À l’Espagnole is a scenic fantasy based in the artistic cross-fertilisation between Spain and France throughout history, specially in the XVIIth century: one of the most fertile periods in the long history of Spanish influences in French society, a time in which the image of Spain in the cultural life of its neighbouring country varied its colour depending on the political events that marked the Parisian court and society; due to diplomatic tensions, interests and disagreements, the Spanish style spread out all around France in a irregular but very significant way. In the musical context, this love-hate relationship, of seduction and rejection, adoption and transformation of the forms à l’espagnole —mostly through dances coming from America and soon assimilated in Spain—is our source of inspiration to offer a performance in which contemporary dance, theater and live music go hand in hand in a interdiscpinary dialogue.  The copy, travel and frontier will be the choreographic inspiration axes.

A coproduction of Compañía Antonio Ruz, Accademia del Piacere (director: Fahmi Alqhai) and Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in collaboration with Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales. With the support of Centro de Danza Canal, Madrid.