Résidence «Alba», for 9 female dancers & 1 male dancer
First performance: 03/05/2006, Theatre Meli, Athens
Music: Youri Stoupel, Françoise Barrière, Manuel de Falla
The elegy of M. Hernandez «Elegia a la muerte de Garcia Lorca», introduces us into the world of the Residence «ALBA»: a world of silence and conflicts, the infernal world of solitude with a suffocating atmosphere where reigns a bland smell of death. A world in which Bernarda steers in absolute despot...
The conscientiousness of a man who wanted to write his last play on the day he was condemned to choose his own death, combined with a personal evidence when I was confronted with the overwhelming majority of female dancers who attended my dance class, became my first source of inspiration. After that, the various elements of the characters as explained by Lorca himself grew into pilots for the construction of the structure of the work.
Then, why a male dancer for the role of Bernarda? Simply, because with the use of that name, Lorca wanted to underline the strength of the character. It originates from a linguistic root which results from the German «bär», who has the strength of the bear.
From that moment on, the separate elements until then became connected to each other...
