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| © Klaus Hadner |
Twentieth century, twenty years ago. Increpación Danza is the name of a dream born in the minds of Monste Sánchez and Ramón Baez. They wanted to renew the language of flamenco dance looking to the contemporary dance as a source of inspiration. It was 1993, the world has been shocked by Grunge music, the iron curtain had died four years ago and there was no rest of it. New world, new minds, new spirits and a new way of experiencing the flamenco language.
In 2013 Montse Sánchez and Ramón Baez have decided to look back in order to see if they are what they dreamed. XX is the result of this exercise of memory and analysis of the work of a dance company always danced in the feminine, never noting the absence of a male bailaor. The new project contains excerpts from the whole career of the company but it’s mainly a door open to the new ways to walk. The music, as always, includes pieces of the masters of flamenco like Camarón de la Isla and classical composers deeply influenced by flamenco like the Catalans Isaac Albéniz and Enric Granados. The performers Vanesa Domínguez, Ruth García, Marisa Güimil, Cristina Casanova and Montse Selma give us a perfect performance full of sensitivity and a magnificent feeling with the duende flamenco which results in a beautiful and deeply honest creation.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Increpación Danza website www.increpacion.com
Photo by Klaus Hadner
Courtesy of Festival Grec de Barcelona
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