O Maria // DeNada
DeNada Dance Theatre in O Maria. Photography: Joe Armitage, Emma Kauldhar and Maria Falconer
O Maria
A Divine Comedy of Ham and Bondage
Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra
Music: Sara Montiel; Bellini; Adolphe Adam; La Lupe; Lola Flores; Pepe Blanco
Design: Ryan Dawson Laight
Lighting: Barnaby Booth
Duration: 25 mins. 3 Dancers
Inspired by the numerous stories of Marian apparitions in rural Spain, Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba and even scenes from the ballet Giselle, O Maria takes place in a stifling kitchen of 1950's Seville. An unexpected heavenly visitor unleashes a torrent of unquenchable desires for an oddly paired couple: a religious woman with a feeding fetish and her tightly bound husband. Divinely subversive, this kitschy kitchen drama for three dancers upturns all gender expectations to a delicious soundtrack of mambos and flamenco.
“Perverse, sexy and flamboyant” The Guardian
“Marvellously unwholesome” Dancing Times