Diego Agudo Pinilla (Santander, 49 years old) grew up with a pencil in his hand and a sheet of paper on which to scribble. Last February, the Cantabrian artist presented part of his work at the prestigious Lincoln Center in New York.
His mother performed at La Scala in Milan, participated in the Salzburg Festival, and ran an academy in Astillero that his sister now manages. “I have always been watching dance. It is a very complicated language, but I like it a lot, explains him. In 2000, he moved to Madrid to study at an academy because he wanted to make cartoons. He quickly learned to work with digital formats and soon began to be in demand professionally. In 2002, his name stood out when he directed the animated short film Choreografa sobre la vida y la muerte. The film was nominated for the Goya in the category of best fiction short film and had an important international run. Pinilla uses a mixed technique of colored pencils and ink on paper. In addition to dancing, he has also developed several animations about sports. He is working on an animated feature and a comic based on an unpublished script by Carlos Pérez Merinero. In February, the Cantabrian returned to Lincoln Center to present a work that he had done for four years with Svetlana Zajárova, a dancer from the Bolshoi Theater, and a compilation of Spanish dance sequences. He says: "Express the character's feelings through drawings, so that you understand what he is doing. That seems like pure magic to me." For me, that recognition is success. "Dance is an art, it is clear. But this too. "Fosbury, who was called crazy because of the jump he invented, came to see the movie I made and loved it. For me, that is success."