SEVILLA BACK »
Première in Bunka Mura - Orchard Hall - Tokio
14th May 2006
National Premiere – Teatro de la La Maestranza – SEVILLA
December 27th 2006
Choreography: María Pagés
Concept Script and Direction:
María Pagés y José María Sánchez
Lyrics: García Lorca, A. Machado, Ben-Sahl, Saramago, Popular.
Music: Shostakovich, Sarasate, Bizet, Gardel , D. Modugno, J.A. Carrillo, R. Lebaniegos, Gallardo, L. Pastor ,J. M. Serrat, M. Pagés, J.M . Sánchez
Lighting Design Dominique You y José María Sánchez
Scenography: Christian Olivares
Costumes Design: Christian Olivares, Pagés, Sánchez
Photography: Ouka Leele
There are many ways of returning:
returning by plane, returning by train, returning by ship, returning on a house, sometime just imagined, or simply throughg desire´s everlasting journey.
After my long trip experimenting, exploring
into the never ending possibilities of Flamenco,
when facing the challenge inherent to this new creation,
I felt the need to return to the beginning of my adventure:
....... to return to the roots,
to return to my chilhood,
to return to ....
SEVILLA
The mother-creator of all my adeventures,
on stage and beyond.
As to the means of transport,
my choice was the Dream ....
And back home I realise that Seville is not just Seville,
not just the Giralda with its Giraldillo,
not just the fountains resounding with water
constructed with the art and skill of Seville´s craftsmen,
ancestors of my parents and their parents´parents.
Seville is not just the glistening rain in the alleyways
or the blinding sun reflecting off the ochre-tintes walls,
nor is it just its royal gardens of the Alcazares
nor the moon shining on the Oriental-style domes,
nor is it simply the streets made slippery with the wax
dripping from the Semana Santa processions,
nor the waterways, or paths through the olive trees
or this sweltering land which attracted poets, painters and musicians.
No. Seville is not merely all this.
It is much more. It is all the earth needs to touch the sky.
Seville es a Mystery.
María Pagés
