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.
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.
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.
