María Pagés - I'm what I dance

EL MUNDO Monday 23/03/2009
Maria Pagés stands in front of the mirror. In the shadows and the light. The "bailaora" (Flamenco dancer) comes back to Madrid with her "Self Portrait", an intimate and emotional journey to her innermost being. With some touches of humour and a lot of poetry. "This performance flowed out of me in that moment one takes to look within oneself, that moment when one asks oneself who one is, where one is and where one is going".

05.03.2009 DIARIO DE CADIZ.By Francisco Sánchez Múgica.

After a fade to black, Maria rises up towards the sky just as a rose does, or as a bird of prey with it's endless wings and a distant look in it's eyes, trying to understand the reason for being here and to discern which direction to take. Maria delves into the light and shadows of her past. She is multi-faceted and shakes up her inner core, turning her "Self Portrait" - which fascinated the audience in Villamarta last night - into an artistic prodigy of dazzling genius, with different moments of almost unbearable convulsion. The subtlety of her latest creation hurts and tears us apart, shaking our emotions and disturbing our hearts. She plays with the emptiness of the space created by Brook, yet emphasises the sacredness of Dance (in all it's forms and meanings) and of Flamenco. She uses just the elements needed to knit an inner microcosm of shadows, leaving little space around it for any element of concession to the audience at large, only granting it to them at the end of her performance. This is Pagés by Pagés.

30/10/2008 By Yuris Nórido.

Maria Pagés fills the stage on her own, even when it is a big stage, as in the Mella Theatre. We have seen her dancing a deeply rooted Flamenco, powerful, yet fresh. She is tall and beautiful, enthralling, emanating a ready sense of humour. She faces the audience straight on, translucent, with confidence, as if we had known her forever. She gives herself up to her public, dances as if her life depended on her dance; but there is no tragedy in this: Maria Pagés' dance is about the joy of Life, the good fortune of being able to feel, to enjoy, to love... Maria Pagés dances Flamenco as if she were born to this dance.