Federico García Lorca wrote Mariana Pineda “when he was barely twenty, and with a strong romantic flavour”, as he said in an interview on the occasion of its première in 1927. Of all the Marianas that could possibly exist, we have chosen the one invoked by Lorca: “A woman with deep Spanish roots, who sings the verse of her life to love and freedom in such a way that it acquires the concept of universality of those two great feelings,” “freedom itself”.

In her debut as director of the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet, Granada-born Patricia Guerrero takes on the challenge of giving body and soul to Pineda. A version in which she explores all the spiritual and expressive power of Lorca’s dramatic poem. Accompanied by an extraordinary team,

Patricia Guerrero presents us with a vibrant and lively Pineda, born in Granada yet universal and decidedly flamenco. A dramatic poem danced because, again in the words of Federico, “the stage cannot be anything other than emotion and poetry: in the words, in the actions and in the gestures.”

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