Opinion 

In Praise of Dance

Ballet at the Academy

Opinion 

In Praise of Dance

Ballet at the Academy

Luis Fernández-Galiano 
01/05/2025


On May 7, 2025, ballet teacher Elna Matamoros joined the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, marking a pioneering incorporation of dance into the world of academia. In response to her inaugural speech, Luis Fernández-Galiano praised the dancer and choreographer, and shared some thoughts on this discipline, which is so closely linked to the other arts.

It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome Elna Matamoros to this house, whose incorporation into the Royal Academy of Doctors also means, as she pointed out in her speech, the integration of dance into the Architecture and Fine Arts section. Neither this Academy nor the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts has until now welcomed into its ranks an artistic discipline of such extraordinary relevance, which in many countries is an element of national cohesion and identity as powerful as music, and whose contemporary evolution is inseparable from the avant-garde in the visual arts and architecture...[+]


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