FLAMENCO

As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.

Spain. 1995. Dir.: Carlos Saura. 35mm. 100 min.
With: Maria Pagés
Original Spanish version with English subtitles

IN PRESENCE OF RENOWNED DANCER MARIA PAGÉS presented in collaboration with DANSE, DANSE for Maria Pagés’s upcoming show Autorretrato on April 4th, 5th and 6th at Place des Arts.