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THE PLAYS TICKETS CALENDAR PLAN
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FALLA and FLAMENCO:
El Corregidor y la Molinera
DC STAGE PREMIERE
Presented by Post-Classical Ensemble
Angel Gil-Ordóñez, music director
Joseph Horowitz, artistic director
4/23/2010
Sidney Harman Hall
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Showtime: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25, $35, $45
For $10 Student Tickets, call 202.547.1122
Pre-concert film presentation on Falla and Flamenco at 6:30 pm
Pedro Carboné, piano
Ramón Oller, choreographer
Dancers from Barcelona’s Passatges Dansa and New York’s Peridance Ensemble
Falla: Fantasia Baetica (solo piano)
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (piano and orchestra)
Falla: The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife (dance/pantomime; DC stage premiere)
Manuel de Falla, Spain’s most famous composer, used flamenco to revitalize Spanish music after a century of somnolence. All the music on our program is infused with the haunting cante jondo of flamenco song, and the dramatic exuberance of flamenco dance. "El Corregidor y la Molinera" (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife), a boisterous farce, is an early version of Falla’s best-loved score, "The Three-Cornered Hat."
Ramón Oller, one of Europe's pre-eminent choreographers, creates this new production incorporating elements of flamenco dance. Also to be conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it is part of the international celebration of Spain's Spring 2010 Presidency of the European Union.
"Stylistically his method is simply to mix the old and new. The choreography starts from an esssentially modern vocabulary . . . , but it comes spliced with the percussive steps and coiling arms of flamenco. . . . While this layering of styles could easily add up to little more than a postmodern mish-mash, oller cleverly manages to . . . focus on the raw dynamics of the action. . . . On a physical level the result is very potent theatre."
Judith Mackrell reviewing Ramón Oller's "Carmen" (co-commissioned by New York's Joyce Theater) in The Guardian (UK ), June 2006
This program is co-produced by the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC), and is part of the international commemorations of Spain’s presidency of the EU. Program sponsorship is provided by: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación; Dirección General de Política e Industrias Culturales, Ministerio de Cultura; Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM), Ministerio de Cultura; and the SPAIN-USA Foundation. For more information and a full season listing visit
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