentinean Iñaki Urlezaga,
enraptured the spectators at the National Theatre….”
“The Newspaper”” by Lucia Demichelis,
Santo Domingo ,Dominican Republic
February 2003.
“Ballet of the majestic and unique Iñaki during almost two hours he surprised the
public by the quality of the spectacle…of such majesty that all the assistants two Ruben
Dario National Thiatre joyfully enjoyed…”
“The Press ,by Leslie Ruiz Baldelomar
Managua Nicaragua February 2003
“…The Argentinian Machine …Iñaki Urlezaga, the First Dancer of the Royal Ballet,
received the most prolonged standing ovation and his technique and personal style of
combining the Russian and English styles kept dazzled to the audience ….
“24 Ore , By Marianella Guatterini ,Italy
December 2002

Url“ Iñaki Urlezaga ,powerful vigor and techinacal exxellence”
“Il Giorno”by Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino,Italy
December 2002
“Iñaki Urlezaga The “chosen one” a perfect combination of fierceness in the
technique ,acrobatic physicist and presence of prince…”
Iñaki Urlezaga glared to the audience at the Argentinean Theatre”.
“Due to his force and virtuous precision ,as well as to his technique and interpretative
quality ,Iñaki Urlezaga is considered by the critic like the new jewel of the world
dance”
“The Stampa” Sergio Trombetta Italy
December 2002
“ Iñaki Urlezaga ,Charming Prince”
Evening Standard” ,Debra Craine
England .1999
The experts in dance of America and Europe, do not have more words to praise for the
work of Iñaki .they consider him one of the best technically prepared dancers of the
present time and also with an almost hypnotic charism on the scene.
“Iñaki Urlezaga is the New Jewel of the dance world”
The New Herald “Erwin Perez Miami
September 1999
“Iñaki Urlezaga is a complete artist ,the power of his singles and codas ,the perfection in
the preparations and completions ;the excellence of his numerous turns and the line the
adheres spontaneously to the style tour him a prototype of the role. without
exhibitionisms, realness. .he is a fabulous partenaire. Iñaki has grown up at huge steps.

But as a star it is necessary to say that he is a great artist who undresses his interior with
a calm delivery
“The Nation “ Silvia Gsell.Argentina
September 1999
Thursday at night ,Iñaki Urlezaga dazzled to the audience of the theatre of the Liberator
In his role of Albrecht, His interpretation is so convincing that it fulfills one of the
functions of the art that Balanchine indicated: to show the glory that we can reach like
human being.
Urlezaga Knew that nobody on scene could surpass him .nevertheless, he did not use
this to “rob” the public. His interpretation and virtuosity were so magnificent that at
the end of show, all the public broke in tears.
In “the Voice of Interior”, Luisa Heredia ,from Cordoba quoted in September 2002
“I have seen a great artist to dance Don Quixote ,but I had not seen Iñaki Urlezaga .
I thought that neither Yoshida nor Urlezaga could surprise me, but I was wrong,
incredibly wrong….I think that both are very exciting”
"Ballet.co Postings Page Royal Opera House, Covent Garden",
Inglaterra.-
“Iñaki looks now much better than ever before.
I had never been a fan of him until now .What really surprised me was his quality as dancer
and the great technique he has.
I never before applauded when the dancers are performing a “pas de deux” but that
sequence of double tours in the air, and double pirouettes were simple perfect!!
The movement of his legs has notoriously grow up during these last years, with a real
sense of personal style and very good conclusions in all respects
Anneliese Handley
Royal Opera House Covent Garden .
“Guests of the royal ballet ,shine in the gala of Nureyev in Milan.”
“the pas de deux” of Don Quixote was danced by Urlezaga and Cojocaru with absolute
virtuosity.”
Ballet .co Posting Page
England

“Iñaki with his classical formation that acquires a greater relief with his armas of
plastic movements, can dance all possible styles
“News Magazine” Enrique Destaville.
Argentina ,Noviembre 2001
“The sea, the music and the stars The perfect conjunction for an unforgettable night
with Iñaki Urlezaga who dazzled to about 2500 people who vibrated with the show “
“The Nation Dario Palavecino
Argentina 2001
“Iñaki demonstrated again his conditions that consolidated him as one of highest
exponents of dance, internationally respected “
“Today “Argentina October 2002
“Iñaki Urlezaga,the revelation of actual masculine ballet ,of the Royal Ballet of
London, ,in the Covent Garden “
“Ballet 2000” magazine,
October 2002
“Great unfolding of dancing art”
“Iñaki Urlezaga ,from Argentina shook the spectators with his waste of art and
technique that molded in the “pas de deux” and in all the dance .He showed his great
style ,with endless and precise turns”
“Iñaki is one of the great ones. One of the best dancer in the world”
“International Ballet Festival of
La Habana ,Cuba Ada Oramas October 2002

“Iñaki and his ballet shone”
“For the first time, Iñaki Urlezaga , accustomed to greatest theatres of the world,
presented with his company ,The Concert Ballet at the Colon Theatre.
What is customary for him, was for his company a tremendous challenge to be
overcome.
These shows demonstrated that the Concet Ballet rigorously trained by Lílian Giovine
and Esmeralda Agoglia, is prepared to assume responsibilities.
“The Fight “: the personality that Urlezaga confers to Tancredo ,will remain as a
prototype.
His vehemence ,aspect and formidable technique make him ideal for the character.
Superb is the performance of all the Concet Ballet.
“Don Quijote “ the technical perfection make possible the realization of feats, and this
what was show by Urlezaga and his partenaire.
“The Nation” Silvia Gsell
Argentina September 2002
“Iñaki Urlezaga gave professorship”
“Last Thursday at night ,Iñaki Urlezaga dazzled the audience at the Libertador ‘s
Theatre , in his role of Albrecht

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