Turn, heart! Dancing with Lorca in the Silver Age. Carmen Cortés Company

6 MAY / 19:30H

Turn, my heart!
Dancing with Lorca in the Silver Age
Carmen Cortés Company

75 minutes
30€ y 32€

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Carmen Cortés returns to Lorca in this show with more than a dozen dancers and dancers, and eight live musicians. Flamenco roots and new languages to approach the soul and words of the poet. To find Lorca in a game of mirrors that can be shared by very different eyes and ears, that can be completed in the eyes of all.  

There is a popular Lorca and an impossible Lorca, but they are the same. There is a Lorca of gypsy roots and a Lorca of New York, but they are the same. There is a Lorca who was the joy of any place he entered, the laughter, the music; and there is a tragic Lorca, transited by a dark melancholy, by a mortal wound. But they are the same. The Carmen Cortés Company wants to approach from the dance to all those men so different that Federico García Lorca left in his words. The avant-garde poet and playwright; the one who sang martinetes with a hoarse and dark voice; the friend of the Argentinita, of Alberti, of Sánchez Mejías, of Neville, of Morla; the devoted admirer of Manuel Torres, the Niño de Jerez; the one who perhaps crossed the Plaza de Santa Ana one day to see a 14-year-old gypsy girl at the Villa Rosa, named Carmen Amaya; the tormented author of El público, of Poeta en Nueva York, of sonnets and gazelles.

SYNOPSIS

We witness a dream of Federico: he dreams of a flamenco party prepared for him by his friends, La Argentinita and Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. While they wait for his arrival, they dance the sevillanas of the 18th century that Argentinita and Federico recorded in 1931. They are interrupted by a young woman who has come with the flamencos: Carmen Amaya dances a soleá. The sevillanas party continues, to which Ignacio Sánchez Mejías arrives. The bullfighter dances sevillanas with Argentinita and asks the flamencos to sing Yerma's romería. When they are finishing, Federico finally arrives at the party. They have prepared many surprises for him: a famous song by Argentinita "Cádiz tacita de plata"; the young Carmen Amaya dances "el embrujo del fandango"; and again a hit by Argentinita, "Testamento gitano". In the midst of the joy, Federico recalls the anguish of his days in New York. They dance to the sound of "La aurora" from Poeta en Nueva York. The melancholy is broken by the appearance of Argentinita dancing her alegrías. They have also prepared the moment when they met, "El maleficio de la mariposa".

Federico recalls that the same dreamy images were in his Romancero gitano. Before our eyes, the nuns live their minutes of rest and restlessness with "La monja gitana". Finally, Federico reads to his friends the play he has just written, El público. The four horses appear and are transformed into Pampanos and Cascabeles, while Juliet and the Black Horse meet. To the amazement of those present at the strangeness of the play, Federico changes the subject and recalls the lecture on bullfighting given by Sánchez Mejías in New York. Federico dreams of Ignacio's bullfight, the pasodoble, the bullfight and the death of the bullfighter, with the evocation of the "Romance de Ronda". The peones remove Ignacio's body and the Soleá, with verses from Poema del cante jondo, expresses Argentinita's pain. One of the singers consoles her with a song from the album he recorded with Federico, the Nana de Sevilla, "Este galapaguito no tiene madre...", which takes us to the end of the dream.

CREATIVE TEAM

Choreographic and Artistic Direction: Carmen Cortés
Dramaturgy and Stage Direction: José Ramón Fernández and Carmen Cortés
Musical Direction: Gerardo Núñez
Music: Gerardo Núñez, Mariano Díaz, Zigalet y Enrique Morente
Costume Design: Tony Benítez and Isabel Núñez
Costume Design: Miguel
Lighting Design: Ion Anival
Sound Design: Carlos González
Audiovisual Design: Bruno Praena
Photographs: Isabel Muñoz, Nathalie Goux and Pablo Lorente

CAST

Carmen Cortés
Daniel Navarro
Gonzalo Diaz
Rosa Zaragoza
Jessica Russo
Cristina Camacho
Mª Pilar Diaz
Aroa Pazos
Clara Checa
Irene Moreno
Covadonga Guerra
Diego Aguilar
Alvaro Tomeno
Marcos Diaz
Daniel Arencibia
Sara Elisa Sanchez
Sandra Garcia
Antonio Carbonell (Singing)
Antonio Moreno (Vocals)
María Mezcle (Vocals)
Rafael Serrano (Percussion)
Luis Miguel Manzano (Guitar)
Álvaro Martinete (Guitar)
Jony Giménez (Guitar)
Pedro Ojesto (Piano)

CARMEN CORTÉS

Dancer, choreographer and artistic director. Graduated in Dance by Real Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Madrid. Master in Performing Arts from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Member of the Dance Council of UNESCO.

Carmen Cortés, born in Barcelona of Andalusian parents, is one of the most internationally prestigious dancers in Spanish dance today. Her dance is temperamental, fast and furious, it is the flamenco dance of the old school, with a feeling and a very personal vision. In her choreographies one can appreciate the essence of Mario Maya's flamenco, nervous, alive, electric, letting herself be carried away by the time, the beat, the percussion of the zapateados, and her braceo that she uses like no one else to express and dance the silences.

She defines herself essentially as a "bailaora", but without renouncing in any way to other forms of creation within dance and theater, through a constant concern for renewal and the encounter between flamenco and other ways and ways of understanding dance.

Carmen's art has managed to combine a duality that is difficult to achieve in the world of flamenco today. Her dance, being authentic and orthodox, coexists perfectly with the most innovative proposals. Her conception of dance is fiercely independent, always looking for creation.

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