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"a power not a concept"
Federico Garcia Lorca
Fringe Photos by Cedar Nicols
PETER BURDON
February 28, 2008 01:00am
THE Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca is doing well out of Adelaide this season, but if the big-ticket opera Ainadamar is not quite your cup of sangria, Teatro del Mundo's Duende might be.........
"Spanish term used in the arts to describe the passion and authenticity of a performer and their link to the now and the eternal, particularly in music and dance... and if you've ever seen Liana dance live on stage she has the duende, and she has it to an almost scary depth."
Harvey Schiller
DUENDE by Teatro del Mundo
Adelaide Fringe, Feb 27 to Mar 01
It seems Lorca fever is about to hit Adelaide with Spain’s beloved poet Federico Garcia Lorca inspiring ‘illuminating’ works for the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts ‘Ainadamar’ (Fountain of Tears). The International Film Festival feverishly search for the man himself in ‘The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca’ (starring Andy Garcia). Promising an explosive start to our festival season are the cuban heeled dance company Teatro del Mundo Flamenco with their new work that explores Lorca’s relationship with ‘the DUENDE’.
“Every man - every artist, as Nietzsche would say - climbs the stairway, in the tower of his perfection by fighting his duende…The true struggle is with duende…But there are neither maps nor discipline to help us find duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned, that he smashes styles, that he leans on human pain with no consolation…With idea, sound or gesture, the duende enjoys fighting the creator on the very rim of the well…”
Federico Garcia Lorca, Play and Theory of Duende
Bellingen photos by Tony Allison
Duende Menue
- Fringe THE Programme (page 1) (page 2)
- Fringe review by Peter Burdon
- Interview for Rip it Up
