Coming Up Innovative Flamenco - Fallen from Heaven - within GIFT
International Art Festival GIFT continues and brings Spanish dancer Rocio Molina to the Griboedovi Theater stage.
Acoustic guitar, a cappella singing, distortion and a dynamic Rocío Molina nimbly twirling and ruthlessly pounding her heels. In her chrysalis dress, she shimmies and undulates into unknown territory, silently conquering the ground. Onstage she obliterates genres, playing the strutting torero, dabbling in cabaret, defying the musicians in an exhilarating duel. Breathless and exhausted, bathed in dirt and blood, this she-devil holds her own against flamenco. Unprecedented. A powerful, transgressive and unruly dance.
An innovative, iconoclastic star of new flamenco, the Spanish dancer Rocío Molina is a force of nature in this subversive, electrifying piece. Blending untamed, virtuoso flamenco with a rock concert and performance art approach, she shatters conventions as she plunges into the feminine depths of a sensual, exuberant world.
Details
SPANISH FOCUS
CAÍDA DEL CIELO (Fallen from Heaven)
Rocío Molina: artistic co-direction, choreography, musical direction.
Carlos Marquerie: artistic co-direction; dramatic art; stage space and lighting.
Eduardo Trassierra: composition of original music.
José Ángel Carmona, José Manuel Ramos “Oruco”,
Pablo Martín Jones: participation in the musical composition.
Collaborator: Elena Córdoba
Costumes design: Cecilia Molano
Costumes creation: López de Santos, Maty, Rafael Solís.
Co-produced by Chaillot – Théâtre National de la danse (Paris)
With the support of El Instituto Aragonés de Empleo (INAEM)
Reviews
“An innate talent for the most racial dance” (El Pais)
“She is like nuclear power within an atom” (STANDARD)
“One of the best Flamenco Dancers I’ve ever seen” (NEW YORK TIMES)
"It’s said of many flamenco artists that they have reinvented the form, but few have taken their reinvention as far as Rocío Molina". ( Luke Jennings, The Observer, „Rocío Molina: Fallen from Heaven review – a feminist flamenco scream“ 5/5stars)