Biography
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Rocío Molina was born in Málaga in 1984. She started dancing as early as age three, when she began her professional training, completing her career in 2002 at the Real Conservatorio de Danza de Madrid, graduating with full marks. In 2001 she joined María Pagés’s company, choreographing one of the numbers in the production titled “Las Cuatro Estaciones” (The Four Seasons), touring throughout Italy, Japan, Canada and The United States, where she took part in the Andalusian Gala at the New York City Center. In 2003 she again took part in the USA Flamenco Festival, performing as a soloist, together with Manuela Carrasco and Chocolate, and forming a duo with Israel Galván. In 2005 she premiered her first production “Entre Paredes” (Between Walls) at the Teatro Principal de Vitoria, touring various Andalusian provinces. Subsequently, coinciding with the first Málaga in Flamenco Festival in 2005, the Andalusian Agency for the Development of Flamenco chose her to produce and star in a show for this Festival. The result was “El Eterno Retorno” (The Eternal Return), based on texts by Nietzsche, with Juan Carlos Romero as musical director, Pepa Gamboa as stage director and featuring Pastora Vega and Teresa Nieto. This was the work she presented in her debut at the Jerez Festival in 2006 and it has received rave reviews wherever it has been presented. She has performed as a guest artist in Antonio Canales’s production “Bohemio”. In August 2006 she presented an “alternative” production at the Pradillo Theatre in Madrid called “Turquesa como el Limón” (Turquoise like the Lemon) with the bailaora Laura Rozalén. She also presented a new show titled “Dorantes”, especially produced for the Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville, touring throughout Spain. During the 2006 Seville Flamenco Biennial she co-starred in the production “Andalucía, el Flamenco y la Humanidad” (Andalusia, Flamenco and Humanity) with dancers Belén Maya and Rafaela Carrasco, and the singer Carmen Linares. In 2007 she was invited to perform at the presentation of Miguel Poveda’s new album in Madrid and Barcelona. She was also responsible for accompanying Chano Lobato as the only dancer in a recent homage to him held at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Rocío Molina’s latest creation is titled “Almario”. It was premiered at the Villamarta Theatre during the Jerez Festival and was directed by Miguel Serrano. In “Almario” Rocío lays bare her manner of dance and reveals flamenco in its purest state. “Almario” has been described as “an almost perfect work in which the young dancer from Málaga is herself again and commands with the intensity of her intelligence, creativity and absolute courage, marking the beginning of a new era in female flamenco dancing” (Estela Zatania). |
Apart from consolidating herself as one of the best flamenco dancers of her time, Rocío has also gathered experience in the field of choreography, choreographing numbers for the María Pagés and José Porcel companies, the Real Conservatorio de Danza de Madrid and Pitingo and Juan Carmonas’ production “Soulería” Throughout her career she has received numerous prizes, among the most recent, the prize for the most outstanding dancer at the XI Certamen de Coreografía y Danza de Madrid in 2002; the El Madroño and Venencia Flamenca al Mistela prizes for the Best Flamenco Dancer in 2006. She was recently awarded the “Flamenco de Hoy” Critics’ Prize for the best New Female Flamenco Dancer 2006. |
Premios
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2008
2007
2002
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