equinox 6
March 2019 with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Ben Zviel
We are very happy to announce the sixth equinox exhibition and dinner at mimi. This time Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola will perform a duet dance with Martí Corbera. While Ben Zviel from one of the most creative restaurant in Berlin “Mrs Robinson's” will present a special course dinner for this occasion.
The Equinox is when the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun. This occurs twice each year, in spring and in autumn. The Japanese celebrate the equinox with a ceremony called Higan, meaning the “Other Shore” or Nirvana / Enlightenment. The time of transition between seasons is believed to bring the world of the living and the dead closer together. Japanese eat special foods during this ceremony to differentiate it from daily life and appreciate it as a sacred moment.
Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
Born in Legazpi (Spain), after completing his musical studies at the Concservatorio Superior de Música de San Sebastián, hecompletes his Early Music degree as a countertenor at the Akademie voor Oude Muziekin Amsterdam. The encounter with the choreographer Marcelo Evelin in Amsterdam, and the tight artistic collaboration it would develop from there, decide him to further explore the potential of the body as a total instrument and tool of expression. After working with, amongst others, P.C. Scholten, Emio Greco, and Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre), he meets Sasha Waltz in 1996, who invites him to take part of the core ensemble. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer, he has been responsible of the musical direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. His own work, as a choreographer and director, shows his interest in bringing his musical and dance backgrounds together, relentlessly exploring the relationship between both disciplines, and questioning the role and integration of music into the theatrical / performing event. Strong believer and advocate of genuine artistic collaborations, he develops his projects around these. He invites his close artistic partner Luc Dunberry (with whom he shares an important body of work), and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet to co-sign the direction of his project d’avant. Additional collaborators include Joanna Dudley, the orchestra Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the baroque ensemble Les Monts du Reuil, Stephanie Thiersch, Estévez y Paños Compañía, The Geneva Camerata, etc. His most recent work includes Romances, a commission by the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevillafor which he has been awarded with the Giraldillofor the best direction, the 18thcentury operas Le docteur Sangrado(Duny-Laruette),Le soldat magicien(Philidor) and Raoul Barbe-bleue(Grétry) Le jeune sage et le vieux fou(Grétry), Richard Cœur-de-lion(Grétry), as well as the new chamber opera Mr. Barbe bleue (Perrault-Robinson,all with Les Monts du Reuil for the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Opéra de Reims, and de temps en temps sinon jamaiswith ClémentineDeluy for the Foundation Pina Bausch. He teaches and gives workshops and master classes regularly all around the world.
