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Mario Maya

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Mario Maya © Fernando Ruso / EL MUNDO

Speciality

Dance, Flamenco

Date of birth

1937

Date of death

2008

"Choreographer, dancer, teacher and company director. He always sought out new forms of expression based on flamenco roots."

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Mario Maya Fajardo was born in Cordoba in 1937. He grew up in Granada and started to dance in the Sacromonte caves. He danced with Manolo Caracol in the 1950s. At the Pilar López ballet he partnered La Chunga from 1956 to 1958. They debuted at the Biombo Chino in Madrid and toured South America and the United States. He set up his own school in Seville in 1983 and, ten years later, presented his new company ‘Flamenco Mario Maya’ at the Alcalá Palace Theatre in Madrid. Between 1994 and 1997 he directed the Andalusian Dance Company at the Andalusian Dance Centre. He took part in Carlos Saura’s film Flamenco in 1995. He died in Seville in September 2008.

Awards

National Dance Award (1992)

Essential works

¡Ay…Jondo!

Mario Maya dramatises the verses and poems of Juan de Loxa in support of the gypsy people.
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Camelamos naquenar

The choreographer and director Mario Maya drmatises the persecution suffered by the gypsy people.
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Ceremonial

In this work the choreographer and director Mario Maya experiments with the language of flamenco based on the poetic work of Juan de Loxa.
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El Amargo

García Lorca's brutal vision of a gypsy's fate performed by a towering figure of flamenco, Mario Maya.
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El Amor Brujo

The gypsy world finds a niche in the Venice Festival.
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