Víctor Ullate

Víctor Ullate (born 9 May 1947, Zaragoza, Spain) is a dancer, choreographer and ballet director. Ullate trained with María de Avila and at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower. He started his professional dancing life with Antonio Ruiz Soler's company in 1962 before joining Maurice Béjart's Ballet as a principal three years later. He remained there for fourteen years during which he created roles in Béjart's Ni fleurs, Ni couronnes (1967), Offrande chorégraphique (1970), Nijinsky, Clown de Dieu (1971), Golestan (1973), and I trionfi di Petrarca (1974).

Portrait of Víctor Ullate
A scene from Ullman's ballet to the music of Carmen, seen at the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián in 2017

In 1979, he was invited by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to form a new national ballet company, the Ballet Nacional de España. Later on, in 1990, when the company was reorganized and the current name adopted (Compañia Nacional de Danza), Nacho Duato was appointed artistic director.

Ullate founded his own school in 1983 which taught a rigorous academic technique and often had guest teachers from Russia or Cuba. He started his now famous ballet company, Ballet de Victor Ullate in 1988 and started choreographing. Their repertoire includes works by Balanchine, van Manen, Nils Christe, Jan Linkens, and Micha van Hoecke, as well as contemporary ballets by Ullate himself.

Some of his most successful pieces choreographed for his own company are: El Amor Brujo (1994), Volador Hacia La Luz (1995), Ven Que Te Tiente (1996), Jaleos (1996), Seguiriya (2000), La Inteligencia de Las Flores (2001) and El sur (2005). His works are an original combination of classical and neoclassical ballet and flamenco, combining Spanish traditional and classical music.

Ullate has also staged various classical ballets like Les Sylphides, Giselle and Don Quixote for his company. He left his ballet company in 2019.[1][2]

Since the year 2000, Ullate is president of the Victor Ullate Foundation for Dance, which promotes professional-level education for ballet dancers [3]

Ullate has formed and trained some of today's most famous ballet dancers, including Angel Corella, Tamara Rojo, Joaquín De Luz, Lucia Lacarra, Carlos Lopez and Igor Yebra.

He has three sons, one of them, Víctor Ullate Roche, is also a professional dancer and one of the judges on Fama ¡a bailar!

References
  1. Vidales, Raquel (2 October 2019). "Víctor Ullate echa el cierre a su compañía después de tres décadas". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. Iglesias, Félix (17 January 2019). "Víctor Ullate se despide antes de dirigir la Compañía Nacional". ABC (in Spanish). Valladolid: Vocento. Retrieved 26 November 2019.

"RC - Artículos - Entrevista a Víctor Ullate - Página 1". web.archive.org. Jul 15, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-07-15. Retrieved Oct 15, 2019.


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