Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.
Dancers move from the restrictive confines of seventeenth-century-inspired Catholicism to the liberating, empowering passion of flamenco in Patricia Guerrero’s scintillating piece, Catedral.
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras opens this year’s Flamenco Festival London at Sadler’s Wells to well-deserved uproarious applause with their enthrallingly innovative and spectacular show, Sombras.
