Hernando’s Hideaway by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano

Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano premieres the short film “Hernando’s Hideaway” in collaboration with BalletX.

In collaboration with filmmakers Elliot deBruyn and Nathaniel Brown and performed by BalletX dancers Zachary Kapeluck, Blake Krapels and Richard Villaverde, this piece by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano features costumes by Mark Eric and lighting by Alyssandra Docherty. It was filmed on location at Philadelphia’s Glen Foerd Mansion, built in 1850 in the Italianate architecture style, and at Plays & Players Theatre.

The choreography is set to the song Hernando’s Hideaway by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler, performed by The Johnston Brothers.

It called my attention from the first moment I heard it, more than 10 years ago. After the lockdown I got BalletX’s proposal, and I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to create the work that has been in my head for so long.

—Gustavo Ramírez Sansano

About Gustavo Ramírez Sansano

Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, born in 1978 in San Fulgencio, Spain, was Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater from 2009-2013, and founded TITOYAYA with Veronica Garcia Moscardo in 2006. Sansano has been the recipient of several awards for his choreography, including first prize at the Ricard Moragas Competition in Barcelona (1997), Prix Dom Perignon Choreographic Competition in Hamburg (2001), and Premio de Las Artes Escénicas de la Comunidad Valenciana (2005). His previous commissions include Alvin Ailey, Nederlands Dans Theater, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Luzerner tanz Theater, Ballet BC, The Hamburg Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Hispánico, and Luna Negra Dance Theater, among others.

As a dancer, Sansano worked with several prestigious companies including Ballet Joven de Alicante, Ballet Contemporaneo de Barcelona, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid/Victor Ullate, Nederlands Dans Theater II, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.