Flamenco

Tuesday, October 10, 2000 20:00     University of Macau     100

PROGRAM

1. Rhythm
Choreography Alberto Lorca
Music Jose Nieto
Costume Design Pin Morales, Roman Arango
Costume Making Juanita Muro, Gonzalez
Dancing Shoes Gallardo
Light Design Freddy Gerlache

Pure dance without any plot is visual enjoyment. The rhythmic heel tapping, the vibrant pirouettes and the characteristic castanets form a dance full of sound and movement.

2. Message
Choreography Aida Gomez
Music Vicente Amigo
Costume Design Aida Gomez
Costume Making Maty
Light Design Carlos Guerrero, Rafael Yunta

To the music by the composer Vicente Amigo, four female dancers with their attractive movement display a female world full of sensuality and vitality.

3. Light of Soul (Folk Music)
Choreography Javier Latorre
Costume Design Aida Gomez
Costume Making Maty
Light Design Nicolas Fischel

With rhythm of soul, pure sentiment, warmth, passion and sadness, the choreographer shows another way for flamenco, and 20 young dancers explain all of their force and rhythm in the traditional folk music.

4. Silence Is Broken
Choreography Aida Gomez
Music Jorge Pardo
Costume Design Ana Lacoma, Ismael Aznar
Light Design Germinal
Silence is broken
And the paper is torn and the pen riven
When ink touches the theme of love.
When the sun is rising,
The moon is divided into two.
Nothing but the sun can replace the sun,
Nothing but love can explain love.
Verse by the sufi poet Rumi

Intermission
5. Oripando
Choreography Adrian Galia, Israel Galvan, Isabel Bayon, Currillo
Music Diego Franco & Ballet Nacional de Espana
Costume Design Ana Lacoma, Devota & Lomba
Light Design Florencio Sanchez, Carlos Guerrero, Rafael Yunta
Dancing Shoes Gallardo

First Appearance September 17th 1999, Fukuoka Sun Palace Theatre (Japan)

Rhythm, colour, movement and definitively art and magic in this piece created by four young choreographers, which goes briefly through the different types of Flamenco, the coming millennium without it lasting tradition in any moment.

Spanish National Ballet