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

SUBSCRIBE to the OFFICIAL BBC YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn LAUNCH BBC iPlayer to access Live TV and Box Sets: https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra creates work that often explores questions of gender and sexual identity.

Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra

Music: Sara Montiel; Bellini; Adolphe Adam; La Lupe; Lola Flores; Pepe Blanco

Design: Ryan Dawson Laight

Lighting: Barnaby Booth

Duet from O Maria, choreographed by Carlos Pons Guerra for DeNada Dance Theatre's triple bill, Ham and Passion. Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra Dancers: Azzurra Ardovini and Phil Sanger Music: Bellini

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

Premiered at the Riley Theatre, Leeds, December 2014.

tWO INTERNATIONAL TOURS WITH denADA dANCE tHEATRE: 2015/16 AND 2017.

fEATURED IN BBC FOUR DOCUMENTARY, PREJUDICE AND Passion

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