"He had no idea back then that skating would become another way of shaping and spreading dance. He didn't even fully grasp it in 2002, when he received his first request to create a choreography for the French Olympic skaters Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, who had spent some time in Andalusia working with other flamenco creators apparently without much success."
"The most recent piece is titled The Matador and the Bull, and this Saturday it will compete at the MilanCortina Winter Olympics, performed by U.S. skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates, seventime national champions and threetime world champions. I'm not interested in bullfighting, but they had a very clear idea of what they wanted. Through the relationship between a female matador [Chock] and a bull [Bates], they asked me to break gender stereotypes. And she ends with her hand on his head, dominating him."
Antonio Najarro began skating as a child and dedicated his life to dance, becoming a leading figure in Spanish dance and flamenco and directing the National Ballet of Spain from 2011 to 2019. In 2002 he accepted a challenge to choreograph for French Olympic skaters Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat despite doubts about performing flamenco on ice. That collaboration contributed to a gold-medal-winning program, Malaguena, and opened new creative possibilities. Najarro later created The Matador and the Bull for Madison Chock and Evan Bates, shaping a program intended to break gender stereotypes through the matador-bull relationship.
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