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Arantxa Aguirre
Premios Goya 2018 - Richard Perron, Arantxa Aguirre y Jose Luis Lopez Linares (Dancing Beethoven) 02 (cropped).jpg
Arantxa Aguirre during the 32nd Goya Awards
Born
Arantxa Aguirre Carballeira

1965 (age 55–56)
Occupation Film director and screenwriter
Years active1990–present
Parent(s) Javier Aguirre
Enriqueta Carballeira

Arantxa Aguirre Carballeira (born 1965) is a Spanish film director specialising in documentaries. She is also a scriptwriter. She is the daughter of noted Spanish film director Javier Aguirre and Spanish actress Enriqueta Carballeira.

Her best known film is perhaps Dancing Beethoven , which was nominated for the Goya Awards in 2017. [1] It is about the creation of a ballet to the music of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. [2] The choreography is by Maurice Béjart. Aguirre had made an earlier film about Béjart's legacy called El esfuerzo y el ánimo ("Of Heart and Courage"). [3]

In 2018 she released El amor y el muerte ("Love and Death"). [4] This film about the composer Enrique Granados takes its title from a piece in his piano suite Goyescas . It features noted performers of the music such as Rosa Torres-Pardo and Evgeny Kissin. [5]


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References

  1. ↑ "Dancing Beethoven". Premios Goya (in Spanish). 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Cervera, Marta (1 May 2017). "Arantxa Aguirre: "Béjart no es solo para los 'balletómanos'"". El Periódico (in Spanish). Barcelona: Grupo Zeta. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ↑ García, Rocío (24 October 2009). "El 'huracán' Béjart" (in Spanish). Dance critic of El País . Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  4. ↑ "Estreno de El amor y la muerte, de Arantxa Aguirre". Melómano Digital (in Spanish). 7 November 2018. ISSN   2605-2121 . Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Arantxa Aguirre estrenará en la Seminci de Valladolid «El amor y la muerte, una película documental sobre Enrique Granados". Codalario. La Revista de Música Clásica (in Spanish). 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  6. ↑ RTVE.es (2017-03-29). "'La zarza de Moisés', el documental que se adentra en el proceso creativo de Els Joglars". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  7. ↑ Una rosa para Soler , retrieved 2020-01-31
  8. ↑ RTVE.es, IMPRESCINDIBLES / (2016-10-24). "'Una mujer de teatro' traza un retrato humano de Nuria Espert". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  9. ↑ An American Swan in Paris , retrieved 2020-01-30
  10. ↑ "EL ESFUERZO Y EL ÁNIMO de Arantxa Aguirre". Danza Ballet (in Spanish). 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  11. ↑ "Cyprus : Hécuba, un sueño de pasión". www.cyprusevents.net. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  12. ↑ Un ballet para el siglo XXI , retrieved 2020-01-31
  13. ↑ Un instante en la vida ajena (2003) , retrieved 2020-01-31


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