Dancer and choreographer from Tenerife, Daniel Abreu, winner of the National Dance Award, returns in 2024 to be featured in the prestigious list of finalists for the Max Awards with the show La Materia. He is nominated for Best choreography along with Olga Pericet, who is also a finalist for the same award for Best female dance performer, also for La Materia.
This is not the first time, by any means, that Abreu has reached the finals of the awards that distinguish the best of the performing arts in the country and which are awarded annually by the General Society of Authors and Editors, the SGAE. He was a finalist in 2021, in the XXIV edition of the awards, in the category for Best male dance performer with the show El Hijo.
La Materia is the second chapter of the trilogy that Olga Pericet began with La Leona and will conclude with La Invencible, a work in which she continues to explore the evolution of Spanish and flamenco guitars and which features the Canary dancer and performer.
Olga Pericet is a “great innovator” of flamenco who draws from tradition while embarking on new initiatives with shows in which flamenco can contrast between masculinity and femininity, dark and luminous, unsettling and beautiful. She is also a recipient of the National Dance Award, which was bestowed upon her in 2018.
Meanwhile, the list of finalists also includes two other dance shows that can be seen on the island during the first week of June as part of the Festival of Movement Arts (FAM). Mont Ventoux, by Korsia, is nominated for Best dance performance and will close FAM at the Auditorium of Tenerife on June 9. On the other hand, Go Figure (Ex Aequo), which is a finalist for the Max Awards in the category of Best male dance performer for Shmuel Dvir Cohen and Tomer Navot, will kick off the FAM program on June 1 at the La Granja Space in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The Max Awards for Performing Arts announced yesterday the finalists in the 20 contest categories of its 27th edition. The jury meeting took place on May 13 via teleconference. Out of the 522 shows registered in this edition, 186 became candidates. Among them, only 44 productions have reached the final phase, with a total of 71 finalists. The winners will be revealed on July 1 at a ceremony held at the Auditorium of Tenerife and directed by the Tenerife playwright José Padilla. The play Forever, by Kulunka Teatro, is the frontrunner for this year’s awards with four nominations. Other top contenders include Falsestuff. La muerte de las musas, from the National Dramatic Center, which is also up for Best theatrical production, and the opera Alexina B, by Fundació Gran Teatre del Liceu, nominated in the category of Best Musical or Operatic Show.
