ROSARIO TOLEDO. “CUARTETA”
DANCE
DATE // TIME
June 6th, Thursday // 7:00pm
SPACE
Auditorium
TICKET
€18 / €13 with AZ Card (Tickets purchased before May 6th will receive a 50% discount)
REDUCED RATES
Ticket sales only in person at AZ Info: €12,50 for professionals in the sector, persons over 65*, under 30* or with a disability over 33%* (show ID card or proof of disability when buying a ticket) / €13,50 Groups of 8 or more/ €9 person in a wheelchair and companion. All tickets purchased before May 6th will receive a 50% discount. Ticket sales only in person at AZ Info
DOKUMENTUA
Information sheet
"Cuarteta" takes the audience through a rehearsal of the songs and dances of the “carnival quartet”, a carnival group from Cadiz composed of three or five components, never four.
In this context of role reversal, Rosario Toledo, Inma “La Carbonera” and Eva “La Lebri” insist on dancing backwards, singing backwards and laughing backwards. They do so with their ovaries on their cheeks, their lungs on their noses, their heads on their behinds and their backs on their foreheads. A traditional repertoire that is flipped, reversed, altered, disrupted, contradictory and antagonistic.
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“In the process of researching what it means to dance flamenco backwards, we realise how much flamenco is already inverted. We therefore view carnival humour as a way of shaking up the established structure, as a place and time of inversion, where everything can be in front or behind”, explains the artist.
Rosario Toledo is joined on stage by Inma “La Carbonera” and Eva Ruíz “La Lebri”, two traditional flamenco singers who accompany her with curiosity and a willingness to contribute their knowledge to this work. It is a research project from a feminine perspective that leans on Cadiz-carnival humour, with the assistance of Idoia Zabaleta and accompanied by Pedro G. Romero.
Directed by: Rosario Toledo
Dramaturgy and direction assistance: Idoia Zabaleta (Azala)
Dancer: Rosario Toledo
Singers: Inma “La Carbonera” and Eva Ruiz “La Lebri”
Costume input: Carlos Díez
Lyrics: Eva Tubío (aportación mujer and carnaval)
Lighting design: Antonio Valiente
Technical direction/sound: Manu Meñaca
Photography: Carmen Kahlo
Video: Calde Ramirez
Accompaniment: Pedro G. Romero
Production/distribution management: Antonio Juan Giménez (TheOSBmusic)
Production: Rosario Toledo, Azala & The One Step Beyond (TheOSBmusic)
Creative residencies at: Azala (Lasierra), Espacio Silvestre (La Muela), Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao (Bilbao), Garallón (Ozaeta)
Technical residency at: In Progress Flamenco Festival (Torrox)
With a degree in Spanish Dance from the Seville Dance Conservatory, Rosario Toledo (Cadiz, 1977) began her professional career under the guidance of her teacher, Charo Cruz, and is currently part of the dance company of Manuela Carrasco and Antonio El Pipa.
In addition to performing at well-known tablaos in Seville, she also appears as a guest performer in shows with artists such as Javier Latorre, Javier Barón, Antonio Canales, Israel Galván, Joaquín Grilo, Miguel Poveda, Arcángel, Dorantes or José Antonio Rodríguez, among others. She performs as a soloist with Mario Maya in his show De Cádiz a Cuba, la mar de Flamenco.
Working with these masters has shaped the development of her own very personal vision of flamenco dance. A deep, conceptual vision of dance, but at the same time with her feet on the ground, clinging to nature and going out into the street. It was in this context that the Cadiz-born dancer immersed herself in the development of projects with her own company, garnering enormous success with critics and audiences and rising to the status of must-see dancer on the current flamenco scene.
“Dancing backwards, singing backwards, laughing backwards”.
