Blanca Li

Blanca Li

Blanca Li, originally Blanca María Gutiérrez Ortiz (born January 12, 1964) is a Spanish choreographer, film director, dancer and actress. She has created choreographies for the Paris Opera Ballet, The Berlin Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, for filmmakers like Pedro Almodóvar and Michel Gondry or for musical artists like Beyoncé, Daft Punk ("Around the World" ), Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Coldplay, among others. Whether performance, opera, musical, museum installation, event, music video or feature film, she initiates and realizes a great number of projects: "I like to give life to all that’s in my brain". Never restricted to one style, she gets her inspiration from a broad spectrum of physical forms of expression (from flamenco to classical ballet and hip-hop). Blanca Li, originally Blanca María Gutiérrez Ortiz, was born in 1964 in Granada, in a nine-member family. She started to take Flamenco dance lessons during her childhood and participated in a contest to join the Spanish Rhythmic Gymnastics Team. She was accepted at the age of twelve, but she abandoned the team six months before the Olympics because of growth disorders. However, due to her need for physical activity, she decided to replace gymnastics with dance. She moved to New York at the age of seventeen, where she was trained for five years as a dancer and choreographer at Martha Graham’s School. She also studied with Alvin Ailey, Paul Sanasardo and Merce Cunningham. In New York she lived in Harlem, where she witnessed the birth of hip hop. Her first show took place in the East Village and it was a mix of different styles: classical, modern and hip hop dance. During those years, Blanca met Etienne Li, a mathematician who was also a Franco-Korean graffiti artist. He designed the pamphlets of her first show and would later become her partner. During her time in New York, she created Xoxonees with her sister, a flamenco-rap band in which they danced wearing flamenco dressed. They received an offer in Spain, where they released an homonymous album in 1989. In the late eighties, she founded her first company in Madrid, a company she performed with in the Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992, also known as “Expo 92”. Later that year, she moved to Paris. During her first year in the French capital, she worked in a cabaret at Place Pigalle where she introduced herself to singers and other artists. She settles in Paris in 1993 to install her own contemporary dance company, with 14 major pieces at her repertory since. She opens up her own dance studios in Paris in 1998. Fusion between disciplines and a very Latin sense of humor are present in most of her creations. Macadam Macadam, a hip-hop piece commissioned by Suresnes Cite Danse Festival in 1999, becomes the reference of the genre, while touring worldwide, from Avignon Festival to Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2006, in a series performed at the Théâtre Mogador of Paris, Macadam Macadam receives the Globes de Cristal for Best Musical. She creates her first one-woman show Zap! Zap! Zap!, which is successfully performed at Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris and at The Kitchen in New York City for the France Moves Festival (2001). ... Source: Article "Blanca Li" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Populariteit : 0.454
  • Bekend om : Acting
  • Verjaardag : 1964-01-12
  • Geboorteplaats : Granada, Andalucía, Spain
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Blanca Li Films

  • 1995
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    Pigalle

    Pigalle

    5.1 1995 HD

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  • 2002
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    Le Défi

    Le Défi

    4.5 2002 HD

    Een muzikale komedie op een hiphopbeat, in het speelfilmdebuut van actrice die regisseur is geworden Blanca Li, waarin een toegewijde jonge...

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  • 2009
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    Le Code a changé

    Le Code a changé

    5.4 2009 HD

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  • 2002
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    La chatte andalouse

    La chatte andalouse

    5.7 2002 HD

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  • 1993
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    Kika

    Kika

    6.5 1993 HD

    In deze scherpe satire van Pedro Almodóvar ontmoeten we de in Spanje woonachtige Amerikaanse schrijver Nicholas (Peter Coyote). Zijn vrouw...

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  • 1998
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    Insomnio

    Insomnio

    4.9 1998 HD

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  • 1995
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    Gazon maudit

    Gazon maudit

    6.1 1995 HD

    Laurent en Loli vormen een gelukkig koppel in een chique wijk in het zuiden van Frankrijk. Op een dag heeft Marijo autopech juist voor hun huis....

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  • 2023
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    Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself

    Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself

    7.9 2023 HD

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  • 1995
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    Gazon maudit

    Gazon maudit

    6.1 1995 HD

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  • 2005
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    Thunder Perfect Mind

    Thunder Perfect Mind

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2023
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    Dido & Aeneas - Gran Teatre del Liceu

    Dido & Aeneas - Gran Teatre del Liceu

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2004
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    Les Indes Galantes

    Les Indes Galantes

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2002
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    Le Défi

    Le Défi

    4.5 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Le Défi

    Le Défi

    4.5 2002 HD

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  • 2013
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    Los amantes pasajeros

    Los amantes pasajeros

    5.7 2013 HD

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  • 2000
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    Un matin partout dans le monde

    Un matin partout dans le monde

    4.5 2000 HD

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  • 2016
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    Elektro Mathematrix

    Elektro Mathematrix

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Elektro Mathematrix

    Elektro Mathematrix

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2019
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    Sentiments distingués

    Sentiments distingués

    1 2019 HD

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  • 1985
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    Télématin

    Télématin

    4.5 1985 HD

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  • 2018
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    Bailando con las estrellas

    Bailando con las estrellas

    6 2018 HD

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  • 2015
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    Capitaine Marleau

    Capitaine Marleau

    5.8 2015 HD

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  • 2018
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    La resistencia

    La resistencia

    5.778 2018 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1970
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    5.5 1970 HD

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