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Israel GalvánChoreography, Composition, Dance

Niño de Elche Composition, Dance

Julien Condemine Direction

Carlos Marquerie Visual direction

Peggy Housset Costume

Eloísa Cantón, Emilio Caracafé, El Junco, Ramón Martínez, Minako Seki, Alia Sellami Dance

Israel Galván’s performance of “La Fiesta” is ecstatic, collective and sprawling. The exceptional flamenco dancer does not only present the fiesta as he experienced it in his childhood days in its representational form. Rather, he celebrates the hidden energy of the interpersonal that drives and sometimes derails the festive joy. The individuals merge into one dancing body, the voices dance, the bodies sing – “La Fiesta” invites the audience to a celebration of flamenco and carries them off into an electrifying world of sound.

The Andalusian choreographer is constantly exploring new aspects of flamenco and has made a name for himself as the enfant terrible of flamenco by combining it with contemporary dance. Together with seven dancers, he presented “La Fiesta” at the “Festival d’Avignon” on 19 July 2017. You can see an edited version of the ARTE recording.

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