Antonio Ruis Soler, 2003 Swarovski Collectors Soc

Product ID Price Size Artist Designer Ltd. Ed. SCS Antonio $385.00 8,25H x 3.25" Swarovski Martin Zendon Yes

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Description: Antonio Ruiz Soler; Sevilla, 1921 - Madrid, 1996. Ballet and flamenco dancer. Partner of Rosario until 1952. Immediately after they separated, the dancer began to form his first company alone. Before its debut, he created a dance of martinetes for the film Duende y misterio del Flamenco. Martínez de la Peña pointed out the transformation that came about in the work of Antonio at that time, who went from being an exceptional dancer to
having to deal with other aspects related to managing a ballet company. "As director, he keeps the shows at a high artistic level. He performs a complete job: he assembles, stages and even directed the lighting to create light effects that would be much repeated later on. As a choreograph he is able to move large masses which dance in precise steps, perfectly synchronized. His company attains the level of the European Ballets. The choreographs are set up with rich, varied steps. He deals out grace or severity according to the rhythms he uses. There is a lot of study behind each "dance".
That year and the following ones were probably the most fertile stage of Antonio’s creation, as he constantly produced new titles or recovered others he had previously danced with Rosario. His programs combined different forms of Spanish dance, such as classical, folklore and flamenco, and he left his trace of genius on all of them. It was not only his stage of greatest activity, but also that of a creative capacity of really extraordinary levels. The following matters were those of greatest transcendency: Suite de Sonatas by Padre Soler, El segoviano esquivo by Matilde Salvador, El Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla, El sombrero de tres picos HP860, in Hollywood and in Spain. Antonio was an unequaled idol in his years of maximum apogee. He mingled among the top personalities of universal art, with royalty, the aristocracy, he was a frequent character in the pink press, was attributed romance of the most varied kind. He was one of those rare beings, to sum up, in whom frivolity and great genius live together without any apparent internal trauma. He retired from dancing in 1979. In 1981 he was made Director of the National Ballet of Spain, which lived a fairly conflictive stage under his management, leading to his dismissal three months before his contract was due to end. A severe illness had him wheelchair bound until his death in 1996.