The Force of a Woman
Flamenco: The Maria Pagés Company received with enthusiasm at the Cologne Opera House.
By Marianne Kolarik
The Force of a Woman
She is seductive, ironic, amusing, all in one: Maria Pagés, the Flamenco dancer, reveals her different facets to us in "Self Portait" ("Autorretrato").
The Maria Pagés Company has been touring for more than twenty years, and has always been considered one of the best in its field.
SELF-PORTRAIT, presented in the Cologne Opera House, was born of an initiative taken by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the well known choreographer. It is a performance - combining dance with theatre - that the dancer from Seville has written on her own flexible body. Together with her eight dancers and six musicians, she displays with each movement the force of a woman who has gone through ups and downs, to become, finally, the Lightness of Being.
