Rocío Molina

"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of today.

L'un des défis les plus captivants de l’histoire du flamenco moderne : la création du nouveau spectacle de la danseuse et chorégraphe espagnole Rocío Molina pour le Théâtre National de Chaillot à Paris. Premier Prix National de danse à l’âge de 26 ans et danseuse étoile mondialement reconnue à 30 ans, Rocío Molina repousse sans relâche les limites du Flamenco traditionnel. Preuve de sa modernité sans concession, ses improvisations (Impulsos) sont un exercice inédit. IMPULSO explore ce qui fait de Rocío Molina une danseuse hors norme, l’enfant terrible du flamenco moderne : la transgression systématique des règles, sa recherche permanente du point de rupture y compris avec son corps, et sa façon très personnelle de questionner la condition féminine au XXIème siècle.

La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death) is a multichannel sound and film installation conceived as a site-specific work for MACBA’s Capella. It explores poetic themes of Carmen, particularly as her myth is entangled with the performative fields of flamenco and bullfighting. Like the opera composed by Georges Bizet, these fields evoke the spectacle of death and implicate the spectator as a part of it. This work brings the ritual performance of death (real and imagined) into a conversation with cinema, which bears its own murderous traditions.

At the age of eighty-two, Carrete wants to fulfil a dream before the end of his career as a dancer: to perform in a great theatre in New York. Despite his tireless enthusiasm, his health tells him that his days as a flamenco master are coming to an end. His art saved him from starvation and the cinemas sheltered him from the cold during the Spanish post-war period. And it was on the big screen that he met his admired Fred Astaire, who settled in his imagination as a fantasy to aspire to. And as he awaits his long-awaited American adventure, Carrete looks back on his past. Joaquín, one of his sons, who was a talented guitarist and whose hopes were dashed by prison, wants to play again. Father and son try to find each other again, while the mirage of the giant skyscrapers fades away, revealing the reality.