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Poem of the Deep Song

Federico García Lorca

Mónica de la FuenteCompany

A creation in dance, music and theatre where the expe-rience of flamenco is explored in movement, sound and image in an encounter with one of its mother-roots: India. Where the primitive and at the same time stylized sound of flamenco meets –in a creative dialogue- the essence of traditional and contemporary forms of dance-theatre inspired by In-dian Performing Arts. Physical theatre, actions and gestures serve as the languages of expression to convey the poetic world of Lorca and immerse the audience in a new aesthetic experience in search of that magic, timeless space imbued with age-old traditions and startling innovation, poised between India and Flamenco, rasa and duende.

“The duende works on the dancer’s body like wind on sand. It changes a girl, by magic power, into a lunar paralytic, or covers the cheeks of a broken old man, begging for alms in the wine-shops, with adolescent blushes: gives a woman’s hair the odour of a midnight sea-port: and at every instant works the arms with gestures that are the mothers of the dances of all the ages”.

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In Indian aesthetics, RASA refers to the nine basic emo-tions common to all human beings. The artistic expression of those emotions create an aesthetic ideal – a state where all human beings experience ART beyond cultures and frontiers, an experience of the transcendence akin to what in fla-menco is called DUENDE. These universal emotions are the leitmotif of this inter-cultural creation that elaborates a tableau of interior landscapes in an artistic journey through music, dance and visuals.

Lorca divided the collection “Poems of Cante Jondo” in four parts, where each one is dedicated to a different type of fla-menco singing: solea, siguirya, petenera and saeta.

Each one is personified in a character, a woman that has all the elements of the song she represents. Each female character in the poems embodies not only a deep sentiment but also evokes a different atmosphere. By following the struc-ture of the song in terms of melody and rhythm (palo), Lorca creates an acoustic architecture and at the same time brings out the “duende” of each song: “where the sentiments transform the faces, where the bodies reach unexpected spaces and the rhythm is interiorized towards the trance”

Mónica de la Fuente Dancer, choreographer and specialist in Indian perfor-ming arts, Mónica de la Fuente has devoted herself for the last 20 years to the creation and dissemination of the classical and contemporary dances of India. She received her training in clas-sical dance and theatre, Bharata Natyam and Kathakali, at some of India`s most prestigious schools in the field of the performing arts: the Kalakshetra (Madras) and Kalamandalam and Margi (Kerala), with the support of the governments of India (ICCR) and Spain (AECID).

In 2000 she founded her own dance theatre company in Spain and since then has performed at numerous festivals and theatres in India, Europe, and USA, where she has presented her Indian classical dance shows as well as contemporary creations in experimental dance-theatre.

Among Monica`s dance theatre productions are “Lila, Rama´s Play” or the “Flower of Desire” based on the Mahabharata or the “Narrow path of Akka” inspired by the life and poetry of the me-dieval South Indian mystic Akkamahadevi.

She has collaborated with artists like Ravi Prasad, Jorge Par-do, Akash Odedra and has been the artistic coordinator, per-former one of the lead choreographers in the live show Flamen-co, India directed by legendary filmmaker Carlos Saura and premiered at the Calderón Theatre of Valladolid (Spain) in October 2015.

José SalinasJosé Salinas was born in a traditional flamenco family from Andalusia dedicated to the flamenco art. In the year 2001 he moved to Madrid and started to work with important flamenco ensembles: Compañia Joaquin Ruiz, Belen Lopez, Ra-faela Carrasco, Carlota Santana, Miguel Ángel Espino, Miriam Méndez, Inma Ortega, Carlos Chamorro, Concha Jareño etc. With these prestigious artists he performed all over Japan, Canada, South Africa, and USA.

In the year 2009 he was awarded the National Award for Flamenco Singing

In Madrid he has performed in the main Flamenco Tablaos: Casa Patas, Las Carboneras; Café de Chinitas, Corral de la Morería y Las Tablas etc, He has recorded with some of the leading flamen-co groups: El Torta, Miriam Méndez, Salva del Real, Silvia Marín etc. Recently he has produced and recorded his own solo album and continues on tour with projects and experimental works in which he uses a wide range of singing styles within the Spanish musical traditions, such as Acopla2 or Perkuta Flamenco.

Carlos BlancoGuitar player with a Higher Diploma of Music, Flamenco Guitar Specialization and a Master in Music Education. Born in Athis-Mons (France), city where he began studying classical guitar at the Conservatory of Music Maurice Ravel at the age of 11 years. Three years later he moved to Valladolid where he continued training in the flamenco guitar and electric guitar.

After several years performing with all kinds of music bands: rock, folk, flamenco he continued his undergraduate studies in classical guitar at Valladolid and Higher studies of Flamenco Guitar in Cordoba with teachers like Paco Serrano, Manolo Franco, Niño de Pura, Carlos Piñana. Also, he took two year specialized training of flamenco guitar under guitarist Oscar He-rrero and four modern harmony courses with renowned musi-cian and guitarist Felix Santos. 

In 2006, received the award for Best Musician at the Inter-national Folk Festival of Caldas da Rainha (Lisbon-Portu-gal) and in 2002 a Honorary Mention in the International Guitar Competition Villa de Aranda.

As a versatile guitarist he has performed with numerous groups of different musical styles such as rock, pop, folk fusion, flamenco dance companies, flamenco singers and solo tours in Brazil, Japan, France, Portugal, Germany, Ukraine, Costa Rica and Spain.

Guest artists

Subrata DeSubrata De is the most promising name in Sitar today. A si-tarist from Bishnupur Gharana, trained from the age of seven, Mr. De has not only earned his reputation as a performer, but as a cultural ambassador of India, propagating Indian culture in its purest form all over the world. He also works for cultural exchanges between India and foreign countries through concerts, lecture demonstrations and facilitating exchange programmes. Recently with Martinique Jazz Musicians. He was a leader musician for the production Flamenco, India by reputed Film director Carlos Saura produced in Spain in 2015.

Subrata De is a sought after artist globally. He has given perfor-mances in various national and international festivals. He has travelled widely and performed in numerous cities spanning over 35 countries across the world as a solo musician, and as accompaning artist for reputed dancers like Sonal Mansingh, Ranjana Gauhar, etc.

Subrata has released more than 20 albums and Cds He has also started an organization by the name “Swaranjali” in 2000 to promote Indian Classical Music and upcoming artistes from all over India and abroad

Subrata De has been awarded Sangeet Praveen by Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad and Sangeet Bhaskar by Pra-cheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh. Additionally, he has received the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.

Yonder RodríguezYonder Rodriguez is a master percussionist of world instru-ments. He plays more than twenty instruments like cumacos, afrovenezolan drums , quijada, japanese taiko and djembés. Apart from that he also plays indian instruments like tabla and kanjira.

He collaborates with different musical bands like Tradere, Lucrecia, Lola Roe o AzzBand. With the latest he is tou-ring Australia. And he is part of Baúl del Indiano,  dedicated to latinamerican music and baroque music Villanella  and Guitarrísima. He has performed at numerous festivals in Spain and international festivals all around the world. He gives workshops on percussion and making of instruments.

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CreditsMónica de la Fuente

José SalinasCarlos Blanco

Teresa Revenga

Juan Ignacio Arteagabeitia (Atila)

Mónica de la Fuente: dance and choreographyJosé Salinas: flamenco singer, percussion Carlos Blanco: classical and flamenco guitar, electric guitar

Subrata De: sitar Yonder Rodríguez: percussion, tabla and kanjira

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