DeNada Dance Theatre in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Joe Armitage

Marivi Da Silva in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Boneshaker Photography

Marivi Da Silva and Antonette Dayrit in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Emma Kauldhar

DeNada Dance Theatre in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Joe Armitage

Phil Sanger in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Joe Armitage

Phil Sanger and Azzurra Ardovini in Carlos Pons Guerra's O Maria. Photo: Maria Falconer

O Maria

A Tale of Ham and Bondage

Inspired by the numerous stories of Marian apparitions in rural Spain, Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba and even scenes from the ballet Giselle, O Maria takes place in a stifling kitchen of 1950's Seville. An unexpected heavenly visitor unleashes a torrent of unquenchable desires for an oddly paired couple: a religious woman with a feeding fetish and her tightly bound husband. Divinely subversive, this kitschy kitchen drama for three dancers upturns all gender expectations to a delicious soundtrack of mambos and flamenco.

Premiered December 6th 2013, The Riley Theatre, Leeds Set and costume design by Ryan Dawson Laight

"Rapturous” The Observer
“Innate intelligence and theatricality” Dance Europe

Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra

Costume: Ryan Laight

Lighting design: Barnaby Booth

Duration: 25 minutes

Media:

Trailer for Ham and Passion, a triple bill of dance choreographed by Carlos Pons Guerra for DeNada Dance Theatre. Works: Young Man!, O Maria and Passionaria. Performed by Victoria Da Silva, Sabrina Ribes Bonet, Joao Maio and Margherita Eliot. Filmed by Dan Tucker www.denada-dance.com

Duet from O Maria, choreographed by Carlos Pons Guerra for DeNada Dance Theatre's triple bill, Ham and Passion. Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra Dancers: Azzurra Ardovini and Phil Sanger Music: Bellini

Choreographer & Artistic Director of DeNada Dance Theatre, Carlos Pons Guerra, talks about 'O Maria' which will be coming to the Unity Theatre on 11th November, part of our Dance Triple Bill.