SEASON 08-09
- 25 / 26 OCT
- 09 DEC
- 13 MAR
- 24 MAR
- 15 / 16 MAY
COMPAÑÍA DE DANZA FLAMENCA CARMEN CORTÉS
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Mujeres de Lorca (Lorca’s Women)
Choreography Carmen Cortés
Playwriting Tomás Afán
Music David Cerreduela
Dancers Laura Cantero, Silvia Rincón, Carmen Lozano, Virginia Murcia,
Tamar González, Anabel Veloso and Fernanda Borria
Musicians Jesús de Rosario, Iván Losada, Guadiana, Salvador Barrull, Charo Manzano, Carmen Carmona and Ángel Sánchez “Cepillo”
Musical Director Faustino Núñez
Stage Director Fernando Bernués
Flamenco dancer Carmen Cortés (Barcelona, 1958) steps into the shoes of six of the best-known female characters of Granada’s playwright and poet Federico García Lorca. Mujeres de Lorca (Lorca’s Women), which opened at the last Bienal de Flamenco in Seville, translates into the language of flamenco works such as La casa de Bernarda Alba, Yerma or Mariana Pineda because, “it is the women who move the pages of Lorca’s theatre, the men are just sitting on the lines or walking between them. It is the women who breathe life into the pages for one to follow the other. It is the women who, with the wind of their passion, cause the pages to take flight and come to life. And it is from their passionate veins that the red ink flows, filling with truth the poet’s best verses. Lorca’s women move, and in their feet is the geography of pleasure and pain. Their shoes are atlases that hold continents of feeling. Chronicles of journeys to the soul, these are the footprints of their footsteps.”
With no specific argument, each character is linked to a palo or flamenco style. Thus, Bernarda Alba moves to the time of seguirillas and martinetes, Yerma does so to the rhythm of granaínas and tarantos, the Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife dances to tanguillos, Mariana Pineda dances to soleares and jaleos… “The word turned muscle dances, spelling all of life’s articulations. The vowels and consonants look at each other in silence and suddenly break out in dance, in unison; the vowels and the consonants dance and, in their choreography, they come together, forming the words of these universal women. Mujeres de Lorca... Lorca’s women.”
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