The Universitat de València celebrates San Juan night at La Nau with a performance by its own Dance Group

## The Universitat de València celebrates San Juan night at La Nau with a performance by its own Dance Group

The Universitat de València Dance Group at San Juan night in 2021.

The Universitat de València invites the university community to enjoy the magic San Juan night with a performance that will take place next Thursday night, 23rd of June, at La Nau Cultural Centre. ‘Elionor de Villena’, which will be premiered at La Nau, is a production by the Universitat de València Dance Group, with the music of the Acadèmia Capella de Ministrers (Acadèmia CdM).

‘Elionor De Villena’ was directed by the choreographer Toni Aparisi and it will be presented at 10pm. The play deals with Villena's life and work through the poetics of dance and music in order to emphasise her figure: her feminist struggle in literature and the Church. The tickets for the performance are free and exclusive for the university community. They will be available on Monday, 20th of June, from 9am on this link.

The choreographer, based on Villena's biography and work, has created a kind of world in which the ideas that vindicate the difficulty of being a woman in those times and in the present day are expressed. The performance “deals with Villena’s fight for recognition as an independent thinker, with costumes that remind of the garments worn by Villena in the convent where she wrote he work and with a stage design halfway between the medieval and the renaissance”.

The Universitat de València Dance Group was created in the academic course 2017-2018 and is currently directed by performer, choreographer and contemporary dance theatre director Toni Aparisi. With a great education on dramatic art, performance, contemporary dance and martial arts, Aparisi has been awarded with several prizes, including three Max prizes: Best Performer for ‘Alma’ (2007), Best Performer for ‘Pinoxxio’ (2016) and Best Choreography for ‘Pinoxxio’, together with Rosángeles Valls (2016). Aparisi has also won four Abril Awards for best male dance performer and several awards for best dancer at the Arts Escèniques Valencianes Awards and other competitions.

Capella de Ministrers channels its pedagogical dimension with Academia CdM, an artistic project in the line of experimentation around new proposals of reinterpreting the past with historical criteria. (Historically Informed Performance).

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