David and Alfredo Lagos

Martinicos le di a mi cuerpo [I Gave My Body Martinicos] (second session)

CCCB Sala Teatre

July 11

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Five of the most renowned and evocative artists on the current flamenco scene invoke the figure of the “duende”, the mystery and one-of-a-kind force that Federico García Lorca defined as the very soul of creation.

In the second session of Martinicos le di a mi cuerpo, on Friday 11 July, David Lagos and Alfredo Lagos bring flamenco to words and music in a concert with cante song and guitar that draws from Lorca but also from Alberti and Miguel Hernández. The concert is a reflection on inevitable destiny, light and shadow, celebration and mourning, the ultimate truth that only art is capable of sustaining.

This is a theatre and musical journey through light and shadow, life and death, body and voice. It takes the form of two shows, independent yet connected, which can be seen on 10 and 11 July. Both engage in conversation with the strength and instinct of tradition in search of this coveted, elusive Duende, here colloquially named Martinico.

If anything defines flamenco, it is its ability to move, to ignite the air, and to transform pain into beauty. Martinicos le di a mi cuerpo offers us two complementary visions of an art that, rooted in tradition, continues to reinvent itself with a passion that never tires of being reborn.

The show is part of the “In the Troubled Air..", curated by Georges Didi-Huberman at the CCCB, which takes as its starting point the Romance de la luna, luna [Ballad of the Moon Moon], the first poem of Lorca’s Romancero Gitano.

A production by the CCCB in collaboration with El Dorado – Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa.