Paraíso de los negros is a flamenco choreography that takes as its own sap the essence of Poeta en Nueva York by Federico García Lorca and the novel of the same title by Carl Van Vechten.
Blackness is here a semantically complicit echo where the same eternal conflicts that hold Humanity hostage by its own asymmetrical nature resound.
Paraíso de los negros is a work about the perpetual search for happiness. It explores the human limits and limitations that, taking the appearance of different faces, muddy and contaminate the path of the right to desire; it examines the figures and appearances, always liquid and ungraspable, that embark the breath of free will and dialogues with the barriers that are imposed like a guillotine on the neck of utopias or as images, thoughts and feelings that rise like unstoppable walls to make the Other invisible. The Other as an extension of desire and not as an enemy. Here, the Lorca principle of freedom is a bird trapped in a twig smeared with glue.
Paraíso de los negros is a flamenco work built around choreography, music, singing, lighting, scenery, costumes and a dramaturgical story that narrates the tension generated by limits, limitations, frontiers and real and symbolic threats and corralling and their consequent violence on the human conscience.
The rhythm of the work seeks the tranquility of the balance of the desired common home. But it is inspired by the arrhythmia, anomalies, disorder and asymmetry that generate the existential anguish that leads people to claim life and coexistence as our inviolable fundamental rights.
Paraíso de los negros is a Bedouin carpet designed by wise old women. The ethical and aesthetic components that structure it are woven by an organic semantic and emotional connivance. This deep complicity weaves its principles and the symbologies on which it is based, always seeking the longed-for conciliation of the 1.
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Cast
María Pagés Dance
Singer
Ana Ramón
Sara Corea
Guitar
Rubén Levaniegos
Chelo
Sergio Menem
Violin
David Moñiz
Percussion
Chema Uriarte
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Artistic team
DIRECTION
María Pagés and El Arbi El Harti
CHOREOGRAPHY, MUSICAL DIRECTION AND COSTUME DESIGN
María Pagés
DRAMATURGY AND LYRICS
El Arbi El Harti
MUSIC
Rubén Levaniegos / David Moñiz / Sergio Menem
LIGHTING DESIGN
Pau Fullana
SOUND DESIGN
Enrique Cabañas
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Technical team
TECHNICAL COORDINATION AND LIGHTING
Pau Fullana
SOUND
Enrique Cabañas
REGISTRY
Nacho Giménez
PRODUCTION
Mamen Adeva
COMMUNICATION
Hasna El Harti
Production
María Pagés Choreographic Center
Coproduction
María Pagés Foundation
Grec Festival de Barcelona
Production Support
Fuenlabrada City Council
Festival de Jerez
Project carried out with the support of the Madrid City Council‘s program of aid for creation and mobility.
Show sponsored by the Community of Madrid.
FUNCIONES
BLACK PARADISE TOUR
19 Feb, 2023. 19h30
por
Compañía María Pagés
@ eatro Bretón de los Herreros (Logroño)
Buy tickets here.
More info about the María Pagés Tour.