Federico García Lorca wrote Mariana Pineda “when she was barely twenty years old and with a strong romantic flavor”, as he stated in an interview after his first premiere. However, The origin of the work dates back to the poet's childhood in Granada and the meeting of the boy Federico with the bronze statue of the liberal heroine., “haughty on the column, hair loose, the look in the sky, pressing the flag of freedom against the body”. Lorca also remembered himself holding hands with other children singing the verses of the popular romance “with a melancholic tone.”, which seemed tragic to me”. Already at the beginning of his career as a playwright, The poet felt the poetic imperative to turn that “deep impression of childhood” into a play..
“There are a thousand different Marianas de Pineda. The heroic Mariana, the mother Mariana, Mariana in love, the embroidery Mariana, But I wasn't going to "do" them all.". That's how he spoke
Federico García Lorca of his protagonist after the premiere of the work of 1927. Of all those possible Marianas, We wanted to attend to what Lorca called: “woman of deep Spanish roots, who sings the verse of his life about love and freedom in a way that acquires the concept of universality of those two great feelings.", “freedom itself”.
In his first direction at the head of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, Patricia Guerrero from Granada takes on the challenge of giving body and soul to Pineda. A version in which all the spiritual and expressive force of Lorca's dramatic poem is explored.. Accompanied by an exceptional team, Patricia Guerrero gives us a vibrant and crampy Pineda, grenadine and universal, and decidedly flamenco. A dramatic poem danced because, again in the words of Federico, “the scene cannot be anything other than emotion and poetry: in the word, in action and gesture".