An ode to audacity and freedom to open the Nîmes Flamenco Festival

Patricia Guerrero, en héroïne incandescente de la liberté. – Mikaël Anisset

The Flamenco Ballet of Andalucia, a troupe with impressive power. – Mikaël Anisset

Japanese-style appetizer with Andrés Marín at Carré d'art. – Mikaël Anisset

Japanese-style appetizer with Andrés Marín at Carré d'art. – Mikaël Anisset

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Mise en bouche japonisante avec Andrés Marín à Carré d'art. – Mikaël Anisset

C’est parti pour dix jours de fiesta à Nîmes ! Le Festival Flamenco a débuté avec Andrés Marín et Patricia Guerrero, à la tête du Ballet flamenco de Andalucía.

Andrés Marín likes to push boundaries. For the opening of the festival with free access in the hall of Carré d’art (the first good idea of ​​this 35th festival), he once again disrupts codes and genres, accompanied by the melodies of saxophonist Alfonso Padilla. Cubist mask, fans, umbrella and short kimono, the flamenco dancer draws inspiration from butoh for a journey between Andalusia and the land of the rising sun. A follower of pure gesture, Andrés Marín embraces Japanese philosophy while remaining faithful to the flamenco tradition, playing with shadows for a ceremony that is by turns joyful and sepulchral.

The festival-goers then met at the Bernadette-Lafont theater for the first big evening, with the Ballet flamenco de Andalucía, which was received triumphantly. With Pineda, Patricia Guerrero brings to life a heroine of Federico García Lorca, a young innocent with a fresh and sacrificed beauty.

In a disturbing atmosphere of stalking, the freedom fighters dance with impressive power, proclaiming their love, their solidarity. Violence prowls, slams, strikes. It will carry off its insolent heroine, in a duet with Alfonso Losa. But among the ruins, a few flowers still grow. And even in hell, the flame of freedom will remain incandescent, like the talent of the young dancer and her troupe.

The festival continues with music this Friday, January 10 at Paloma, with two iconoclasts, the singer Nino de Elche and the meeting between the electric duo ZA! and the figure of today's flamenco Tomas Perrate.