|
Flamenco in vivid black and white
Barcelona's Increpación Danza group have fused the rythmictraditional spanish form with the physical energy of modern dance in an hour-long frenzied show... Ramón is a modern dancer turned choreographer. His collaborator, Montse Sánchez is a flamenco expert and together they have produced a powerful piece of dance theatre...It can get quite rowdy too with the dancers expressing their frustration by beating heavily on percussion instruments and stamping the floor in anger with frenetic steps. The original music for the show is a mixture of traditional flamenco with the voices of women singing about their lives in jail...
Stan Phillips, Cardiff.
Mary Brennan, The Herald, Glasgow, Thursday, March 12, 1998
There's scarcely room to do full justice to Increpación danza and Wad Ras (the name of a woman's prison in Barcelona). Fiver women in black trews, white shirts, long and turbulent hair, use selected facets of flamenco melded into contemporary dance to express the desolation, fear, and pent-up tensions of incarceration. Feet send out morse messages of anguish, twining arms signal loneliness, and restless thoughts. You can feel the heat, the claustrophobia, even witness the bullying, the sudden moment of tenderness tinged with sensuality, and all through the way the flamenco has been inventively used. A revelation, stunningly performed.
|
