'LOS CAMINOS DE LORCA' – Flamenco evenings in Granada

Organized by the Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía
in cooperation with the Granada municipal government, a new flamenco program
which delves into the life and work of Federico García Lorca will
once again be presented at the Carlos V palace. On this occasion the show
recreates the Granada poet’s last night when his characters romp
through “the fields in search of simple people to show them the
ways of the world”.

The Palacio of Carlos V is located within the grounds of the
Alhambra and Generalife, and the show will be presented from July 22nd
to August 28th, Monday to Saturday at 10:00pm

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“Federico has been compared to a child; in his greatest
moments he was impetuous, outspoken, magical…”

That child was executed on August 18th, 1936.

Ever since then, every 18th of August, his creations come
to life: invisible beings, belonging to a midsummer night’s dream,
who, guided by the hand of master of ceremonies “Mosquito”,
dance to the memory of a poet to denounce killers in the here and now,
those assassins who come out at night, approach the lamps and the moonlight
and never burn or perish.

The poet’s last night, when his creatures when his
characters romp through “the fields in search of simple people to
show them the ways of the world”.

A poetic capitulation, a prelude to death, a midsummer night’s
dream. An illuminated forest where all God’s creatures, fairies,
insects and children live without fear of being seen. Yes, the flamenco
spirit as well, that which “loves the edge of the wound and the
place where shapes and forms are immersed in longing which is above and
beyond visible expression”.

The clock strikes mignight.

Summer of ’36, summer of 2004.

Pepa Gamboa