"After you, ma'am
" Paula Comitre

Saturday, October 3, 2026
19:30 h
20, 22, and 24€
MUN Theatre

*Après vous, madame* stems from a desire to explore the figure of Antonia Mercé “La Argentina”—one of the great figures of Spanish dance and flamenco—from a contemporary perspective. It is a piece about the importance of tradition in society’s cultural expression.

*Après vous, madame* is the result of a process of study and research, combined with the enriching musical and interdisciplinary exchange that Paula Comitre has engaged in during her stay at the Cité des Arts in Paris. The work sets out to revitalize the figure of *La Argentina* in a performance that harmonizes tradition and the avant-garde, drawing on other artistic disciplines such as voice and text, as well as various creators from the current European scene. In this way, the undisputed figure of La Argentina is brought to life on stage once again, serving as the starting point for this encounter with contemporary creation.

On stage, Paula Comitre’s dance, the textile work of artist María Alcaide—inspired by the original drawings of Bacarisas or by contemporary artists such as Prada Poole—and the contemporary piano music of French composer Orlando Bass come together in dialogue, with a significant focus on the legacy of the Spanish musical repertoire by well-known composers such as Falla, Joaquín Nin, Albéniz, and Granados, among others.

*Après vous, madame* explores the intersection of the arts and presents a performance piece in which spatial lines take center stage, creating an interplay between inhabited space and emptiness, between space and movement.
 

Artistic data

• Direction, choreography, and original concept: Paula Comitre
• Dramaturgical and staging consultation: La Ejecutora (Fran Pérez Román and Julio León Rocha)
• Visual artist who created the piece *Bata de cola inflable*: María Alcaide
• Music by: Orlando Bass
• Outside Perspective: David Coria
• Lighting design: Benito J. Jiménez
• Sound Design: Ángel Olalla
• Musician: Orlando Bass
• Dance: Paula Comitre

Paula Comitre

Born in Seville in 1994, Comitre earned a degree in Flamenco Dance from the Seville Professional Dance Conservatory in 2012 and a degree in Flamenco Dance Pedagogy from the Malaga Higher Conservatory in 2019. She was a member of the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, she began her solo career, making her debut at Tablao Flamenco Los Gallos, and that same year she joined David Coria’s company and Rafaela Carrasco’s company as a solo dancer and choreographer.

In 2020, she premiered her first solo show, *Cámara Abierta*, at the 24th Festival de Jerez, where she won the festival’s Best New Artist Award. That same year, she joined the cast of ¡Fandango! by David Coria & David Lagos as a rehearsal assistant and dancer—a production co-produced by the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris—and premiered Artomático’s Electroflamenco 3.0 at the Seville Flamenco Biennial, where she received the Giraldillo Award for Best New Artist.

In 2021, he created *Cuerpo Nombrado*, a small-scale production with which he has performed at numerous theaters and festivals, such as the London Flamenco Festival and the Soustons Flamenco Art Festival.

In 2022, he premiered his third show, *Alegorías (El límite y sus mapas)* (Allegories: The Limit and Its Maps), at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, in a co-production with that theater and in collaboration with contemporary dancer Lorena Nogal. This project was also featured in the Cannes Dance Festival and the Nîmes Flamenco Festival.

In 2023, she received a scholarship from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris to undertake a five-month creative residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts to launch her fourth project, *Après vous, Madame*.

Orlando Bass

1994. French pianist, harpsichordist, and composer of British origin. He studied piano with Roger Muraro, chamber music with Itamar Golan, accompaniment with Jean-Frédéric Neuburguer, and composition with Thierry Escaich at the Paris Conservatory. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Kirill Gerstein.

In 2018, he released an album of Preludes and Fugues for solo piano with Indésens, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2019, he received an award from the Fondation Banque Populaire, which actively supports him in his diverse and varied projects, both as a performer and as a composer.

In 2020, a double album featuring his own compositions and those of Olivier Penard will be released by Dux. His catalog includes numerous chamber music and piano works, various orchestral and concert pieces, and two operas. He has begun a series of pieces titled *Veränderungen*—metamorphoses of works from the past—for various ensembles.

He regularly accompanies silent films with live improvisation. The modern and contemporary repertoire—which he frequently performs as a soloist and chamber musician—resonates deeply with him, leading him to create new works without neglecting the more classical repertoire, always striving to connect the present with the past in some way.