“Journey to Enchanting Love”, a complex dance mosaic

since Pastor’s empire The ballet premiered in 1915 at the Lara Theater in Madrid “Enchanting Love” (“Gitanería in one act and two panels with Andalusian songs and dances”) was a temptation for most of the choreographers in our dance. … Ten years after its premiere, and with Manuel de Falla himself, its composer, conducting the orchestra, the final version of the ballet was staged at the Trianon-Lyrique Theater in Paris, with Antonia Mercy, la Argentina, as choreographer and protagonist. Antonio Ruiz Soler, Antonio Gades, Victor Olatieven heretics Israel Galvan They were seduced by this ghostly story and this captivating outcome.

On the centenary of this work, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea for the Spanish Community Ballet of Madrid – a strong and powerful company – to want to leave their own mark on it. On paper, it was a success that we entrusted this visit to three prominent figures in our Spanish dance: Olga Perisset, Rafael Estevez and Valerian clothingchoreographers of the show titled “Viaje al Amor Brujo,” which premiered Thursday at the Teatros del Canal, and which also includes two other pieces by Falla: “The Seven Popular Songs” and “Homenaje Le tombeau de Claude Debussy” (as well as flamenco pieces by the artist Danny from Moron).

The journey has been uneven – like the surprising journey the company itself has taken during this short year and a half of its life – and the feeling you get when the curtain falls is that you have witnessed a kind of “patchwork”, a mosaic whose tiles don’t quite fit as they should. The glue that should hold them together, Manuel de Falla -His music is the backbone – he never stops doing it.

Choreographing the Cadiz composer’s Seven Popular Songs is no easy feat; Firstly, because of the duration of some of them – a little over a minute -; Olga Periset He wanted each one to dance in different styles, from the bolera school to folklore, and although there are interesting moments, especially when he speaks the language in which he expresses himself best – “contemporary” flamenco – it ultimately results in a strange mixture fueled by costumes. The best is the pas de deux which he turns into a tribute to Debussy, melancholy, deep and sad.

Estévez and Paños signed off on the choreography for a piece called “Alucinaciones” – with music by Dani de Morón – and the song “El amor brujo”, this piece actually with Orcam on stage (just as in “Seven Popular Songs”). The two pieces bear the stamp of the creative couple that tells a story Maria Legarraga With broken, intense, personal, sometimes magnetic, but always interesting – albeit with some narrative confusion – flamenco; Fire dance is particularly attractive and shows creative talent Rafael Estevez and Valeriano Baños.

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