Vania Masías Málaga

Vania Masías Málaga
Born (1979-01-03) 3 January 1979 (age 45)
Lima, Peru
Education
Occupation(s)Dancer, choreographer

Vania Masías Málaga (born 3 January 1979) is a Peruvian dancer and choreographer. She is founder and president of the D1 Cultural Association.

Biography

Vania Masías Málaga was born in Lima on 3 January 1979, the daughter of Manuel Masías Marrou and Beatriz Málaga Checa.[1] She is the niece of the former First Lady Clorinda Málaga [es] and the athlete Natalia Málaga.

She attended the Colegio Villa María in Lima. She later graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration at the Universidad del Pacífico, and was an exchange student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She studied ballet at Lucy Telge [es]'s school in 1987.[2] She participated in the Latin American Children's Ballet Competition on two occasions, winning a silver medal and then a gold. At age 15, she participated in the Prix de Lausanne, an international classical dance festival.

In 1997, Masías began appearing in principal dancer roles with the ballet of the Teatro Municipal de Lima. She later participated in ballets such as Don Quixote, where she was a soloist, and studied in Cuba and at the Boston Ballet.[3] She passed exams at the Royal Academy of Dance, a British school with which Lucy Telge was affiliated.[4] She was hired by the National Ballet of Ireland.[5]

She ventured into contemporary dance with dancer-choreographer Yvonne von Mollendorf, representing Peru at festivals in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Aruba.

In 2005, Masías was selected to join Cirque du Soleil after auditions in London. However, she instead returned to Lima and formed the group Ángeles de Arena with young acrobats there. She founded the D1 Cultural Association the same year.[2][5][6]

In early 2006, she was part of the cast of the musical Broadway Nights. In 2007, she staged the musical Mezcla, which was re-released in 2008 as Mezclados, and in 2009 as Más mezclados.[2]

In 2010, she appeared in the play El musical 2010, produced by Denisse Dibós's Preludio Asociación Cultural.[7]

In January 2012, she gave birth to her first child.[8] On 28 and 29 March 2011, her company D1 Dance performed at the Choreographers Festival in New York, at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, organized by the R.Evolución Latina collective.[9] The same year, she directed the musical TuLima at the Teatro Peruano Japonés, also with a special performance in the Plaza de Armas of Lima.[10][11]

In 2012, Masías participated in the choreographic direction of the musical Chicago. That year she also presented the "Pura Calle" International Festival of Urban Cultures in Lima.[1][12] In 2016, she was the director of choreography for Mamma Mia!

Masías is an ambassador of the Peru Brand, a member of the Ministry of Culture's Advisory Council, and a member of the National Council of Education [es].[13][14]

Theater credits

Ballet

Director of choreography

General creative director

Productions with D1

  • Orígenes Virú (2017): London, Arequipa, Trujillo tour
  • Imagina Perú (2018): London tour

References

  1. ^ a b Aguirre, Amet (25 May 2019). "Vania Masías: 'Toda la diversidad que nos fue llegando nos ha hecho ricos'" [Vania Masías: "All the Diversity That Has Come to Us Has Made Us Rich"]. Perú.21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Vania Masías: 'Mi padre me enseñó qué es la responsabilidad social'" [Vania Masías: "My father taught me what social responsibility is"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 7 July 2008. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  3. ^ Bonilla, Manolo. "Vania Masías: La filosofía del movimiento" [Vania Masías: The Philosophy of Movement]. Asia Sur (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. ^ Caretas: ilustración peruana, Issues 1889-1893 (in Spanish). Empresa Editora Caretas S. A. 2005. pp. 4, 6. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b "Gente de hoy" [People of Today]. Cosas Peru (in Spanish). No. 580. 28 October 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via Issuu.
  6. ^ "Vania Masías, la mujer que cambió el ballet por los chicos del semáforo" [Vania Masías, the Woman Who Changed Ballet for the Traffic Light Boys]. Clarín Revista Ñ (in Spanish). 19 December 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Broadway llega a Lima con 'El Musical 2010'" [Broadway Comes to Lima with "El Musical 2010"] (in Spanish). Terra Peru. 10 May 2010. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Vania Masías sobre su hijo: 'Es el único que me ha puesto el pare'" [Vania Masías About Her Son: "He is the Only One Who Has Put Me Off"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 17 February 2011. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Compañía de danza de Vania Masías lleva el arte peruano a festival en NY" [Vania Masías' Dance Company Takes Peruvian Art to Festival in NY]. El Comercio (in Spanish). New York. EFE. 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Vania Masías: 'Siempre he soñado en grande'" [Vania Masías: "I Have Always Dreamed Big"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 21 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  11. ^ "'TuLima' de Vania Masías este domingo en la Plaza de Armas" ["TuLima" by Vania Masías This Sunday in the Plaza de Armas] (in Spanish). Radio Programas del Perú. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Vania Masías presenta el primer Festival Internacional de Culturas Urbanas" [Vania Masías Presents the First International Festival of Urban Cultures]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 23 June 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  13. ^ Marca Perú: un signo que distingue [Peru Brand: A Sign That Distinguishes] (PDF) (in Spanish). University of San Martín de Porres. 2014. p. 35. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Presentan al Consejo Consultivo que guiará la agenda conmemorativa por los 200 años de la Independencia del Perú" [Presenting the Consultative Council That Will Guide the Commemorative Agenda for the 200th Anniversary of the Independence of Peru] (in Spanish). Ministry of Culture of Peru. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
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