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The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Federal State Institution of Higher Education
Vaganova Ballet Academy
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Pedagogical Department
Master Level Educational Program
Report on R & D
Nacho Duato- The Pleasure of the Dance

Fulfilled: Master Course II I semester.
Course "Choreography 071200"
Sakamoto de Miasnikov Fatima MayumiTolenaida
Course Supervisor: Abramova O. ____________
(Signature)
St. Petersburg , Date: 05.11.2012
Nacho Duato- The Pleasure of the Dance

In Spain when I was a child, there were no traditions of Ballet. There were no good schools; therefore there were not good teachers. We did not have the opportunity to go to see performances in theaters. It isvery easy for me to understand now that. I didn’t realize I wanted to be a dancer until a really late age. All I knew then was that I wanted to express myself through my body. As an unavoidable necessity, a call that could not be ignored in any way, something that was beyond my control.
I have always been aware of the power of expression of my body. I do not remember the time of a revelation in thatsense. From always it was so. A millionaire may own a yacht, a private jet or Rolls-Royce in the garage. Everything is fine, of course. I, however, and I say this with all humility, I have my body.
"I started too late, it's true. But becoming a ballet dancer was probably one of the most important decisions of my life."
There are dancers who start dancing at a very young; age about 6 or 7 yearsold and even younger but still, a child at that age can hardly assimilate complex classical technique. You can simply repeat what the teacher proposes in a mechanical way, by just imitating, but cannot internalize the same way that a person of 18 years, as was my case. That maturity became the framework of the fast changes in my life in my beginnings as a dancer. I think if you start too early youcannot be sure if you want to become a professional dancer or any other vocational profession. So most of the kids leave after a few years of training. It’s almost like a hobby. While in the other hand, this is not going to happen if a boy begins his ballet training at 15 or 16 years. He is no longer a child and his maturity allows not only the understanding of the technique, but also he candecide with certainty whether he wants to spend the rest of his life in this profession or not. A person of 18 years of age possessing a good physical condition and who is aware of his true vocation advances in a quarter of the time what it takes a younger boy to achieve in a whole year. And that's exactly what happened to me.

Sources of inspiration
Music is the main source of my inspiration, andover the years, I would say, it took precedence above all others. I am very respectful of the composer, I try to adapt to the meaning I find in the music and develop my own idea.
I believe that dance is a compendium of many other arts, so I think the choreographer must try to understand and prepare globally as an artist. In General a choreographer will not have completed studies in college.

Itis therefore necessary that one cares personally for his own intellectual development. It is essential not to neglect literature and painting, and making a habit of going to exhibitions and museums and of course reading .
These two disciplines, literature and painting, are what inspire me to create more. From paintings I am inspired greatly by the color and light, by the proportions and shapesin the compositions and even the positions of the human body and figures of some specific works.
As for literature, it is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and an exceptional means to further dive into the world of music of the composer or the topic that I am to interpret in my ballet, so I usually read biographies or essays on the issues.
But I also can be inspired by any everyday thing:...