Date: July 7-9
Location: Mercat de les Flors
The Flamenco tradition embraces the avant-garde in the performances of an artist, who on this occasion collaborates with Niño de Elche in an exploration of the nature of desire. Two of the best known names at the forefront of innovative flamenco come together in a show that is presented as an investigation and an open itinerary. Both artists perform live, accompanied by musician Pepe Benítez, violinist Maureen Choi and soprano Olalla Alemán. Also taking part in the Barcelona staging of the production is the Càrmina choir, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year.
In the new production, led by Rocío Molina, everyone talks about desire, about the human body and about the capacity it has to create images of a past that it does not understand. Desire is presented as a flow that traverses the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the material. With a title that alludes to the pictorial process of coloring the flesh, Rocío Molina addresses the tensions produced by desire, in artistic creation or in its most carnal form. Sacred and electronic music, celebration and festivity, repression and the intimate pleasure of bondage will converge.
It is the most recent creation by an artist who won the León de Plata de la Danza at the Venice Biennale in 2022, thereby becoming the first flamenco dancer to win this award, which is given to contemporary dance creations. It was awarded to her for being a “radical interpreter of traditions who expresses herself beneath the sign of contemporaneity”. This is not surprising, given that Molina – also the winner of the Positano Dance Award and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2022, and winner of the National Dance Prize in 2010 – is one of the greatest renovators on the flamenco scene.
With a long international career, this iconoclastic choreographer and restless and versatile creator is particularly popular in France, where she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. In 2008, we saw her at the Grec, participating with Belén Maya, Diana Navarro and Merche Esmeralda in the collective show Mujeres, and in 2018 she brought motherhood to the stage in the show Grito pelao, with Silvia Pérez Cruz.
Info: https://www.barcelona.cat/grec/en/show/rocio-molina
Location: Mercat de les Flors
The Flamenco tradition embraces the avant-garde in the performances of an artist, who on this occasion collaborates with Niño de Elche in an exploration of the nature of desire. Two of the best known names at the forefront of innovative flamenco come together in a show that is presented as an investigation and an open itinerary. Both artists perform live, accompanied by musician Pepe Benítez, violinist Maureen Choi and soprano Olalla Alemán. Also taking part in the Barcelona staging of the production is the Càrmina choir, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year.
In the new production, led by Rocío Molina, everyone talks about desire, about the human body and about the capacity it has to create images of a past that it does not understand. Desire is presented as a flow that traverses the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the material. With a title that alludes to the pictorial process of coloring the flesh, Rocío Molina addresses the tensions produced by desire, in artistic creation or in its most carnal form. Sacred and electronic music, celebration and festivity, repression and the intimate pleasure of bondage will converge.
It is the most recent creation by an artist who won the León de Plata de la Danza at the Venice Biennale in 2022, thereby becoming the first flamenco dancer to win this award, which is given to contemporary dance creations. It was awarded to her for being a “radical interpreter of traditions who expresses herself beneath the sign of contemporaneity”. This is not surprising, given that Molina – also the winner of the Positano Dance Award and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2022, and winner of the National Dance Prize in 2010 – is one of the greatest renovators on the flamenco scene.
With a long international career, this iconoclastic choreographer and restless and versatile creator is particularly popular in France, where she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. In 2008, we saw her at the Grec, participating with Belén Maya, Diana Navarro and Merche Esmeralda in the collective show Mujeres, and in 2018 she brought motherhood to the stage in the show Grito pelao, with Silvia Pérez Cruz.
Info: https://www.barcelona.cat/grec/en/show/rocio-molina