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Date

Friday, June 20, 2025 8:30PM

Location

Albuquerque Journal Theatre

Name

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque: Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía: PINEDA

Notes

National Institute of Flamenco and the NHCC present Festival Flamenco Alburquerque: Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía: “PINEDA.” Federico García Lorca wrote Mariana Pineda “at barely twenty years old and with a strong romantic flavor,” as he stated in an interview after its first premiere. However, the origins of the play trace back to the poet’s childhood in Granada and young Federico’s encounter with the bronze statue of the liberal heroine, “proud upon the column, her hair loose, her gaze fixed on the sky, clutching the flag of liberty against her body.” Lorca also recalled himself holding hands with other children, singing the verses of a popular ballad “in a melancholic tone, which seemed tragic to me.” Early in his career as a playwright, the poet felt the poetic imperative to transform that “profound childhood impression” into a theatrical work.

“There are a thousand different Marianas of Pineda. The heroic Mariana, the motherly Mariana, the Mariana in love, the embroidering Mariana, but I wasn’t going to ‘create’ them all.” This is how Federico García Lorca described his protagonist after the 1927 premiere of the play. Among all these possible Marianas, we have chosen to focus on the one Lorca himself evoked: “a woman of deep Spanish roots, who sings of love and freedom in the verses of her life in a way that captures the universal essence of these two great sentiments,” embodying “freedom itself.”

In her debut as Artistic Director of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, Granada-born Patricia Guerrero takes on the challenge of giving body and soul to Pineda. This version explores the full spiritual and expressive power of Lorca’s dramatic poem. Accompanied by an exceptional team, Patricia Guerrero delivers a vibrant and electrifying Pineda, both rooted in Granada and universal, and unequivocally flamenco. A dramatic poem brought to life through dance because, in Federico’s own words, “the stage can only be emotion and poetry: in the word, in the action, and in the gesture.”

$69, $83, $99, $113 & $129 *Price includes the NHCC’s $4 fee.