The seven absolute premieres of the second week of Suma Flamenca of the Community of Madrid give a good account of the purposes of the 20th edition of this art festival jondo to express the creative coexistence between tradition and avant-garde. Begona Castro y Kelian Jimenez from the dance, Gregory Moya, Guadiana, Mary Toledo y Theresa Hernandez at the cante y Losada Pine On the guitar they show the vigor of the roots and contemporary forms to advance the flamenco.
The shows premiered by these seven artists are among the 19 shows being shown this second week, from October 21 to 26, at venues in Madrid, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, La Cabrera, and Rascafría.
Three haikus for Lorca, the first of the premieres (Teatros del Canal, October 22), was born from the intimate bond of the Granada dancer Begona Castro with the author of Gypsy romance, a constant presence since her childhood. Inspired by the essence of the Japanese poetic form known as haiku, the work is composed of three pieces: Twilight (Tasogare), Life (Inochi) and Presence (Sonzaikan). In them are intertwined flamenco and butoh (Japanese theatrical manifestation), the shadow and the invisible beauty, death as a transition and life as a light dream.
The dance of Kelian Jimenez one dreams in the universe of Charlie. Gipsy dream. We are all Chaplin (Sierra Norte Regional Humanities Center of La Cabrera, October 25) is inspired by the film The Great Dictator, which the English director and actor premiered in the midst of World War II, 1940. Through this link, the Madrid dancer carries out a vindication of the Roma people.
Four voices of the cante currently they also premiere Suma Flamenca. Theresa Hernandez reaches in Romances of the Wounded Voice (Teatros del Canal, October 25) her own voice, in the midst of the creation process of her first album, open to innovation, the avant-garde. The singer of La Línea de la Concepción (1992) will accompany herself on guitar, along with fellow guitarist The Movie, and the Australian percussionist Nasrine Rahmani.
Like Hernandez, Mary Toledo He is also accompanied by his own instrument, the piano, and offers his most personal vision of the work at the Teatro de La Abadía on October 25th. flamenco Two pianos and two palmasDrawing on the essence and purity of flamenco, the pianist will unleash her innovative spirit, showcasing her personality and experience as a singer.
The affinity of Gregory Moya Enrique Morente It is not merely admiration or devotion to the genius from Granada, but almost mimetic in the voice. With them, the most recent winner of the Lámpara Minera de la Unión has built morente always (Teatros del Canal, October 26), a tribute and remembrance of that tutelary figure of the flamenco twentieth century.
«The seven absolute premieres of the second week of Suma Flamenca of the Community of Madrid fully reflect the objectives of the 20th edition of this art festival. jondo to express the creative coexistence between tradition and avant-garde"
The purity and depth of the flamenco sprout in Silver horseshoes, an intimate and Antonio Suárez Salazar "Guadiana"In this show that premieres at Teatros del Canal on October 23, Guadiana covers his extensive artistic career, where each cante It is an echo of his Extremadura roots and an emotional tribute to his family, the legendary Porrina, and his brother, Ramon the Portuguese.
In an instrumental aspect, the guitarist Losada Pine exemplifies in Confluence(Teatros del Canal, October 24) that interweaving of tradition and avant-garde. Losada traces a sonic journey from the deepest roots of flamenco traditional to its most contemporary and conceptual forms. Through each piece, the artist explores palos classics of flamenco such as soleá, seguiriya or bulería, to then blur their boundaries and delve into current fusions, open harmonies and new textures.
Other shows
Beyond the major premieres of Suma Flamenca, the festival offers an attractive array of shows, most of them premieres in the Community of Madrid. We review them below: The Pianist Andres Barrios undertakes in From Utrera to Chamberí (Teatros del Canal, October 21) a musical journey, in which the piano flamenco It builds a bridge between Andalusian roots and music such as jazz, classical and world music.
The Pele (Teatro de la Abadía, October 21) makes another trip, but this one to the root of flamenco y David PaloMar evokes in One Hundred Times Pearl (Abbey Theatre, October 22) Pearl of Cadiz when it is one hundred years since the birth of the famous singer from Cadiz.
In this last scenario, the next day, the singer Jesus Mendez walks through classic terrain in I want to sing to you y David Carpio reflects on his artistic career in Caminos JondosWhile Hope Fernandez (Paco Rabal Cultural Center, October 24) invites the audience of Corazones de agua to immerse themselves in the universe of the creators of the flamenco who bequeathed this unique heritage in the world.
Flamenco cartography cannot be understood without Extremadura, the birthplace of stylistic contributions such as jaleos and tangos, and of great figures such as Porrinas. Suma Flamenca commemorates this contribution in Vengo de mi Extremadura, which brings together the singer at the Paco Rabal Cultural Center on October 25 kaita and the singer Alejandro Vega, the guitarists Miguel y Juan Vargas and the percussionist Joshua Porrina. On that same stage, but a day later, the singer Antonio Reyes, arrives at the Vallecas neighborhood from his hometown (Chiclana de la Frontera) to take a tour of the cantes most common in their repertoire in Vallecas de la Frontera.
Outside the capital
Outside the capital, in addition to the premiere of Kelian Jimenez, the Sierra Norte Regional Humanities Center of La Cabrera hosts on October 24 Mary of the O, where the dancer Alba Heredia It captures one of the most popular jewels of the flamenco, immortalized by the great Carmen amaya, to claim the triumph of love.
At the Royal Theatre Coliseo Carlos III in San Lorenzo de El Escorial the dancer Karime Amayaputs on stage in Counterpoint a conversation between the guitar, the cante and the dance (October 24), and the guitarist Daniel Casares (October 25) praises The power of the subtle, a song inspired by her daughter that champions those things that are big “for our hearts, even if they are small for our senses.”
And in the Royal Monastery El Paular de Rascafría (October 26), Joseph the Marquis, the first artist to compose and perform flamenco with the cello as soloist, presents Cello flamenco, a flamenco suite for solo cello.
