Introduction

A stalled horse, a woman with a dead child in her arms. Bull in the room. The blind are groping for the veil of time. Little by little, the details form a picture.

Living flamenco legend Carmen Linares, recent Premio Nacional de Danza winner Rafaela Carrasco, flamenco piano master Pablo Suárez, and Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin meet in the room of Spain's national poet Federico García Lorca, outside whose walls the world is going crazy. ¡LORCA! features Linares' interpretation and Roni Martin's new arrangements of Lorca's 1931 flamenco poems, which have deep roots in Andalusian Roma, Jewish, and Arab culture. It took only five years from the recording of these poems to Lorca's murder and the creation of Picasso's Guernica.

A pre performance talk with professor Jussi Pakkasvirta at Dance House Helsinki's Lobby before the show.

The event is part of the Helsinki Flamenco Biennial.

Not recommended for children under 10 years old.