Let’s go for ten days of fiesta in Nîmes! The Flamenco Festival began with Andrés Marín and Patricia Guerrero, at the head of the Flamenco Ballet of Andalucía.
Andrés Marín likes to push boundaries. For the opening of the festival with free access in the Carré d’art hall (first good idea of this 35th festival), he once again disrupts codes and genres, accompanied by the melodies of saxophonist Alfonso Padilla. Cubist mask, fans, parasol and short kimono, the flamenco dancer is inspired by butoh for a journey between Andalusia and the Empire of the Rising Sun. A fan of pure gesture, Andrés Marín embraces Japanese philosophy while remaining faithful to the flamenco tradition, playing with shadows for a ceremony that is by turns joyful and sepulchral.
Festival-goers then met at the Bernadette-Lafont theater for the first big evening, with the Andalucía Flamenco Ballet, which was received triumphantly. With PinedaPatricia Guerrero gives life to a heroine by Federico García Lorca, a young innocent with fresh and sacrificed beauty.
-In a disturbing atmosphere of tracking, the freedom fighters dance with impressive power, proclaiming their love, their solidarity. Violence lurks, slams, strikes. She will take her insolent heroine into a duet with Alfonso Losa. But between the ruins, a few flowers still grow. And even in hell, the flame of freedom will remain incandescent, like the talent of the young dancer and her troupe.
The festival continues with music this Friday, January 10 in Paloma, with two iconoclasts, the singer Nino de Elche and the meeting between the electric duo ZA! and today’s flamenco figure Tomas Perrate.
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