Heidrun Ehret-Vogt
"La Morena"
The dancer and choreographer of the Freiburg Flamenco Ensemble El Jaleo, began her flamenco dance training in Spain during her music studies, which she completed in 1986 at the Freiburg University of Music.
Renowned flamenco artists such as Mercedes Leon (Madrid), Angelita Gomez, El Grilo, Fernando Belmonte (Jerez de la Frontera), Javier Baron (Madrid/Sevilla) and Manolo Marín (Sevilla) shaped her powerful, rhythmically sophisticated and aesthetic dance style.
She also learned artistic concert castanet playing from the great dancer and castanet virtuoso José de Udaeta.
She made a name for herself as a choreographer through numerous productions, both for herself with the ensemble El Jaleo and for all her dance classes, in engagements including those at the Freiburg City Theatre and for dancers from other disciplines. She choreographed the flamenco passages of pasodobles for many Latin competitive dancers, such as Christian Polanc and Melissa Ortiz-Gomez, world champions Hans-Peter Galke, Bianca Schreiber, and Holger Nitsche, whose students she taught flamenco/pasodoble at his dance academy.
In her dance, La Morena feels a deep connection to traditional flamenco, which has lost none of its relevance in Spain and continues to be carried on by young dancers and musicians. She doesn't see herself as a purist, however – her experimental spirit has allowed her and her husband, Thomas Vogt, to create extraordinary works that incorporate various styles of flamenco, such as her own successful dance series "Fusiones," the acclaimed choreographies of her project class, including, to name just a few, "Carcelera," "Un poco Loco," and "Circulo Eterno," and her interdisciplinary workshop projects "2020" and "Fragilidad."
La Morena continually finds new inspiration through further training with young flamenco artists such as Karen Lugo, Isabel Munoz, Alvaro Sarabia, and many others. In 2022, she founded the duo "Paliano" together with her daughter, pianist Rebecca Vogt, as a new project.