Sara Baras debuts «Medusa, la guardiana» at the Festival de Mérida

July 9th, at the 60th Festival Internacional del Teatro Clásico de Mérida, the dancer's most recent creation will debut. The 9th through the 13th, inclusive, at Merida's Teatro Romano.

“Medusa, la guardiana” inspired in the mythological Greek character, is one of the most important attractions of the Extremaduran festival, as well as a work which the Cádiz dancer will tour with at numerous festival throughout the summer.

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Tickets: http://www.festivaldemerida.es/compra-ya-tus-entradas.php

 

CAST

Medusa: Sara Baras – Perseus: José Serrano

The Conscience: Juan Carlos Vellido – Athena: Carmen Camacho – Poseidon: David Martín

Priestesses, Grayas, Nymphs and the Curse: María Jesús Garcia, Rosario Pedraja, Carmen Camacho, Cristina Aldón y Tamara Macías

Suitors and warriors: Daniel Saltares, Alejandro Rodríguez, Raúl Fernández, María Jesús Garcia y Manuel Ramírez

 

SARA BARAS BALLET FLAMENCO

Sara Baras – José Serrano (choreography of his own dances)
CORPS DE BALLET

Maria Jesús García (Repetidora), Rosario Pedraja, Carmen Camacho, Cristina Aldón, Tamara Macías, Daniel Saltares, David Martín, Alejandro Rodríguez, Raul Fernández, Manuel Ramírez

MUSICIANS

Music director: Keko Baldomero. Guitar: Keko Baldomero, Andrés Martínez. Cello: Ivo Cortés. Percussion: Antonio Suárez, Manuel Muñoz “Pájaro”
Medusa, symbol of purity and a beautiful priestess of the temple of Athena, Goddess of War, lives with her sisters, Esteno and Euríale in perfect harmony.  As a result of her beauty and other qualities, she becomes the object of many suitors, among them, Poseidon, God of the Sea, who rapes her in an attack of madness, depriving her of her most valued treasure, her virginity.

In the eyes of Athena, it is Medusa who must be punished, imposing a devastating sentence, that anyone who looks into her eyes is turned to stone, while Medusa turns from a beauty into a monster with hair of serpents, all of which condemns her to the most absolute loneliness.
Perseus, son of Zeus, Father of the Gods, and of the mortal Danae, who is therefore a demigod, wishes to save his mother, and decides to bring back the head of Medusa.  He begins his voyage in search of the three sisters Grayas (dried-up old witches), getting information to locate the Estingias Nymphs, who possess magical weapons.

Medusa is banished to a desert island and her legend becomes more and more famous, provoking all the warriors of the Mediterranean to want to decapitate her to acquire her powers, but none manages to do so, and all turn to stone.

Medusa is finally beheaded by young Perseus who manages to do it looking at her through the reflection in his shield.

Festival de Mérida

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