The Flamenco festival takes place in Nîmes from Thursday January 9 to Saturday January 18, bringing together the biggest stars of the discipline.
The success cannot be denied and when we see the program for this 35th Flamenco Festival offered from this Thursday, January 9 by the Nîmes theater, this is understandable. If the festival has taken on this scale, it is also because it accompanied the emergence of a generation which revolutionized flamenco, propelling it onto the biggest stages from Chaillot to the main courtyard of the Popes’ Palace. .
20 years ago, Israel Galván danced The golden agepaying homage to the singing cafés with a modern and founding gesture which earned it the nickname of “Nijinski du flamenco”. The renovator resumes this show on Tuesday January 14, now a classic of the contemporary repertoire, with a new cast, María Marín on vocals and Rafael Rodriguez on guitar.
A marathon Rocío Molina
Other festival regulars are back to blow out this 35th candle, starting with the immense Rocío Molina. In 2020, the dancer began research in the small room of the Odéon around the guitar in the form of a trilogy. Today, the fan of extreme experiences (she danced 7 months pregnant!) resumes the three episodes in a row this Sunday, January 12, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., accompanied by Rafael Riqueni for Home (One)young Oscar Lago and Yerai Cortés for To the Bottom Riela (The Other of One) and Yerai Cortés for Return to One.
Finally, the festival presents a spotlight on Andrés Marín, a devotee welcomed to Nîmes for the first time in 2007. A fan of encounters with other cultures, he opens the cycle this Thursday at the end of the afternoon with a free show at Carré art, An air of signs in the company of La Argentia and Japanese buto pioneer Kazuo Ohno. Saturday 11, with Straight and Aloneit pays homage to a historical figure who redefined masculine codes at the beginning of the 20th century, Vicente Escudero. Finally, Wednesday the 15th, he revisits the Divine Comedy of Dante, with Matarife / Paradisewith Ana Morales.
Three times Andrés Marín
This revival has also propelled the flamboyant Patricia Guerrero to the head of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, who is presenting this Thursday 9, Pinedaode to freedom according to García Lorca. Modernity is already at work in music, since the 80s. It continues today with Niño de Elche who will share the Paloma stage this Friday 10 with the duo ZA! +Perrate. On the program, guitar, electro, experimentation and subversive flamenco! Tomás Perrate will also present an acoustic recital with guitarist Emilio Caracafé on Saturday 11, in the privacy of the Museum of Fine Arts. Because for all these artists, looking forward does not preclude learning about heritage.
Thursday 16, guitarist Antonio Rey performs his latest opus Stories of a Flamenco. Friday the 17th, the young choreographer Rafael Ramirez, spotted alongside David Coria, unveils his Chronicle of an eventtribute to Antonio Gades. The singer María Terremoto, who carries flamenco in her veins, presents her ManifestFriday 17. For Carmen takes a breakSaturday 18, the British Yinka Esi Graves also tackles a myth. With Dance for guitarSaturday 18, the Estévez Paños duo also wanders through the eras.
The French scene is also present, with Solea my neighborchildren’s show by Maria Pérez Wednesday 15, the Concerto in 37 1/2 from the brilliant Ana Pérez on Thursday 16 or the guitarist Gregorio Ibor-Sánchez who played alongside the greatest and returns on Sunday 12 with singers Paco Santiago and El Misto.
Finally a promise, a big promise even! Last year, Paula Comitre blew everyone away with her lightness and elegance. She’s back Saturday the 18th, with Alter Egoand takes the place of the great Patricia Guerrero for this duo with Alfonso Losa.
