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Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater featuring Isaac Tovar

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater featuring Isaac Tovar Isaac Tovar

The Ensemble Español Center for Spanish Dance and Music is chartered to share the rich traditions of the dance, music, literature, and culture of Spain in the classical, folkloric and Flamenco styles, with all communities, and to be a center which encourages new artistic creativity within the framework of the Ibero-Hispanic (Spain) experience. Through performance, training and educational programming the Ensemble promotes this cultural pluralism as a living source of pride at the city, state, national, and international levels.  


The Mission of our company is the preservation, presentation and promotion of Spanish dance and culture, which includes the exploration of the country's history and identifies its influence on Latin American art and dance. Maintaining the highest caliber of artistic and educational excellence solidifies the Ensemble's role as a leader in Hispanic world culture.     

Isaac Tovar was most recently soloist of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía. He has since choreographed and performed at Lincoln Center in a production of Bizet’s Carmen. He was then featured alongside Esperanza Fernandez and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto in performances of Falla’s Amor Brujo and El Sombrero de Tres Picos at the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami. Isaac headlined the Festival Flamenco at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in Fall 2022. His first solo production “Añejo” debuted in Seville in 2018 and his second production “Generaciones” premiered at the prestigious Royal Theater in Madrid in 2019.
 
Tovar is the recipient of numerous 1st prizes in dance: at the renowned Concurso IV Internacional de Danza in Almería, the Concurso Nacional de la Perla de Cádiz and the XXVII Concurso Nacional de Ubrique. He won the 2nd prize for Solo Choreography in the XXV Certamen de Danza Española y Flamenco in Madrid.He performed as a semifinalist in the LIX Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas.
 
Over the years he has worked alongside flamenco legends such as José Antonio, Belén Maya, Antonio Canáles, Juana Amaya, Antonio el Pipa and Rafaela Carrasco among many other names.

He received his higher education degree in Choreography and Interpretation from the Conservatorio Superior de Danza “Maria de Ávila” in Madrid and has decades of experience teaching both flamenco and spanish dance throughout Europe, Canada and the United States.
 
Throughout his career he has danced in important theaters around the world, including: Place des Arts in Montreal, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Teatro Villamarta in Jerez, Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Palace of Music in Moscow, Chaillot Theater in Paris, Sadler’s Wells of London, Bunkamura Theater in Tokyo, International Theater in Taipei, Peking Opera House, and the Joyce Theater in New York City.

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