Maria Pagés, the Spanish dancer and choreographer, is taking her Flamenco show "Seville" back to the Grand National Theatre in Beijing, following the huge success of their two shows during the past month of April, when the theatre was sold out both times.
"We were all under the impression that we should have stayed here longer or that we would have to return" said the dancer to the EFE Press Agency. As on that occasion, the company will be performing on two dates before an audience of more than a thousand, filling the emblematic theatre, nicknamed "the Egg", in the Chinese capital city.
Pagés assures that each time she has put on "Seville" in big theatres, she is asked to return, as has been the case in Tokyo and Paris - and Beijing is following suit - as in April "the show was sold out".
The show puts six musicians and fourteen dancers on stage, as well as Pagés herself, who, for almost an hour and a half, contrive to "describe the soul of this city in Andalusia".
The performance holds the spirit of the Seville Fair, or that of the art of the bullfight in it's dances - although there are other elements inspired in the dancer's own life experiences, such as the "taconeo", or tapping, of high heeled white shoes (with red polka dots) on the darkened stage (Pagés wears a replica of her first dancing shoes, when she started to dance at the age of four).
She remembers that when she first visited the Grand National Theatre of Beijing, "the people who were waiting outside at the stage exit, mainly girls, all wanted to imitate our aesthetics in some way or wanted to know where to learn Flamenco dance - they all showed the same interest".
"They are a very spontaneous audience " said Pagés of the Beijing spectators, whom she knows well after having performed three times in the Chinese Capital.
Pagés assures that each time she has put on "Seville" in big theatres, she is asked to return, as has been the case in Tokyo and Paris - and Beijing is following suit - as in April "the show was sold out".
The show puts six musicians and fourteen dancers on stage, as well as Pagés herself, who, for almost an hour and a half, contrive to "describe the soul of this city in Andalusia".
The performance holds the spirit of the Seville Fair, or that of the art of the bullfight in it's dances - although there are other elements inspired in the dancer's own life experiences, such as the "taconeo", or tapping, of high heeled white shoes (with red polka dots) on the darkened stage (Pagés wears a replica of her first dancing shoes, when she started to dance at the age of four).
She remembers that when she first visited the Grand National Theatre of Beijing, "the people who were waiting outside at the stage exit, mainly girls, all wanted to imitate our aesthetics in some way or wanted to know where to learn Flamenco dance - they all showed the same interest".
"They are a very spontaneous audience " said Pagés of the Beijing spectators, whom she knows well after having performed three times in the Chinese Capital.
