- Carmen

This new production of Carmen, an adaptation of the classic by Merimée, with live flamenco music and a careful choreography has been totally designed by Maria Carrasco. She has created from the adapted script, staging and choreography to costumes design, including a spectacular gown tail … tail coat fifteen metres that simulates a bullring.

Maria Carrasco has played Carmen on the stages of various countries and has wooed the audiences and critics alike and toured various venues in her home country spain.

The produccion has a cerefull thought-out stage design, an eyecatching costume design and a mesterly body of dance for this new version of the classic myth of the passionate and spanish woman.

With twenty artists on stage, four musicians and sixteen dancers, the show includes Spanish dance, flamenco, tango argentino and contemporary dance, as well as set changes beautifull costumes and mesmesiring lighshow. This show, Carmen, was finalist in the category of Best Dance Show at the VIIth Edition of the Max theatre awards, and Maria Carrasco for Female Performance.

With an original female gaze on this universal myth, Maria Carrasco explanis: “My vision of Carmen has changed over the years, it is a work that grows with time. The more you approad it the more you discover new nuances and differents caractheristics of thir very contemporary woman. The fact that is a wild woman, that does not respect established rules, hercraving for freedom, her desire for satisfying own in stincts, that rebellious ness that make her transgress the moral of the time, produces a strong attraction”

Carmen is a story of freedom, jealousy and passion. The French writer Prosper Merimée listened toher friend the Countess of Montijo telling  the history of the world´s most famous cigars seller fifteen years after in 1845, he decided to put pen to paper within a few days he had finished the novel that combines all the elements of the romanticism of the time exoticism, unbridled  passions, destructive loves affairs and tragic destinies..

 

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