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Afanador comes to Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía on 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th June, with a show which combines traditional Spanish dance with modern styles for a surrealist work: so we can see the world of flamenco through a distorting lens.
The work premièred at Teatro de la Maestranza in 2023. It subsequently premièred at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Mira in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Teatros de Canal in Madrid and now Ballet Nacional de España is presenting it again at Les Arts in Valencia.
This work is inspired by the imagination of Ruven Afanador, a Colombian photographer who fell in love with Andalusia and flamenco, making them his home and a source of inspiration for some of his most celebrated works, such as his books Ángel Gitano and Mil Besos.
It is the characters in these photographs that fascinated and moved Marcos Morau, responsible for the idea and artistic direction, to create this new work.
For Marcos Morau, his starting point was “thinking about Ruven Afanador’s world, dreaming about him and all his dreamlike deformations: seeing the world of flamenco through a distorting lens, a lens which belongs to the world of sleep, desire, memory.”
Afanador guides us through a gallery of images that weave together the threads of the past and present, where Spanish dance meets contemporary dance, where the black and white of photography prevail in a dramatic contrast that transforms the costumes and sets – designed by Silvia Delagneau and Max Glaenzel – into waterfalls, avalanches and storms. We are confronted by a surrealist work that subverts the familiar, transforming the reassuring elements of tradition into strange and unrecognisable ones.
The choreography was created by Marcos Morau himself, Lorena Nogal, Shay Partush, Jon López, and Miguel Ángel Corbacho, assistant director of the Ballet Nacional de España. Large lassos, gallows and long trains accompany the musical composition created by Juan Cristobal Saavedra “Equipo”, with the special collaboration of singer and composer Maria Arnal. This journey through worlds that dance on the borders of dreams, death and life is guided by playwright Roberto Fratini Serafide, with audiovisual design by Marc Salicrú and lighting design by Bernat Jansà.
“Afanador is a work that takes a sacred legacy and juxtaposes it with our time and everything that has changed since then. It is a work of rigor, beauty and mystery: because it is only when we mix past and present that we can truly discover truths and launch ourselves into the present. This is what Afanador aims to do: respect the legacy of the past, mix it with our present and then launch it towards into the future.” Marcos Morau
Programme:
AFANADOR
Ballet Nacional de España
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Valencia)
Thursday 27th June 2024, at 19:30
Friday 28th June 2024, at 19:30
Saturday 29th June 2024, at 19:00
Sunday 30th June 2024, at 19:00
