'Flamenco Republic' is the complete opposite to the productions for which I am more famous like 'La Tirana' or 'El perro andaluz'. At the time of their creation they were novel works and they are now the ones for which I am most well-known. The reason was that they brought flamenco together with other arts and other types of music, ... If, at that time, what most interested me was looking further afield, looking at what surrounded us and looking at how I could be influenced by other arts and other music, 'Flamenco Republic' is the complete opposite - it is a look inside, an examination of what we have, and where we come from. I needed to satisfy the curiosity that I have always had about how one dances and how one sings. And to do that, I have been investigating the words, music and the cantes... I thought that if the cantes were done in another way, then surely the dances would be different. Or the other way round, the dance could influence the cante... Something that before no one had dared propose, because the cante always led the way. Now music is also starting to influence the way we interpret the rhythms through the dance. This type of investigation, this introspection, was what inspired at the time to create 'Flamenco Republic'.

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