BAILES ALEGRES PARA PERSONAS TRISTES

Flamenco dancers are like islands, each one working on their own terrain, isolated and alone, not sharing anything with others.

Belén Maya

This reflection gave rise to the show Bailes alegres para personas tristes by Belén Maya who remains faithful to herself, to her search and to collaboration, proposing a shared show with one of the most personal dancers of her generation: Olga Pericet.

This is a space where the dancer is not isolated and alone, but forms part of a much more extensive complex that in turn is enriched by its own contributions. It is a work of investigation and collaboration that aims to create a space where language can be shared and developed and thus extend its borders until a new form of communication is created that is never severed from the main connection that is dancer-guitar.

Working from the contrasts and similarities between Maya and Pericet, a show is gradually woven which, as its title suggests, tries to create a space of light and colour, but also of shadow and pain. It is the face to face encounter with the other ego like someone looking at himself in a mirror and contemplating that which goes beyond the image, the physical element. It is all human interaction: the other as a threat, as a necessity, as a mirror in which to look at oneself, as a crystallization of what we deny about ourselves, as an opportunity to grow. (David Montero).