Contemporary flamenco dancer Carmen Avilés brings raw, fast-paced energy to Seville’s streets
- Andy McIlvain
- 11 hours ago
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Contemporary flamenco dancer Carmen Avilés brings raw, fast-paced energy to Seville’s streets
"Stripping back flamenco to its core elements, contemporary flamenco artist Carmen Avilés leads a powerful street performance in Seville for the short film Carmen. Directed by leading dance filmmaker Andrew Margetson, and shot in a closed courtyard in the Los Pajaritos neighborhood, the film captures the raw energy of the southern Spanish dance form, showing another side of the city that connects with flamenco’s roots in the Roma community, and Seville’s Moorish history.
Transplanting extraordinary movement to an everyday setting, Carmen frames the fast-faced footwork and tapped out rhythm of a bulería without the elaborate costumes and staged environments, leaning into Avilés’ modern approach to the flamenco tradition. Building musical textures into the live atmosphere with composer Nemanja Mosurović, Margetson lets the sound of shoes on stone re-channel flamenco through contemporary codes, reinforcing its intensity through unembellished visual language... read more at nowness.com"
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