Gustavo Ramírez Sansano
Artistic Director - Gustavo Ramírez Sansano was born in San Fulgencio, Spain, Sansano, age 31, started dancing with Josetta Garciasuch and trained with such teachers as Karemia Moreno, Guillermina Coll and Jose Maria Escudero from the Instituto del Teatro of Barcelona. In 1990 Sansano joined the Ballet Joven de Alicante, directed by Pilar Sanchez (1990-1994). Following that he danced in Ballet Contemporaneo de Barcelona, directed by Amelia Boluda (1996-1997), Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid, directed by Victor Ullate (1997--1998), Nederlands Dans Theater II, directed by Gerald Tibbs and Jiri Kylian (1998-2001), and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, directed by Jim Vincent (2001-2002). For the last four years he has served as the Artistic Director of his own company in Valencia, TITOYAYA Dance Project. He has danced works by Jacopo Godani, Hans Van Manen, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot, Victor Ullate and Jim Vincent, among others.
Sansano has been the recipient of numerous awards, including First Prize for choreography at the 1997 Ricardo Moragas Barcelona Competition, First Prize at the Dom Perignon choreographic competition Hamburg, Best Choreography and Best of Show at Las Artes Escénicas de la Comunidad Valenciana 2. Sansano’s work has been featured at “Les Etoiles del Ballet2000” in Cannes (2004), and the IX International Festival of Ballet in Miami (2004). He has been commissioned to create works for Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain), Hamburg Ballet (Germany), Ballet Met (USA), Ballet Carmen Roche (Spain), Gyori Ballet (Hungary), Ballet Junior de Geneve (Switzerland), Budapest Dance Theater (Hungary), Balletto dell’Esperia (Italy), Passerelles (Belgium), Abc Dance Company (Austria), IT Dansa (Spain), Ballet de Teatres (Spain), Patas Arriba (Spain), Nederlands Dans Theater II (Holland), Luna Negra Dance Theater (USA), and Dominic Walsh Dance Theater (USA). Sansano was chosen by the magazine Por La Danza for its 15th anniversary as one of fifteen choreographers to consider.
Ramírez created Flabbergast (2001) and Luna de Miel (2004) for Luna Negra Dance Theater