Marcos Flores, Olga Pericet & Daniel
Doña. ‘Chanta la mui II. Complot’
Premiere at ‘La otra mirada del flamenco 2008’
3 x 3
Silvia Calado. Madrid, September 3rd, 2008
‘Chanta la mui
II. Complot’ photo gallery, by Daniel Muñoz
‘Chanta la mui II.
Complot’. Olga Pericet, Marcos Flores,
Daniel Doña: dancers. Antonia Jiménez: guitar.
Mercedes Cortés: cante. Sergio Martínez:
percussion. Eloy Pericet: special choreography. María
José Ruiz: choreological director. José
Luis Montón, Héctor González, Sergio
Martínez: original music. ‘La otra mirada
del flamenco 2008’ Series. Teatro Pradillo. Madrid,
August 20th to September 6th, 2008
Olga Pericet and Daniel
Doña on 'Complot' (Photo Daniel Muñoz)
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Individualism is starting to pass away.
Collaboration projects are what’s stirring up the
scene nowadays. More so when it is becoming clear that
it’s not a question of circumstance. An example.
The triple entente consisting of Marcos
Flores, Olga
Pericet and Daniel
Doña solidifies with a second installment of
‘Chanta la mui’, which they have come to call
‘Complot’. Three dancers and/or bailaores
- it’s all the same - conspire... and not against
anything or anyone, but rather in favor not just of their
dancing in particular, but of dancing in general.
And the thing is that this company’s
main asset might be feeding the encounter between genres,
but naturally and fluently, doing without any limits or,
of course, any complexes. And of course, this ‘stratagem’
ends up reflected in each one’s baile, inevitably
feeding back on one another. For example, whoever knows
the very flamenco Marcos Flores will be surprised to see
him with slippers performing in a baroque dance for three.
And that doesn’t keep the great bailaor he is from
appearing when the music turns jondo. Just the opposite
happens to Daniel Doña. And, well, Olga Pericet
is a special case, since she masters everything well.
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Olga Pericet on 'Complot'
(Photo Daniel Muñoz) |
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The music, by the way, is the key to
this show. It was composed by José
Luis Montón - although tonight he is ‘supplanted’
on guitar (bravely) by Antonia Jiménez -, also
feeding on passages by percussionist Sergio Martínez,
on the work of Héctor González, plus the
live cante of Mercedes Cortés. In itself, it includes
just as much versatility as the dancing. One journeys
just as much as the other. Whether it is packaged (which
makes it possible to have collaborators like Juan Valderrama,
Paco de Lucía and Chano Domínguez) or live.
Whether it is flamenco, classical or Latin American.
If this show projects something, it is
precisely the freedom to go from here to there. But not
arbitrarily; rather with great care. Since this work is
the fruit of that, of a lot of work. It can be seen in
all of the details, in the form and substance. And that
includes the lighting, the wardrobe, the stage design
and those fun audiovisuals which provide the whole with
a retro ambience and come up right when the dynamics of
the plot is in danger.
Photo gallery, by Daniel Muñoz
'Chanta la Mui II. Complot'
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