Teatro Español y Naves del Español
Living Arts International Gathering Africa Moment'21 celebrates this year its 5th edition in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, an unprecedented edition with a double itinerary, which presents proposals of great innovation and artistic quality by leading figures on the...
For years now, the most popular singers have made the leap to the cinema and the theatre and the same is true of actors, they move on to music, participate as singers, create their bands with other players, etc. In every age, artists from one side or the other of the...
The Platform Project is a series that presents small-format stage works that have stood out for their artistic proposals within the independent fringe scene in the city of Madrid.
In these post-crisis times, when there was a genuine explosion in creativity, but when...
We already know that the arts are beneficial to human beings and that children grow best if they develop artistic activities. That is why we believe there is a need to create a project where boys and girls and their families are the protagonists.
Every day there is...
This is a time of memory and opportunity
We believe that the Teatro Español of Madrid is honour-bound to salvage the memory of our more senior actors. Several generations of actresses and actors whose talent and efforts have helped make our society more...
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In 1962, Colita began a journey that would lead her to a world called “Flamenco”. She ventured into the gypsy world where, in spite of the poverty and misery she encountered, she experienced the joy they expressed through the most spontaneous and authentic dance and song. She met someone who would be one of the most important women in her life, Carmen Amaya, who had just arrived from Mexico to work in “Los Tarantos” and who would be the cause of an experience that would mean that nothing would ever be the same again in her search for emotion: “… I had never seen nor felt anything like it in my life. Something akin to a bedazzlement and an emotion that brought me to the verge of tears... From that moment on, you embark on a journey that has no end...”. These are Colita’s own words in the book “Luces y Sombras del Flamenco” (Lights and Shadows of Flamenco) in which, with text by J.M. Caballero Bonald, she shares moments spent with the people of an Andalusia that opened its homes, its patios, its very life to her. Unrepeatable moments captured in the photographs she took. From here, her journey took her to countless flamenco tablaos and stages, always searching for that unrepeatable moment that allowed her to photograph artists who made a huge impression on her life and on the history of this art form: Gades, La Chunga, Paco de Lucía, Mairena, Menese, Talega, La Piriñaca, Morente, Poveda and so many more. This exhibition, which features 70 photographs from her archive, will take us on a personal journey through a unique period of time, her own.
Francesc Polop Curator
Curator: Francesc Polop