Frontiers is a choreographic investigation born from the collaboration of the choreographer María Pagés and the writer El Arbi El Harti and the city councils of Madrid and Fuenlabrada. It explores limits and limitations in all their forms and is built around a scenic reflection on the tension of borders (real and fictitious, concrete and symbolic, conscious and unconscious) and their consequent violence on the human body and consciousness. Its rhythm is born from the experience as a reference and drinks from the vital arrhythmia that leads people to claim life as a right. It develops from flamenco choreography a multidisciplinary, transversal and polyphonic creative process. It is conceived to have a plural and diverse spatial, temporal and disciplinary journey. 

The first phase of the research is creative: dramaturgical writing, composition of lyrics and music, choreographic reflection, lighting design, sound, scenography, scenic arrangement, costume design… The second phase allows the creators to approach the choreographic exploration in the scenic spaces of Fuenlabrada and Castellón. The third phase, which is a phase of artistic polishing, development and improvement, takes place at the CCMP, at the Teatro Josep Carreras in Fuenlabrada and at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. The fourth and last conclusive phase takes place in Madrid, thus closing the journey of a scenic argumentation that began its journey in 2018 to end, due to the pandemic, in 2021. This creative path rich in teachings and knowledge culminates next May with the presentation of the documentary Las tribulaciones de María and the essay El norte ya no es posible, which together with Paraíso de los negros make up the Proyecto Fronteras. 

Proyecto Fronteras is the synthesis of the choreographic, written and audiovisual reflection that María Pagés and El Arbi El Harti have developed with their musicians, lighting designers, sound designers, stage designers, stage managers, machinists, writers, directors, producers, photographers?

The Project, on the one hand, implements our conviction that flamenco choreography represents one of the most solid and legitimate contemporary paradigms of Spanish culture and, on the other hand, transcribes the undeniable reality that it is a creation of creators and a profession of professions.

Fronteras is a project created and argued to dignify flamenco dance and all its professionals.