Blanca Li

Quick Facts

Full Name	Blanca Li
Occupation	Choreographer
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1964(1964-01-12)
Age	60
Birthplace	Granada
Country	Spain
Birth City	Andalusia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Blanca Li Biography

Blanca Li is one of the most popular and richest Choreographer who was born on January 12, 1964 in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Blanca Li, originally Blanca Maria Gutierrez Ortiz was born 1964 in Granada and was part of a family of nine. She began to take Flamenco dancing lessons in her early years and was a participant in a competition to be a part of the Spanish Rhythmic Gymnastics Team. She was accepted at age of 12 however, she quit the team just six months before the Olympics due to growth issues. Due to her desire to be physically active she decided to substitute the sport of gymnastics with dancing.

Outside of her firm, Blanca Li has choreographed and created a number of productions for institutions with major names. She was been commissioned to the Nancy Opera to direct and choreograph two of their operas, La vida breve as well as El amor brujo. She also choreographs in 1999, she choreographs her world-premiere of Un Tango Pour Monsieur Lautrec. In 1999 The Paris Opera asks her for an original choreography in The Baroque production Les Indes galantes conducted by William Christie and produced by Andrei Serban. (Rameau’s ballet opera which is now part of the repertoire of the Opera and released on DVD in 2005.). In the course of the millennium, Blanca Li creates, together with trapeze artists an Air ballet Univers Unique. Monique Loudieres Danseuse Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet company, requests Li to develop an original solo for her: Silhouette, to be presented in the Avignon Festival in 2000.

From the beginning, she extends her activity by participating as a choreographer to the movie industry (French Twist by Josiane Balasko, Dry Cleaning by Anne Fontaine, Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry, I’m So Excited by Pedro Almodóvar, to advertising (Perrier, Gap, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Prada, Lancôme, Longchamp, Beyoncé, H&M, Kookai, Kenzo) or to music videos (Daft Punk’s Around the World , Blur’s “Music Is My Radar”, Rita Mitsouko, Goldfrapp, Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Coldplay True Love…) She writes a script and shoots her first short film: Angoisse (4 “Best Film” Awards). She directs numerous audiovisual works and humorous short films (And so on, la Paella, Un après-midi, Sandance, Home Fitness). She directs the adaptation of her choreographic work, Al Andalús for Arte TV Channel in 2002.

She draws inspiration from various sources, from Gnawa trance ceremonies in Morocco for Nana et Lila or Ancient Greek art for Le Songe du Minotaure. She stages the madness of our contemporary world in the wake of September 11 attacks in collaboration with plastic artists Jorge and Lucy Orta for Borderline (2002). Corazón Loco, playing with love fusion and disintegration, combines dancers with lyrical singers of the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3, directed by Catherine Simonpietri on a contemporary score by Édith Canat de Chizy; Poet in New York, inspired by the poems of Federico García Lorca in New York City and commissioned by Andalucia’s Ministry of Culture, has gathered nearly 150 000 spectators during its performances at the summer festival in Granada, (two seasons), Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris, and Teatros del Canal in Madrid.

She moves to Paris in 1993, establishing her own company of contemporary dance with 14 major pieces on her repertoire. She began the doors to her dance studios Paris in 1998. The fusion of disciplines and an extremely Latin spirit of humor is the hallmarks of the majority of her works. Macadam Macadam, a hip-hop piece that was commissioned by the Suresnes Cite Danse Festival in 1999, is the most recognizable to the genre while performing all over the world all the way starting from Avignon Festival to Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2006, as part of an event in the Theatre Mogador of Paris, Macadam Macadam is awarded the Globes de Cristal for Best Musical. She develops her first one-woman show Zap! Zap! Zap!, which is well-loved by audiences at the Theatre national de Chaillot in Paris as well as on stage at The Kitchen in New York City in New York City’s France Moves Festival (2001).

Blanca Li Net Worth

Blanca Li is one of the richest Choreographer from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Blanca Li 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Blanca Li is originally Blanca Maria Gutierrez Ortiz (born on 12 January 1964 from Granada, Spain) is a choreographer, filmmaker as well as a dancer and actress.

While during her time in New York, she created Xoxonees along with her sister, a group of flamenco-rappers that danced with flamenco attire. They were offered a gig in Spain which led to the release of the album titled “Xoxonees” in 1989. In the mid-80s the singer-songwriter founded her first business in Madrid which she performed with at”Expo 92,” the Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992. It was also known in the form of “Expo 92”.

Highest honors in the dance world in 2001: the famous Paris Opera Ballet invites Li to create a new ballet on Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, together with Christian Lacroix as costume designer. In 2001, Blanca Li is nominated artistic director and choreographer of the Berlin Ballet at the Komische Oper Berlin in Germany, a company of 24 dancers, for whom she creates a new version of Le Songe du Minotaure, which is also performed at the Mérida Festival in Spain. Borderline is produced as world premiere by the Berlin Ballett in June

2002. In March 2003, Blanca Li creates at the Paris Opéra Bastille a choreography for William Tell, produced by Francesca Zambello. Al Andalus, featuring El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla is premiered at the Massy Opera before being performed at the Alhambra Palace for the International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada in June 2004.

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In 2009, she confirms her presence on the screen with one of the main roles of the film by Danièle Thompson, Change of Plans. Also in 2009, she directs For Her (Pour Elle), a short film with Victoria Abril for the series X Femmes (Season 2), broadcast by Canal Plus. Her second feature film as a director, Step by Step (Pas à Pas), is a documentary about the creative process of Corazon loco (theatrical release in France in January 2010). She directs the TV filmings of her shows Elektro Kif and Robot in 2013 for France Television.

Facts & Trivia

Blanca Ranked on the list of most popular Choreographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Blanca Li celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.

In March 2010, she directs and choreographs the opera Treemonisha (by Scott Joplin) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In June 2010, she stages in Spain two operas of the contemporary composer Luis de Pablo, Very Gentle and Un parque (Teatros del Canal, Madrid).