La confluencia
Beatrix Mexi Molnar
La Confluencia is a project that aims to create choreography from a modern flamenco dance language that feeds from its past and its roots and also from contemporary art. A flamenco dance that is a child of the times we are living in. Eight men, eight very specific profiles that, through music and dance, will embody flamenco, the peasant, the bolero, the gipsy, the bailaor, the cantaor, the pregonero, the majo, the manolo, the slave, the convert, the runaway, the guitarist, the barber, the pre-flamenco, the highlander, the American, the Andalusian, the man... the contemporary man.
It was in 2001 when Rafael Estévez and Valeriano Paños decided to form an artistic tandem after discovering that they had many points in common in terms of artistic concepts and vision of dance. In the middle of that year they began an arduous research work that led them to define the profile that characterises the tandem: to combine tradition and the avant-garde. Since the beginning of this artistic and creative journey, they have been investigating movement, experimenting with contemporary forms and those of Spanish dances and flamenco dance, thus creating their own characteristic language and concept of dance and choreography.
