‘Carmen’, the universal genius of Antonio Gades

Madrid

Updated:19/03/2021 00:24h

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The legacy of Antonio Gades It is one of the great treasures of Spanish dance – and culture – due to the importance of its choreographies for this art. Between them, ‘Carmen‘is undoubtedly the most popular – it has come to appear before a hundred thousand people on the Brazilian beach of Ipanema – thanks undoubtedly to the universality of the character. “I made ‘Carmen’ -said the creator- because I did not like that stereotypical and false image that she has, being a woman who gives herself without reservation when she loves, who does not abandon her class even if she is in the highest spheres ».

Premiered at the Théatre de Paris on May 17, 1983, it was created from the film