The Catalan bailaora, but with Andalusian roots, Carmen Cortés, takes to the stage of the Sala Roja of Teatros del Canal, from today until 16 January, to present her modern dance and flamenco show ¡Gira, Corazón! Bailando con Lorca en la Edad de Plata (Dancing with Lorca in the Silver Age), which delves into the figure and work of Federico García Lorca.
There is a popular Lorca and an impossible Lorca, but they are the same. There is a Lorca with gypsy roots and a Lorca from New York, but they are the same. There is a Lorca who was the joy of any place he entered, the laughter, the music; and there is a tragic Lorca, full of a dark melancholy, of a mortal wound. But they are the same.
Carmen Cortés, at the head of her flamenco dance company, wants to use dance to approach all those very different men that Lorca left in his words. The starting point for this show is a meeting of friends that took place in the house of the Chilean diplomat in Spain, Carlos Morla Lynch, during the Second Republic, where the poet, recently returned from Havana, read the pages of his play El público.
