Calentamiento

A superb performer, Rocío Molina has taken her place as a leading light of contemporary flamenco with her intense and audacious dancing. In Calentamiento (the Spanish term for “heating up”), the dancer from the city of Malaga in Spain tirelessly stamps her feet, repeating her virtuoso zapateado (a characteristic flamenco movement) until exhaustion. This virtually solo work, with its cohabitation of dance and words, features several successive characters – including her dance master and several singers – interrupting an internal monologue, which reveals the obsessive relationship of the quadragenarian with flamenco. A shifting set, featuring in turn a dance studio, a theatre stage, and a night club, is the platform on which a vulnerable self-portrait is presented. With haughty elegance, Rocío Molina sets out her doubts and the pain inhabiting her body as a dancer. The woman is revealed, behind the force of nature.