"To burn with desire and remain silent about it - that is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves."

Federico Garcia Lorca

Fire

Every action we take that is imbued with passion contains the power of fire. People with the element of fire have a great sense of freedom, they are instinctive, emotionally overwrought. They are energetic, generous, creative. Like the passionate female characters in tonight's dance dramas, who are driven to destruction by this same unbridled passion.

Bernarda Alba's house

in the "Andalusia of tears"

Garcia Lorca's last work, Bernarda Alba's House, subtitled "a drama of women in Spanish villages", is a critique of the social constraints that crush individual happiness. Through the fate of a grieving widow and her daughters, it depicts the tensions of confinement and repression, and the nature of the power of desire to turn against each other. Lorca captures the sultry atmosphere of repressed passions. He who bows to hard tradition takes upon himself eternal unhappiness. Whoever rebels against it, whoever demands serenity and happiness, dies in it.

Bolero

"If desire, then Bolero"

According to an international music survey conducted twenty years ago, Bolero's sound is the best suited to trigger our imagination. Fuelled by smouldering sexuality, it's an unrelenting, drifting melody. The idea for the work came from the dancer Ida Rubinstein, who commissioned the work 95 years ago from Ravel, and its first choreographer was a woman, Bronislava Nijinsky, sister of the famous Vaclav Nijinsky.

Bizet - Scsedrin: Carmen

the "song of spilling blood"

To be Carmen is not a choice, but a matter of destiny. Because if a beautiful gypsy girl is born with a demonic charm and wants to break out of her life, among the easily inflamed working women, the rude soldiers and loud-voiced bullfighters who prey on them, what else can she do but let it work? And Carmen instinctively operates it masterfully: she teases, she defies, she fights back. She is available, but utterly unobtainable. With her femininity that captivates all men, her unbridled sensuality, she successfully fights against male superiority, until one day she lets her heart through. The derailment is momentary, but this love will be her destiny nonetheless. In vain does she flee, in vain does she repel the man who has given up everything for her, the man who has abandoned the woman he loves, Micaela, and the man who has left her, but there is only one page left. In the double game of attraction and repulsion, Carmen and Don José are opposites, and their destruction is also their own.