Pedro Cruz Pereira, Choreographer

 

 

 

Education

• DEGREE IN CLASSICAL BALLET CHOREOGRAPHY AND TECHNIQUE BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
• TEACHER’S CERTIFICATE - Honors degree (Royal Academy of Dance)
• TEACHING DIPLOMA (Royal Academy of Dance)

Positions
Artistic director and Docent of the “School of Classic Ballet of Badajoz. Since 1983.

Director and Teacher of the “School of Ballet of Almendralejo” (Almendralejo-Badajoz). Since 1982.

Collaborating Artist with the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Spain at the following public schools: Santa Engracia (since 97-98 school year) and Manuel Pacheco ( since 05-06) (Badajoz)

Director of the Municipal School of Dance of Montijo (public position granted through  contest of merit. November of 2003) the school has since been elevated to the category of CONSERVATORY (CONSERVATORIO DE GRADO MEDIO DE DANZA.)

Additional education

• Student (audition) of the NATIONAL BALLET OF SPAIN 1981 - Director Victor Ullate-. (Professors: Carmen Roche, Lola de Avila)
• Student (Invited) to the CONSERVATORY SUPERIOR OF DANCE OF MADRID 1984 (Professors: Arcadio Carbonell)
• Student (Invited) COURSE OF CLASSIC BALLET 1985 (Professor Igor Ivanov - Lead Dancer of the National Ballet of Spain)
• Professional conservatory of Music of Badajoz 1985-89 (Professors: Teresa Rodriguez, Carmelo Solís )
• Student (Invited) course Classic Ballet of Alicante 1986 (Professor: Raissa kurzniekowa - Lead Dancer of the Ballet Bolshoi and Coreógrafa of Opera of Warsaw)
• First Spaniard GRANTED A SCHOLARSHIP by the Royal Academy of Dance in London 1986
• Student (Invited) Jazz course of the School of Dance Rate 3 (Madrid) 1987. (Professor: Faruk Fossy)
• MASTERS in Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of Dance 1989-90, with highest honours. (School of Medicine of Zaragoza)
• Student (Invited) Course given by the Classic Ballet of Alicante 1991. (Professor Alex Morrow)
• Student (Invited) course given by the Classic Ballet of Alicante 1992 (Professor Stevens Willians - First Dancer of the Classic Ballet of Scotland)

Some courses given in the last 10 years

Course “Dances of Character” and “Pas de Deux” (Professional Conservatory of Dance of Granada) Levels; Initiation, Professional and Teaching staff. 1998.

Course of Classic Ballet and “Pas de Deux” (Professional Conservatory of Dance of Granada) Levels Initiation, Professional. 1999.

Course of Applied Dance (Center of Teaching staff of Extremadura) Primary and Secondary School Music Teachers. October and November of 2002.

Course of Classic Ballet and Choreography. (Municipal School of Dance of Baeza - Jaén) 2004

Course “MUSIC and MOVEMENT” for Professors of Music in Secondary Education of the CPR of Badajoz. (April of 2005)

Course of Introduction to Dance for the creation of a Municipal School of Dance in Valdelacalzada (Badajoz)

Course of Dance for professors of Project MUS-E in coordination with the CPR of Badajoz. (April of 2006)

Workshops and Conferences given in the last 10 years

• Choreography Workshop. (Instituto de Bachillerato of Alburquerque) 1998-2002
• Choreography Workshop (Instituto de Bachillerato Artístico “Reino Aftasí” Badajoz) 1999 - 2001.
• Choreography workshop (Colegio “La Aneja” Badajoz) 2001
• Choreography Workshop. Instituto de Bachillerato Vegas Bajas de Montijo.(2005)
• Choreography Workshop. Instituto Príncipe de Asturias de Montijo.(2005)

• Workshop on Music and Movement. IES Mariano Encabo, Aceuchal (Badajoz) Mayo de 2007.
• Conference in Portalegre (Portugal) June 2004
• Course “MUSIC BY MOVEMENT” C.P.R Abril de 2005
• Lecture. National MUSE Conference  in Extremadura.
• Theater/Dance Workshop September of 2008 (Almendralejo)

Selected Professional Choreographies
The Zarzuela: Lyrical anthology 1994.
Director: Francisco Ortiz
Artistic direction: Pere Frances
National choir of the Zarzuela
Symphony orchestra of Kiev
Choreography and Dancer

Quartet for Metal and Violets 1996.
Director: Jorge Márquez
Company of Dance d.D.T.
Theater Company Samarkand.
Choreography and Dancer

Four Elements 1998.
Texts and Direction Jorge Márquez
Company of Dance d.D.T.
Choreography and Dancer

Birds 2000
Festival of Classic Theater of Merida.
Lead Characters: Jesus Puente and Fernando Callus
Music: Ramon Paus
Choreographer

Kyparisos 2000.
Roman theater of Merida.
60 Dancers.
Choreographer

Tesmoforias 2001.
Roman theater of Merida.
Choreographer (50 Dancers.)

Orfeo and Eurídice 2002.
Roman theater of Merida.
Choreographer

 

“About the Myth of the West” 2003
Based on the mural by Francisco Pedraja “the Myth of the West”
Texts: Miguel Murillo
83 Dancers
Cruz realizes 7 of the 10 choreographies and Dancer

Peace
Version by Aristophanes de Miguel Murillo for the IL Festival of Classic Theater of Merida Director: Juan Margallo
Music: Mariano Marin
Protagonist: Joaquin Kremel Choreographer

Women
International Day of Dance 2004
Choreographic script and Choreography for 80 Dancers

The Four Seasons.
Choreographic script and eight of the twelve choreographies for 97 dancers.

Requiem for two reasons
Choreographic script and eight of the twelve choreographies. 85 dancers.

A kiss, to remember you by.
Released on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DANCE 2008
Músic BY Vicente Amigo

Love Pain, love.
Released on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DANCE 2008
Music: Tanhausser de Wagner.

Water
In collaboration with Samarkanda theater company.
August of 2008

GALA 25 ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALLET SCHOOL OF ALMENDRALEJO
Selection of Choreographies by different authors and the collaboration of professional dancers.

Other Choreographies

Allegro con Brio. Beethowen
Aria del Aire. Bach
Ave María. Shubert
Sueño con Muñecos. Hydn
Carmen. Bizet
La Traviata. Verdi
Oda a la Alegria. Beethowen
Concierto para Trompeta y Variación sobre una Danza Griega. Hydn-Theodorakis
La Luz Negra. Beethowen
La vieja y la Muerte. Chopin
Morir de Amor. Varios Autores
Suite Helénica
Thannhauser. Wagner
Meditación de Thaiss
Canço do Mar
Canzonetta para Tres.Tchaikoski
Tango-Vals-Ragtime. Stravinski
Elements.Enya
Destinées.Mertens
La Parca. Barber
Amapola
As well as choreographies for small pieces destined for the Schools of Dance of Madrid, Portalegre (Portugal), Alicante, and Mérida.

Choreographies for Theater

Want to Play? (¿Juegas?)
Company: Dueto
Director: Lola Gragera
Choreography for Theater

Night of the Masks 1995.
Production: Junta de Extremadura
Director: Jorge Márquez

Mais Patas que nunca 1997.
Musical Comedy.
Director: Jorge Márquez
Scenery: Pedro Cruz

Sex, Terror and other crazy things (Sexo, terror y otras locuras)
Direction: Fermín Núñez
Compañía Samarcanda

Las Bacantes  (Granada 1999.)
Director: Domingo Cruz
Scenery: Pedro Cruz

Artistic Direction and Choreography for “NOSTALGIA”
Theater, Music and Dance based on Poems  Castúos y Flamenco.

At Present Cruz has reopened his professional dance company dDT ( de Danza y Teatro) in order to produce  LOVE LETTERS (CARTAS DE AMOR), which denounces the situation of battered women.

Other collaborations
1994 “Still Life AT the Penguin Coffee” choreography requested by The Royal Academy to commemorate its “75 ANNIVERSARY”

1996 Gala de las Naciones. CIOFF Commissioned by the Spanish delegataion.

2005 Artistic Director of xxv International Folklore Festival of Badajoz 2005

2005 (October) Show in collaboration with “Fight against Cancer” Association with the orchestra of the Conservatory of Music of Montijo (Badajoz)

2006 (5 of May) Exchange with the School of Music and Dance of Elvas (Portugal) Suite nº 3 of Bach with the Orchestra of the Conservatory of Montijo (Badajoz)

2006 (27 of May) Joven Ballet Pedro Cruz Invited to Baeza (Jaén)
Mythodea.
Carmina Burana.
Réquiem por dos razones.

Since the 1998-99 Academic school year Pedro Cruz has participated in the International project developed by YEHUDI MENUHIN called MUS-E, for the integration of at-risk children through the dance. He has coordinated dance in Extremadura and works in 2 centers.

1999,2000,01,02,03,04 y 05. he has organized, coordinated, and choreographed the “WORLD-WIDE DAY OF DANCE” Lopez de Ayala Theater (Badajoz), and in the Theater Carolina Coronado of Almendralejo (04, 05 and 06)

He has collaborated as a dancer /choreographer in multitude of Shows  and Benefit Galas, in Solidarity with:
Galas en Solidaridad con Mujeres de Negro contra la Guerra.
Gala Benéfica pro-marginados (Alicante)
Galas Benéficas para Cruz Roja/ Red Cross