Yinka Esi Graves
The Disappearing Act
Data:
Sunday 21, April 2024
Place:
Teatre Rialto
Time:
19.00h
Duration:
60'
Price:
From: 8€
Provenance:
Andalucía
Synopsis

The Disappearing Act is Yinka Esi Graves’ first solo production. She draws on her reality as a flamenco dancer of Afro- Caribbean descent and the historical and representational questions this has raised throughout her career. Removal and invisibility become materials with which to create. The Disappearing Act puts one being on display, La Lala. In a three-part performance, she proposes an experiment in which camouflage and crypsis are the main modes for (dis)appearance.

Trajectory

Yinka Esi Graves is a British Flamenco dance artist, practitioner and educator whose choreographic work explores the links between Flamenco and other forms of corporeal expression in particular from an African diasporic and contemporary perspective. She has dedicated the last 14 years of her life to flamenco, studying at Amor de Dios in Madrid and later in Seville with artists such as La Lupi, Andres Marin, Yolanda Heredia and Juana Amaya.

Artistic Team

Concept and direction: Yinka Esi Graves

Choreography and dance: Yinka Esi Graves

Musical direction and guitar: Raúl Cantizano

Drums: Remi Graves

Song: Rose of Algeciras

Lighting design: Carmen Mori

Image and cinematography: Miguel Ángel Rosales

Costume design: Stéphanie Coudert

Sound: Javi Mora

Lighting: Carmen Mori

Production: María González Vidal/Trans-Forma Cultural Production.

With the support of Africa Moment, Grec 2023 Barcelona Festival, Centro Servicios Culturales Santa Chiara – Trento – Trentino Dance Circuit / Alto Adige-Südtirol and the collaboration of Arts Council England, Horizon, Nîmes Flamenco Festival, Flamenco Biennial of Seville.

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