Performance, research, teaching and artistic creation built on extensive international experience in classical, neoclassical and contemporary ballet.
This website presents Laura Hormigón and Óscar Torrado as individual, active professionals. Their former Danzarte Ballet project is preserved separately as the historical archive of a completed stage of their careers.
© Enrique CidonchaPhD in Musicology, researcher, historian and author. She was a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Cuba for ten years and now focuses her work on ballet history in Spain, Romantic ballet and Marius Petipa.
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© Mercedes BurgosInternational dancer, choreographer, artistic director, university lecturer and researcher. He was a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Cuba from 1995 to 2005 and currently works extensively in artistic direction, choreography and higher dance education.
Explore his career →InstagramResearch, teaching, artistic direction, choreographic creation and institutional collaboration.
Books, articles, research projects, conferences, academic supervision and scholarly output.
University teaching, classical technique, repertoire, pas de deux and specialist training.
Artistic direction, creation, adaptation, restaging and stage consultancy.
Conference papers, seminars, public engagement and collaboration with cultural institutions.
Their careers include companies and theatres in Spain, Cuba, the United States, Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Canada, Colombia, France, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Mexico and Egypt.
Their individual pages bring together companies, repertoire, teachers, theatres, galas, awards and selected visual documentation.
From 2001 to 2008, Laura Hormigón and Óscar Torrado collaborated for eight years with RTVE on El Conciertazo, the programme directed by Fernando Argenta that introduced classical music and ballet to children and family audiences.
They worked as performers, presenters, scriptwriters and ballet communicators, combining explanations and demonstrations with excerpts from the classical repertoire accompanied by a live orchestra.
View this period and its video archive (Spanish) →Alongside their television work, through Danzarte Ballet they developed projects introducing audiences to classical ballet, including ¡Va de Danza!, ¡Viva el Ballet Clásico! and the Ballet en familia campaigns.
Explore the Danzarte Ballet archive (Spanish) →Historical research, publications and academic output by both authors.
A selection of stage moments from their artistic careers.
A selection of the main distinctions received throughout their careers.
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