ANDRES MARIN – Desert

XXIV Flamenco Biennial

ANDRES MARIN

Desert

Original idea by Andrés Marín

Baile: Andres Marin

Invited artist: José el de la Tomasa

Piano: Pepe Fernandez

Guitar: to be defined

Creography: Andres Marin

Artistic and musical direction: Andres Marin

With musical epilogue: Alberto Carretero

You have seen: to be defined

Lighting design: Benito Jimenez

Technical direction and sound: Manu Meñaca

Regiduría: Jorge Limosna

Locker room: Roberto Martínez and Andrés Marín

Attire: José Miguel Pereñiguez

Photograph: Luis Castilla

Texts: Luis Ybarra

executive production: Daniel Lazary

Production: Art movement

Co-produced by: Seville Flamenco Biennial and Théâtre de Nimes

Andrés Marín's pieces do not try to address reality, but the truth, a deeper and more essential way to touch the foundation. It would be impossible to build a new Alameda due to the literal nature of things.. This exercise, therefore, It does not reside in the shell of the events that one day occurred, but in that poetic truth, suggestive and deep that allows us to caress the marrow of everything that worries from within.

The Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, has a well-known reality: It was the artistic emporium in which singing became stylized between the 19th and 20th centuries., when the kiosks were made of glass, the albero floor and the meetings at the Siete Puertas. DESERT, however, aims to rise as an author's truth. A truth that explores a dormant echo in time. The loneliness of those shadows that lost their statues, all the stillness locked in hinges stained with silence. loneliness, ultimately, understood as a landscape and a state. That branch without wobble or bird, a whistle out of the air, the fence is up and the guy with an entire wasteland behind his back, already leagues and leagues away from the world.

Stockhausen's music also adds to this narrative. Does not penetrate the truth, but rather it surrounds it like a nebula in order to blur it, make it even more unexplorable and inconcrete, as if it were a backdrop. Helplessness screams without mouth or tongue, like oblivion. He does it through movement and its absence. Also through the sallow light, the scenography and in the death rattles of a centuries-old song that remains buried under sighs of albero, that with a sigh he who sighs for another pays, and so the particles piled up. Everything is immensity and question in this desert. a desert, besides, in which the sand is resignified. Andrés Marín does not show it, but it is part of it, following a strange formula in which you have to bite the dust to dream of total aridity.

ANDRES MARIN

National Dance Award 2022

Giraldillo to the Dance 2020

Andres Marin (Sevilla, 1969) Born into a family of flamenco artists, what has allowed him to live this art since he was little, both through dancing at his father's school, like singing, of which he is a great fan and deep connoisseur. Self-taught training, The feature that distinguishes his career is independence and not being attached to any school., beyond parental teaching.

He begins his professional career in 1992 as a soloist and choreographer for different shows and events until founding his own company in 2002. Currently he is one of the most unique dancers on the flamenco scene.. Their productions have focused on the flamenco tradition and specifically on classical songs., but not from a conventional perspective, but through a very personal style and an aesthetic of absolute contemporaneity.

choreographic director, artistic and musical of his own company, His creations reflect the expressive freedom of deep artistic research. From there is born a poetics rich in suggestive images., at the service of his commitment to art and to himself. Currently he is presented as one of the great innovators of the genre..

Experimentation and risk reign in all of Andrés Marín's works., elements that the artist considers essential for flamenco art to stay alive. These approaches are reflected in their productions: beyond time (2002), Asymmetries (2004), The dawn of the last day (2006), Jonda Vanguard (2006), The sky of your mouth (2008), Passion depending on how you look at it (2010), Op.24 (2011), Marrow (2012), At will (2014), Yatra (2015), White Card (2015), D. Quixote (2017), The Perfect Vigil (2020), Ravel Ecstasy (2021), Straight and alone (2022) and Matarife Paradise (2024).

He has presented his creations in the most prominent European circuits, both the flamenco genre and contemporary dance, among which are: the Lyon Dance House, the Madrid Canal Theaters, the National Theater of Chaillot in Paris, Sadler's Wells in London, the Seville Flamenco Biennial, el Montpellier Dance, the Lille Opera, el Lucent Dans Theater de La Haya, the Latvian National Opera, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, at MC2: Grenoble, the Cannes Dance Festival, the Nîmes Festival, the Jerez Festival or the Barcelona Flower Market. His performances in unique spaces are also notable., confronting his art with other creative disciplines, like the one done in front of one of the works of the National Picasso Museum-Paris

Restless artist, always in search of new ways to immerse the flamenco tradition in unprecedented waters, Andrés Marín has collaborated with artists from various disciplines throughout his career in the conviction that flamenco can dialogue without complexes with other arts.. His actions in collaboration with the plastic artist Pilar Albarracín are framed in this line., the dancer and choreographer Blanca Li, the experimental composer Llorenç Barber, the equestrian theater director Bartabas, hip hop dancer Kader Attou, the Divana Ensemble of Rajasthani musicians, the Basque dancer Jon Maya or the plastic artist José Miguel Pereñíguez, with whom he has collaborated on several productions.

In 2020 He was awarded the Giraldillo del Baile at the Seville Biennial and in 2022, with the National Dance Award in the creation modality by, according to the jury, “move between tradition and avant-garde”. He currently combines his choreographic and artistic activity with the direction of Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, a production office and dance studio based in Seville.

Friday 25 September 2026 – Central Theater: 22:30 hours