José Besprosvany
| José Besprosvany | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 13, 1959 Mexico |
| Occupation | dancer, choreographer, director |
| Years active | 1983 to present |
| Current group | Compagnie José Besprosvany |
| Website | www |
José Besprosvany ( October 13, 1959) is a dancer, choreographer, director and teacher, who has developed his career in Europe. He has been noted as one of Belgium’s contemporary dance innovators and reformers. He left Mexico as a teenager to study theater and dance in Paris and Brussels, after dancing and doing choreography with several companies, Besprosvany began his own in 1986, which has had at least one production each year since its inception. In the late1990s, Besprosvany revamped his choreography to the current dominant style, which blends various arts and media, with themes focusing on the relationship of dance and narrative along with non-European cultures. His productions have toured various European countries and have performed in Mexico as well, twice at the Festival Internacional Cervantino.
Besprosvany was born in Mexico, a second-generation Mexican whose Russian Jewish grandparents immigrated to country. In 1978, at age seventeen, he left Mexico to find better opportunities in the arts in Europe, first to France then Belgium to study theater and dance. He has lived in Belgium since. He first studied mime, movement, acting and mask play in Paris under Jacques Lecoq, at his school, then moved onto Brussels to study modern dance under Maurice Bejart at the Ecole Mudra. One of his main influences at Mudra was musician and teacher Fernand Schirren.
Besprosvany continues to live in Brussels and speaks French, English, Spanish and Hebrew, with some Dutch and Italian.
After finishing at the Mudra School, Besprosvany danced with Bejart´s 20th Century Ballet for two years, from 1981 to 1983. He left to focus on a choreography career, and in this capacity has collaborated with the Mossoux-Bonté Company, and those of Pierre Droulers, Michèle Noiret and Michèle-Anne de Mey.
In 1986, he founded the Compagnie José Besprosvany, which since then has produced at least one production every year, and has toured in various European countries and Mexico. The first productions of this company include Momentum (1984), Evento (1986), and Tempéraments (1988), along with Von Heute auf Morgen (1989), Apollon la Nuit (1990), and Retours (1992). In 1992 he created the choreographies for two operas for the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie: Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Pascal Dusapin’s Medeamaterial. More recent works include a retelling of the story of Oedipus, which premiered in Belgium in 2013, then toured Paris and Cyprus before becoming his second production at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico. The first was Cuarteto in 1995.
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