This content contains scenes that may shock an uninformed audience.
Do you still want to watch it?
Le vrai-faux film muet qui vous parle !
[The real false-silent film that speaks to you !]
Virtuosic flamenco dancer and choreographer, Veronica Vallecillo likes to shake up traditional genres. In her works, which are characterised by their turbulent style, flamenco dance is subsumed by a plastic, quirky and strangely flamboyant world. Under the aegis of a committed expressionism, this solo combines the arts of dance and cinema, stamping them with a strangely muted flamenco and images from silent films. The piece does not produce any sound, underlining the impact of the image alone on our other senses.
It’s a visual fiction in black and white, and sometimes in red too, a daydream which hints at silent dramas. What if the absence of sound let things be seen? What if the old films of 1920s let something new be understood, allowing things to be questioned, seen with new eyes, listened to with new ears? What if the silence lets silent suffering be heard? What if the body of one lone woman became the torch-bearer for hundreds of women?
Updating: May 2013
