Pilar López Júlvez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish choreographer and dancer
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Place of Birth: Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
About Pilar López Júlvez
- Pilar López Júlvez (4 June 1912, San Sebastián – 25 March 2008, Madrid) was a Spanish choreographer and ballerina (bailaora).
- Encarnación López Júlvez (1898-1945), known as La Argentinita, was her older sister. Pilar López was admired for her Ballet Español.
- She had become famous as a flamenco dancer, among her extensive performance credits: the 1933 flamenco-inspired staging of Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, and the 1952 film Duende y misterio del flamenco.
- The 1933 choreography for Falla's ballet, according to Antonio de Triana, was "achieved through a mingling of ideas and improvisations" in which Pilar joined her sister and others its creation.
- The innovative film had no plot, but featured fourteen segments each focused on a flamenco cante or palo.
- Here Pilar López danced with Alejandro Vega, doing la caña.After her sister's early death, Pilar formed her own flamenco dance company and mounted theatrical shows.
- She realized a continuing success.
- Many came to enjoy the well-crafted performances.
- Yet during this era of ópera flamenco such shows seemed to direct their attention to audiences unfamiliar with flamenco.
- Accordingly, this era was also critiqued by some aficionados whose claim was their savoring of the fine points of the art."Pilar's dancing is feminine and quietly moving".
- She also possessed a "talent for forming fine male dancers in her company".
- In the 1940s her dancers on tour included José Greco, before he formed his own company.
- Later she "strongly influenced the formation of...
- Antonio Gades" who, starting at age fifteen, toured with her troupe for eight years.
- In 1962 he was "appointed the first maestro and choreographer in the Scala of Milan".
- Acclaimed through "years of artistic success" Pilar and her husband Tomás Ríos, a musician and composer, resided in Madrid where they later retired.
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