Rocío Molina

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Two of the best known names at the forefront of innovative flamenco come together in a show that is presented as an investigation of desire. They are accompanied by musician Pepe Benítez, violinist Maureen Choi and soprano Olalla Alemán. Also taking part in the Barcelona staging of the production is the Càrmina Choir, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Desire is presented as a flow that traverses the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the material, the past and present. With a title that alludes to the pictorial process of colouring the flesh, Rocío Molina addresses the tensions produced by desire: in artistic creation or in its most carnal form; in a piece in which sacred and electronic music; in celebration and in intimacy; repression and the forbidden pleasure of bondage.

It is the most recent creation by an artist who won the León de Plata de la Danza at the Venice Biennale in 2022, thereby becoming the first flamenco dancer to win this award, which is given to contemporary dance creations. With a long international career, this iconoclastic choreographer and restless and versatile creator is particularly popular in France, where she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. In 2008, we saw her at the Grec, participating with Belén Maya, Diana Navarro and Merche Esmeralda in the collective show Mujeres, and in 2018 she brought motherhood to the stage in the show Grito pelao, with Silvia Pérez Cruz.

You won’t want to miss her latest creation.

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