'UPA Next', the Carmen Arranz dance school prepares to welcome a new generation

After 18 years, Carmen Arranz's school reopens its doors, and with them, Beatriz Luengo (39 years old, Madrid) returns to put herself in the shoes of Lola Fernández, a role with which she rose to fame.

With an almost shared dream, Luengo grew up hand in hand with Lola in

, a series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on Antena 3. Its 84 episodes marked a generation that has been orphaned for a few years by national productions in which baile be the centerpiece.

And at the time of the return of the series of the 2000s, after having returned his contemporary

or

with renewed proposals, it is the turn of

with

A new generation of dancers of new actors, with the participation of some of the protagonists of the first promotion, will be in charge of taking over from UPA Dance.

The return was celebrated this Thursday, July 14, with a party at the Larra journalism laboratory, in the center of Madrid, which was also broadcast on the Twitch platform.

Between dances and choreographies, the stars of the new season have been presented.

Some of them were not even born when the series was broadcast, but inside and outside the shooting, they will have the support of Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Mónica Cruz and Luengo herself, who confesses at the party that she is still excited by the news.

So much so, that she admits that she began to cry as she watched the recording set.

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“It's very strong, I'm still getting my bearings,” says Luengo, “I think it's something we thought was going to happen, but deep down I've realized it wasn't.

And it's also a bit weird because the series here ended at one point, but it continued for us for a few more years all over Europe.

I finished promoting her with the team in 2009, in Germany for the last time, so for me it's not that long ago.

A long time ago, but to me when they tell me that 20 years have passed it seems like a lot, I have to think that here in Spain it ended in 2004 [where it registered an average audience of 3.6 million viewers], but in my head it ended later, and in my heart it never ended.”

The promotion of

took so long because it became a highly exported product both in Europe and in Latin America, becoming one of the first Spanish productions to achieve that level of impact.

“Mónica Cruz and I talked about it and we said 'but why doesn't

come back ?

Don't they realize that, with all my respect to everything

, it's the first international export series so

?

It is that we arrived at the airports and the police had to take us away, because the series was broadcast on the public channels of the countries dubbed in their languages ​​of origin.

That people in Germany thought he spoke German.

And we said 'but why don't they see it?'

So much so that, after much discussion, the leading couple drew up a plan to force Atresmedia to return to

.

“Mónica and I proposed an unreal leak that the series was coming back, and one day we said 'come on, let's jump into the pool'.

So I put on Twitter that a lap was being talked about.

Then suddenly she called us to El Hormiguero so that we could go there exclusively to tell a lap that we had invented. ”

The news was fed back and, when the Day of the Innocents arrived, they agreed to publish the news in a magazine to see the repercussion.

The news ended up reaching the ears of the producers, who called Luengo to ask him what was happening.

The reason for the call?

Atresmedia was already working on a relaunch of the series, and his real fear was that someone from the team had leaked it to the actors.

That is, one way or another,

was destined to return.

In this new stage, the three main characters —who will not have Pablo Puyol— will be the teachers after Rober, played by Muñoz, returns from the United States to relaunch the school.

Now they are the ones who will have to instruct the new talents: “It's strange, seeing the boys shocks me because I still see myself, because I'm a super dreamer, and at the same time I see myself with my children and say 'oysters'.

There's a mental

I have to do that I haven't done yet.

Maybe I never do it, but it's nice because on a vital level I feel like I'm in a circle that somehow closes or opens something.

It is very rare but very beautiful too.”

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