Luna Negra Presents: "Carmen.maquia" March 2, 2012

Luna Negra Dance Theater continues its season this spring with a World Premiere by Artistic Director Gustavo Ramírez Sansano titled “CARMEN.maquia,” a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on the famous and fiery Spanish gypsy, “Carmen.” This work marks Luna Negra’s first-ever full evening-length production. Luna Negra presents “CARMEN.maquia” in one performance only at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

Set to orchestral selections by French composer Georges Bizet, this work is an abstraction of the story told in Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” where the brooding but disciplined Don José falls madly in love with the rebellious, free-spirited Carmen. The Luna Negra ensemble shifts fluidly from characters Carmen and Don José to a chorus of bravado bullfighters, fortune-telling gypsies and regimented soldiers. Sansano’s detailed movement, with subtle references to traditional Spanish dances, puts a modern stamp on this timeless tale of the thin line between love and obsession.