FRESCA!The show
PARAÍSO DE LOS NEGROS is a flamenco choreography that draws its lifeblood from the tension between the principles of freedom and authority that run through Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York, the essence of opposites distilled in the eponymous work by Carl Van Vechten, the telluric philosophy of negritude of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Nina Simone’s vindication of black desire. Here, negritude is a semantically complicit echo in which the same eternal conflicts reverberate — those that hold humanity hostage to its own asymmetrical nature.
The company
María Pagés has become one of the most significant figures in flamenco in recent decades. Over the years, her company has performed on the finest and most prestigious stages in the world. She has also amassed a host of accolades, including the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts and the 2015 Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. El Arbi El Harti, for his part, is a writer, poet, playwright and professor of Spanish literature of Moroccan origin. Since 2011 he has worked alongside María Pagés, and together they have created productions such as Utopía, Alegría de los niños, Una oda al tiempo, Yo, Carmen, Fronteras and, indeed, Paraíso de los negros.
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