Stories that inhabit an anachronistic time and are born within each other: a flamenco dancer in Hades, Cupid in the May Crosses of Granada, or Medea plucking a chicken. Fragments of the Night, whose absolute premiere takes place in 18 º Flamenco Esch Festival in Luxembourg On May 22, it is the new project of Sara Jiménez in Company, in which the dancer and choreographer explores the mythological imagery through the flamenco and contemporary dance, revealing intimate reflections on the artist's role as an actress in a theatre where spectacle and reality merge. Under the original idea, direction and choreography of Sara Jiménez herself, with co-scenic direction and dramaturgy of Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola, the musical direction and the cante de Theresa Hernandez and the musical composition and guitar of José Manuel Muñoz 'El Peli', the work will arrive in Spain on May 31 –Real Coliseo Carlos III de San Lorenzo del Escorial– as part of the programming of the 40 Madrid Dance Festival.
Fragments of the Night unites the imaginaries of mythology and flamenco to travel on an imaginary journey through different classical myths "like someone who looks from one constellation to another, thus confusing the mythological landscape and the present time." From Orpheus to the wedding of Cupid and Psyche with the mythical sevillanas of Alosno as a soundtrack, from popular festivals tattooed in the collective memory to the story of Medea reread from our days, this work is born from the conviction that with dance and literature and the contemporary or the flamenco As tools, "it is possible to explore the nocturnal territory of the mythical experience and shed light on it to understand how it speaks to us today." And in parallel, to discover how Sara Jiménez relates to the audience, to whom she presents herself as a storyteller whose intention is to stir a range of emotions to "tear the spectator's heart open." In short, and using the verses of the Cuban poet and novelist Jose Lezama LimaThis montage was created to traverse the fragments of the night “like a hare penetrating its darkness, separating two stars resting on the brightness of the damp grass.”
«Fragments of the Night unites the imaginaries of mythology and the flamenco to travel on an imaginary journey through different classical myths "like someone who looks from one constellation to another, thus confusing the mythological landscape and the present time."
On the threshold of theatre and dance, the work is one of the 30 projects selected for the 2025 artistic residencies of the Canal Choreographic Center (CCC) of Teatros del Canal, an initiative of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid that seeks to promote the creation, research and development of new choreographic languages, and in whose process the Granada-born dancer and choreographer is currently immersed. In-Progress residences, driven by the Torrox Town Hall y Flamenco Festival In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Concienciarte Foundation, they also hosted their creative and technical development last March. This is a unique meeting space for artists. flamencoemerging and renowned artists, who has witnessed in three editions the unique vision and innovative talent of Sara Jiménez, who precisely with the help of the 24th edition of the Flamenco New York Festival recently debuted on the stages of the Big Apple and Chicago.
In a creative line already explored in Goodbye y Silver bird, the sound space of Fragments of the Night is dominated by the dialogue between flamenco and contemporary music, in addition to the use of voices, instruments, and a careful selection of lyrics. The choreographic, scenic, and lighting elements, in turn, take part in the rhythm, dramatic tension, and the physical space itself, understood as a blank canvas. The performance, which can be seen in Luxembourg and Madrid on the first announced dates of what promises to be a prolific tour, continues the artistic journey of a creator who strives to understand in a free and personal way the new possibilities of flamenco.
Jiménez has been recognized with awards such as Best Dance Performer for the PAD Association (Andalusian Dance Professionals) for Silver bird and has nominations for best female dance performer at the MAX Awards. Performing arts awards for which it is nominated in five of its 20 categories this year Silver bird with the nominations for Best Dance Show, Best Female Dance Performer, Best Choreography, Best Costume Design and Best Lighting Design. The metaphor of the bird and dressage hover over this piece with which Sara Jiménez will be the April 29 at the Theatre Le Ranelagh in Paris by the Instituto Cervantes, On May 10th in the town of Carboneras, Almería, thanks to the Andalusian Public Theater Network, and in the fall, among other dates to be announced, in Madrid.
