Inspired in the work by Prosper Merim\u00e9e Story, Choreography and Lighting Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura.<\/p>\n
\u2018With Gades\u2019s choreography center stage, Carmen holds up as a classic, universal in its appeal, timeless in its art\u2019. \u2013 Washington Post<\/p>\n
About Carmen
\nThe theatre version of Carmen was conceived roughly at the same time as the shooting of Carlos Saura\u2019s film. The film\u2019s success, which took even Gades and Saura by surprise, encouraged Antonio Gades to produce a version for the theatre that turned out to be another masterpiece in the line of Bodas de Sangre and Suite Flamenca. The premiere in Paris in 1983 was a considerable popular and critical success, revealing Antonio Gades to be not only one of the most important dancers in the world but also one of the greatest choreographers.<\/p>\n
Antonio Gades\u2019 reasons for creating this work can be summed up in the ideas that he explained in a press conferences. In his view \u201cCarmen is neither a frivolous woman nor a man-eater. She\u2019s just an honest woman who when she loves says she loves and when she doesn\u2019t love and says she doesn\u2019t. In other words, a free woman. I don\u2019t think this makes her a maneater.<\/p>\n
Carmen also doesn\u2019t treat her feelings as private property. When she loved she said so and she did the same when she stopped loving. She also had such an exalted idea of freedom that she preferred to die rather than lose it. She\u2019s always been treated frivolously and as a maneater. But Carmen has something essential which is a far cry from all this – her concept of class and her nobility.<\/p>\n
Referring to the success of Carmen all over the world, Antonio mentioned the French critics who said that \u201cMerim\u00e9e brought Carmen to France but we\u2019ve taken her back to Spain.\u201d Carmen has almost always been treated in a superficial and frivolous way but she is much deeper than that. He said that Carmen was misunderstood because when M\u00e9rim\u00e9e wrote the work in 1837 she scandalised puritans and those who could not see that she stood for genuine female emancipation. Don Jos\u00e9, on the other hand, is a fugitive from his class, a bourgeois \u2018slumming it\u2019 who will not be faithful to her. He does think of the loved one as private property.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did Carmen because I didn\u2019t like the stereotyped false image of her. She\u2019s a woman who when she loves gives herself wholly and who never forgets what class she is even in the most exalted company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Programme Length
\nRunning time of each performance is about 1 hour 30 minutes without intermission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373313,373326,373336],"area_type":[350139],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1284158","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-dance-en","event_category-dance-flamenco-en","event_category-dance-choreodrama-en","area_type-non-local","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1284158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1284158"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1284158"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1284158"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1284158"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1284158"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1284158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}