Sara Jiménez

In an imagined time and landscape, a hunter shoots a bird. After it falls, he discovers that in the act of killing, he has made himself the prey.

Ave de plata explores, through the use of myth, an intimate and personal universe. The idea of love —in the broadest sense of the word— and the conception of life and death as a regeneration of life take center stage in a work where both celebration and tragedy coexist.

The metaphor of the bird and of taming runs throughout this piece by Sara Jiménez, in which flamenco meets contemporary dance and music. Through this encounter, the piece becomes a reflection—using the body and movement as tools—on flamenco in all its expansions, angles, and fractures, as well as its position at the crossroads between the traditional, the experimental, and the identity-based.

Performance included in the Discover Dance, Flamenco Women, Flamenco, and New Creators series.