¡LORCA!
If I die, leave the balcony open.
The boy is eating oranges.
(From my balcony I hear him.)
The reaper scythes the wheat.
(From my balcony I feel it.)
If I die, leave the balcony open!
— Federico García Lorca
Living flamenco legend Carmen Linares, recent Premio Nacional de Danza winner Rafaela Carrasco, flamenco piano master Pablo Suárez, and Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin meet in the room of Spain’s national poet Federico García Lorca, outside whose walls the world is going crazy.
¡LORCA! features Linares’ interpretation and Roni Martin’s new arrangements of Lorca’s 1931 flamenco poems, which are deeply rooted in Andalusian Roma, Jewish, and Arab traditions. It took only five years from the recording of these poems to Lorca’s murder and the creation of Picasso’s Guernica.
On stage
Carmen Linares
Rafaela Carrasco
Pablo Suárez
Roni Martin
Sanna Salmenkallio
Erno Haukkala
Production
Script and direction Roni ja Kaari Martin, Atro Kahiluoto
Poems Federico García Lorca
Composer Roni Martin and trad
Music arrangement Roni Martin, Pablo Suárez
Choreography Rafaela Carrasco
Lighting and stage design, projections Jukka Huitila
Mixing Eppu Helle
Costume design Erika Turunen
Dress making Ateljee Hurma
Make-up Tuija Luukkainen
Graphic design and photography Emilia Annala
