Note: No longer in repertoire!

Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s Spanish-Roma-Jewish-Finnish flamenco orchestra and the dance group of the Helsinki City Theatre invite you to Blood’s wedding.

The Wedding of Blood is contemporary dance and flamenco at its deepest, with lyrics by Spain’s national poet, Federico García Lorca. The wedding of blood is our covenant with overeating and self-deception, senseless consumption and indifference. It is an autopsy of the humanity of animals and the animality of humans.

Avant-garde artists such as Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel lived in Europe at a time when poetry was a weapon and artists were persecuted. Together, they created surrealist art, the images of which crystallized the present time and which already foreshadowed the coming conflagration of the world. Dali and Buñuel fled and Lorca was executed as a prelude to the Spanish Civil War. The Wedding of Blood is dedicated to those artists who plunge into the horns of the bull.

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