“When I dance, I feel free. I try not to think. I let it be. Let myself be me, with my mood and emotions of the moment. My body speaks in place of my words, but all the while in osmosis with the musicians. Now I’m expressing the same thirst for freedom by forming my own company for the first time, under my name. At the moment I’m working on a project that will be staged in late 2019. It’s a solo piece where I’ll be onstage for half an hour with just a soundtrack, no live musicians. Stripped bare, so to speak. It’ll be called Répercussions, referring to the impact of my past life and past experiences on my present. It will be staged in Marseille first; then I’ll tour the whole of France in 2020, maybe beyond. As long as it works, I’ll keep on dancing. It’ll be contemporary flamenco, and will be staged in theatres that usually have dance on their programmes.
Shifting boundaries
Right now, the choreography work on Répercussions is giving me an urge to go even deeper into flamenco. I’m very flamenco-minded, very concentrated on that dance form, but I’m trying to see how far I can go. I want to know more about the different styles that feed into flamenco and at the same time open flamenco to other artistic fields and other dance styles, other music genres. In other words, shift the boundaries. In future I want to create my own shows. I want my art to reflect who I am as much as possible.” With her unique personality, strength and determination, that dream will surely come true in theatres all over France.
2000: First alegria at the Centre Solea in Marseille, age 9
2004: First solo dance performance, in La Monja gitana
2009-2017: A stay in Seville to further my knowledge of flamenco
Par Bruno Lambert
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