María Pagés and Dorantes put the flamenco
touch on the 2003 Marseilles Festival
Flamenco-world.com
The Marseilles Festival is fully aware
of all aspects of creativity, including flamenco. In its eighth edition, the French
festival has chosen María
Pagés and Dorantes
as examples of "transdisciplinary" and "eclectic" flamenco.
The company of the Sevillian bailaora, winner of the 2002 National Dance Prize,
will stage the shows 'Flamenco Republic' and 'El perro andaluz. Burlerías'
at La Vieille Charité, while the Lebrija-born pianist will perform the
repertoire from his albums, accompanied by cantaora Esperanza Fernández.
They have, paraphrasing English playwright
Howard Becker, "the power of imagination". And so reveals the Marseilles
Festival, which gathers artists of all disciplines, genres and styles on several
stages in the French city from July 2nd to 20th, 2003. Along with dance creators
like Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; theater creators
like Triptyque Copi; musical theater creators like Robert Wilson; and music creators
like Hasna el Becharia and Tribulations Electroniques; the festival's bill finds
a place for two artists representative of flamenco innovation: María Pagés
and Dorantes.
María Pagés (Photos: Daniel Muñoz)
At La Vieille Charité on Saturday,
July 5th, the María Pagés Company will perform the shows 'Flamenco
Republic' and 'El perro andaluz. Burlerías', "two perfect examples
of the iconoclastic style of María Pagés, the queen of contemporary
flamenco", as explained in the festival program.
The following night, on the same stage, Dorantes
will perform together with Esperanza Fernández -as they already did in
the last Jerez Festival - songs from 'Orobroy', 'Sur' and 'Esperanza Fernández'.
The compositions of the pianist from the Pinini family, according to their presentation
on the bill in Marseilles, "link the fire of his flamenco heritage with the
dreams kindled by his jazz piano".
The Marseilles Festival, founded in 1996 by
Apolline Quintrand, has already had flamenco artists "whose creations know
no bounds" in previous editions such as Joaquín Cortés, Joaquín
Grilo, Javier Barón, Vicente Amigo, La Macanita, Eva Yerbabuena, Mayte
Martín, Carmen Linares, Miguel Poveda, Israel Galván and Duquende.
