Quimeras

Free Flamenco Guitar and Song Introduction

Buleria - Solea | Nimba - Soko

Flute | Guitar Solo

Semuna

Dougoulente (A Work Dance)

Buleria Trio

Tanguillos | Um Muyee (Song of Travel)

Tientos (A Dream)

Buleria | Fore Sacre (A Confrontation)

Fiesta

Tanguillos

Farruca

Alegrias

Sevillanas

Kalaboka (African Rap)

Saeta

African Blues

Relato (Guitar and Poem)

Buleria Final | Sonsoner

Tangos - Rumba | African Salsa

My sweat-drenched earth is fruitless now

I sense a voice calling me away

My destiny is to walk

As if following a dream

Whose end I cannot see…

In spite of it all

I will continue to dream

And sail through my sea of hopes

Until I may fuse them with yours

Extracts of a song from Quimeras

World premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival, London 2010

Devised by

Paco Peña

Director

Jude Kelly

Musical Concept by

Paco Peña

Original Music

Paco Peña, Rafael Montilla, Paco Arriaga, Aboubacar Syla

Assisted by

José Angel Carmona

Original Flamenco

Choreography Marco Flores, Olga Pericet

Revised by

Angel Muñoz, Fran Espinosa

African Choreography

Alboury Dabo, Sonia Sampayo

Lighting Design

Tom Wickens

Original Lighting Design

Aideen Malone

Costumes

Linda Rowell

Elvira Peña

Poem written by

Caroline Bird

Sound Design

Elena Peña

General Management

MPM London

PACO PEÑA uses D'Addario, Pro-Arté strings on all his instruments.

Guitars made by GERUNDINO, in Almería and by HERMANOS PEÑA, in Córdoba, Spain

Special thanks to SOUND NETWORK for their continued support and for providing the DPA mics used in these performances.

Our thanks to IMAE Gran Teatro, Córdoba, for their support during pre-production of this show.