The Spanish dancer Eva Yerbabuena received the Olivier Award, the most prestigious of the United Kingdom’s performing arts, in the dance category, for her Yerbagüena show, presented last year at the Sadler’s Theater Sadler’s Wells in London. Yerbabuena presented her show on June 7 and 8, 2024 in that enclosure, considered the temple of dance in the British capital, within the activities of the flamenco festival. In this way, the artist joins her name in the record of these awards for the Spanish dancer Sara Baras, who received it in 2020, in addition, there is the circumstance that Baras will act between May 27 and June 1 at this same festival, at the Sadler’s Wells. Maria Franco, upon receiving the high career award in dance on behalf of Eva Yerbabuena, poses in the winners of the Olivier 2025 Kate Green / Getty Awards, the Spanish actor Jorge Bosch was also nominated in these awards, in the category of best distribution actor for his interpretation in the Kyoto work, currently on the poster in the West End. However, the award finally went to Elliot Levey for the work Giant, which is presented at the Royal Court Theater. They were also awarded during the evening the British Imelda Staunton, who took her fifth Olivier, as best actress for her role in Hello Dolly! and the American John Lithgow as best actor for Giant.
