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.