Masterclass by María Pagés

María Pagés will share with the audience the story of her life experience and will present her latest work: Óyeme con los ojos.

Free admission until full capacity is reached. Invitations may be collected at the Museum's box office.

Pagés has proven to be a pioneer in the understanding of flamenco as an evolving, contemporary and living art, using the fundamental codes of the flamenco language and researching inside and outside of it.

For this Sevillian artist, iconoclast by nature, modernity is tradition in movement. Her creative and aesthetic contribution lies in her serenity in speaking without complexes with all languages and making them accept the hospitality of flamenco.

If there is anything that can define the multifaceted creative singularity of María Pagés, it is her deep-rooted ethical sense of culture. She creates because she is convinced that art entails a profound commitment to life and memory.

"That in María Pagés dwells the genius of dance, we all know it and we proclaim it. But there is something else in this woman: she dances and, by dancing, she moves everything around her.

Neither the air nor the earth is the same after María Pagés has danced."

José Saramago

"In all the arts there is a need for a Pagés."

Roger Salas, dance critic, El País

BIOGRAPHY

María Pagés began her career in the company of Antonio Gades, whom she considers her undisputed master. In cinema, her participation in Carmen, El amor brujo y Flamencoby Carlos Saura.

In 1990 she created María Pagés Company with which she has created 19 works. The artist and her company have been invited to the most prestigious stages and festivals around the world. María Pagés has collaborated with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sidi LarbiCherkaoui, Tamara Rojo, Ángel Corella, Plácido Domingo, José Saramago and Oscar Niemeyer, among others.

In 2002 he was awarded the National Dance Prize (Creation) and the ADE Choreography Prize in 1996. She was awarded the 2004 Léonide Massine per l'Arte della Danza "Al Valore" and the Premio Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid 2007. The eight Giraldillo Awards of the Bienal de Arte Flamenco de Sevilla confirm her as one of the most important dancers and choreographers of flamenco.

In 2014 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. A year later, Santiago de Chile recognizes one of her shows as the best of International Dance and in 2016 she is awarded the IV Culture Prize of the University of Seville. The newspaper La Vanguardia chooses Óyeme con los ojos as the best international dance show of 2016.

Through ARTEDEA, an association founded by the choreographer, she develops an intense solidarity and educational activity.