Published on May 10, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: May 30-31, 2014

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 80, 120, 180, 300, 380, 430, 480, 580

Features: Internationally-acclaimed Flamenco dancer Maria Pages and her company of eight dancers and six live musicians will be performing her award-winning show Autorretrato at Opera House of NCPA in Beijing on May 30th-31st.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

With her highly personalized flamenco, the great Maria Pages will be gracing the stage of NCPA in Beijing. Making her China performance again, the famous Seville dancer will present Autorretrato, a self-portrait created at Mikhail Baryshnikov’s instigation.

Maria Pages
Born in Seville, María Pagés is renowned the world over for her very personal vision of the art of flamenco. Using the fundamental codes of flamenco and exploring its strengths and its limits, Pagés has been a true pioneer, approaching flamenco as a living, modern art form that is constantly evolving. Her choreography opens new horizons by borrowing from other cultures and other art forms, for she is convinced that all cultural exchanges provide a better understanding of human beings. She views flamenco as a perfect example of how unifying cultures, races and religions can create a common echo of shared feelings.

Autorretrato
In 2007 Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Maria to dance at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) in New York. That invitation led to an artistic residency, which resulted in Autorretrato.

"Does Maria Pages dance? She has both feet planted on the ground like any other human being, yet differs from you and me. For her the ground underfoot is not just an essential foundation for the fluid movement of footsteps. María Pagés uses the ground to delineate questions and answers. With María the ground acquires a mysterious power of levitation, as though it could dispense with the earth entirely and completely vanish in the air, or fly down the paths that her arms invite us to follow. Indeed, the genie of dance lives in María Pagés, as we all know and proclaim. But that is not this woman’s only gift, for her dance irradiates everything around her. After María Pagés has danced, neither the air nor the earth is ever the same." (José Saramago)

Tickets for Maria Pages Company - Autorretrato are Available now!