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Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia

Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia

Viaje al Sur – Journey to the South

This story is about unattainable longing. A journey inspired by the dream world of the South. The dance fantasy consists of three parts (movements) representing a stage each of the journey: Happiness, Tragedy and Passion. In the first part, music and dance evoke the scent of orange and jasmine groves, the overwhelming feast of spring. Happiness and the noblest of all feelings of sharing it with others. However, there is also the loneliness of dried-up land, of hopeless distances, the horror of senseless wars, deep and smothering pain. Tragedy itself that has come to be so closely associated with life in Andalucia. Flamenco is the only means that can help leave it all behind. And of course, going hand in hand with it, there is Passion, the unstoppable pulsation of love, the conquest of ethereal dimensions.

1. Happiness
I. Poem (Vals)
II. Guajira 
III. Zapateado 1, 2, 3
IV. Alegrías

2. Tragedy
I. Soleá
II. Soleá por Bulerías
III. Toná-Serrana

3. Passion
I. Gracias a la vida (versión bulerías)
II. Soleá por Bulerías
III. Corazón Partío (versión tangos)

Choreographer, artistic leader: Cristina Hoyos
Director: Ramón Oller
Music: José Luís Rodríguez
Sets, lighting: Francisco Leal
Costume: Mercé Paloma
Assistant director: Juan Parades
Assistant choreographer: El Junco
Choreographer, artistic leader: Cristina Hoyos
Director: Ramón Oller
Music: José Luís Rodríguez
Sets, lighting: Francisco Leal
Costumes: Mercé Paloma

Cast:
Susana Casas, Cristina Gallego, Rosa Belmonte, Mar Montero, Ana Moya, Lucia Guarnido, Leonor Leal (female dancers)

José Luis Vidal, Jesús Ortega, Jacob Guerrero, Javier Crespo, Daniel Torres Abel Harana, Juan A. Jiménez (male dancers)

Reyes Martín, Vicente Gelo, Antonio Núñez "El Pulga"/ vocal,
Ramón Amador, guitar
José Luis Rodríguez, guitar