Risk is intended to halt the loss of talent national socialists and members of royalty are moving again, but private funding is Spain to try to imitate the success of Britain's Royal Ballet by establishing a national ballet company to exploit a well of talented dancers who have been forced abroad.

Tamara Rojo, principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, says that is intended as the new artistic director of a company that is backed by everyone from the royal family of Spain to the Socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

The country is unique in western Europe in not having a national ballet company.

Although Red, denied yesterday that he had accepted the post of artistic director with the new company, which he admitted having participated in the project.

"The idea is there, but will take time," he told The Guardian. "Nothing will happen immediately. Things were done well."

She said the plan was to follow the model of British ballet companies like the Royal Ballet and Rambert.

"We've been working there for months," said Manuel Robles, the mayor of Fuenlabrada, aThe dormitory town of Madrid, to be the new home of the national ballet company.

He said that it was both red and Alicia Alonso, founder and director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, which also has a dance institute at a university in the city. One million euros (680,000) had intended to build a new school and a small theater company in Fuenlabrada.

"We have also offered the Alicia Alonso Institute Tamara Rojo and use our own great theater town," he said.

Reports in Spain suggested yesterday that the Red, 31, will continue to dance with the Royal Ballet while helping run what would become Spain's public classical dance company.

She danced many of the classics at Covent Garden, Giselle and Juliet in the dual role of Odette and Odile in Lake Cisna. The newspaper El Mundo reported that it had passed 70% of his time in Spain, provided they can reach an agreement with the Royal Ballet.

Alonso, now 85 years old and nearly blind, has expressed his despair at the lack of a ballet company in Spain, saying: "I really do not understand why - there are dancers, teachers and many ppeople who want to see. "

The company, with a 65-strong dance troupe, would receive 15% of the funds of the State, with other sponsors, sales and marketing, told El Mundo.

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