CARLOS SAURA AND GRANADA

Carlos Saura said that he discovered the flamenco in Granada. It was in the city of the Generalife, in the fifties, when Saura arrived as a photographer for the Festival of Music and Dance.

An experience that would mark his artistic career, because it was in Granada where his passion for the performing arts, especially dance, began.

Granada remembers the master in this way in a work that pays tribute to his way of understanding art through flamenco.

PICASSO AND DANCE

A man like Picasso, whose curiosity went beyond painting, bringing to each of the disciplines he experimented with a new vision and unforeseen solutions, could not be alien to the theatre.

He was associated with Diaghilev's Russian ballets and was married to the dancer Olga Khokhlova, the muse of several of his works.

This experience led him to design different scenographies in which Picasso did not limit himself to following what was stipulated, but within this already defined framework he imposed very different interpretations. As in the rest of his works, and in accordance with Cubist principles, he sought to rediscover the profound reality of forms and objects, achieving, in this case, a new way of understanding the scene, with other dimensions, different density and a play of planes, either with an architectural geometry that suggests the aesthetics of cities or by very strictly delimiting this space, emphasising theatrical artific

This year's theatrical proposal for the cycle LORCA AND GRANADA is a show that condenses the way of understanding dance of three geniuses: Lorca, Picasso, Saura.

Under the artistic direction of Carlos Saura Medrano, the choreographic direction of Andrés Marín and the musical direction of Daniel Doura, the show offers a journey through the experiences and life trajectories of its protagonists. Picasso and dance, an encounter with Lorca in Granada' is the confluence of flamenco, contemporary dance, plastic arts and visual arts in a unique proposal that will delight the public on summer nights, between the 2nd and 26th of August, in the Teatro del Generalife.