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The antioqueño dancer, director and playwright died on Monday at his home in Medellín. For this reason it is considered a benchmark.
After surviving AIDS for 30 years, a condition that he never concealed and that on the contrary strengthened him, the health of the dancer, director and playwright Fernando Zapata began to deteriorate in the last year due to cancer. Still, creation kept him going.
From the clinic and on a stretcher from his home, he directed his latest staging, “No Danzarás”, released last week. Your friend and producer, Juan Pablo Ricaurte, He said that this text seemed like a goodbye. The creator, still convalescing, lowered his eye and replied: “But a farewell creating.”
That was Luis Fernando Zapata Abadía (1956-2020), who died on Monday around 11:20 pm at his home in the Center of Medellín, where he lived all his life. Ricaurte says that in recent days, with cancer on top and his voice muffled, he directed into the distance and through a screen gave directions to the dancers, actors and musicians.
“Due to the pandemic, we could not get him out of the house to attend the recording at the Metropolitano, but from the computer he could see everything,” says Juan Pablo about the filming of “You will not dance” at the end of November, prior to the International Dance Season, Danzamed 2020, where it premiered the first week of December.
Referrer
His first participation as an actor was for the Teatro Libre de Medellín, in “El Cuarto Poder” (1973), directed by Gilberto Martínez (1934-2017). From then on, he had a prolific career as a director, actor and dancer, especially with the groups Exfanfarria, Tacita e plata, Ateneo Porfirio Barba Jacob and the Popular School of Art. According to research on his life Where does the movement come from, soon to be published, Fernando wrote 35 dramaturgies of theater and dance-theater.
In addition to this legacy, there are several reasons why he became a benchmark. He is remembered for his role in Oh! Days, Chiqui! (1987), monologue written by Jose Manuel Freidel (1951-1990) especially for Zapata, when he was part of Exfanfarria. Today it continues to be one of the works most performed in theaters, in part because of what it meant for the gay movement and the vindication for LGBTI minorities in Medellín for decades.
Álvaro Narváez, Theater director and current secretary of Culture of Medellín, says that he will be remembered, among other reasons, because he gave his life to libertarian art. “He was a fighter for the rights of diversity … his works had a touch of irreverence and depth to speak of human existence.”
The most important contribution, he says Juan Pablo Ricaurte, was his research in dance-theater, an aesthetic search that he undertook in the 90s, and that made him become “a reference for people who wanted to venture into the performance”, comment Jaiver Jurado, director of the Medellin on Stage Association.
For his work, the Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellín paid him a tribute in the International Dance Season, Danzamed 2010, for a lifetime “a life dedicated to creation.”
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