Tanzcompagnie
Flamencos en route
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Productions
ay! viñetas de Lorca
The dance company Flamencos en route celebrates its 35th season with a special production: "ay!". Alive with music and dance, ay! leads the audience into the poetic universe of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
The exclamation "ay!" is ubiquitous in ... more »
rondo flamenco
A sound scenario in which dance, song and music surrender themselves to the energy of a vertiginous round dance. European, South American and Arabic musical gems presented in new vocal interpretations make this Flamencos en route production sparkle. They guide ... more »
IKARUS, stirb oder flieg
The t&kk production 2019 entitled “IKARUS, stirb oder flieg” (ICARUS, die or fly) tells the tragic Greek myth of Icarus’ flight in the unique ambience of the Königsfelden Monastery Church; an international dance ensemble lends Icarus new wings. Contemporary-flamenco and ... more »
MOSAICO
Together, Spanish Dancer and Choreographer David Coria and Brigitta Luisa Merki, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Flamencos en route, explore the creative potential of the mosaic by combining their different choreography styles. Contemporary and archaic dance and music motives inspire ... more »
Bolero. Tanz der Feuertaube
The dancing fire pigeon from Silja Walter's poetry draws its circles above the events unfolding on stage and weaves dance, music and painting into one genre-crossing total work of art. In a unique collaborative project created by the dance company ... more »
Ritual & Secreto
Ritual & secreto is a production in which dance and music figure prominently. Its secret lies in the way the ritualistic dance parts and the closely connected music, song, and rhythmic elements work together.
The choreography of "Las Santas ... more »
haiku flamenco
haiku flamenco - A dance poem, specifically created for smaller, unconventional performance locations. In this creation Flamencos en route explores and transforms the poetic power of the haiku. Just like in other parts of the world, the traditional haiku, a ... more »
adónde vas, Siguiriya? - Capricho Flamenco
adónde vas, Siguiriya? - Capricho Flamenco
"Among black butterflies / Goes a dark-haired girl / Next to a white serpent / Of mist. / Earth of light, / Sky of earth.... / Where are you going, Siguiriya," Federico García ... more »
perlas peregrinas
perlas peregrinas - The title of this choreography is a reference to the legendary pearl called "La Peregrina", which once traveled from the Spanish Court to many royal jewel cases all over the world. However, it was not so much ... more »
paso por paso
The creation "paso por paso" - Step by Step - relies on proven, traditional step and sound material from the art of flamenco. At the same time, it makes rapid progress and ... more »
babel. torre viva
A "tower-dance-art-piece", "babel.torre viva" revives the indistructible myth of the tower: choir sounds of different eras are layered on border-crossing dance and music performances, building up to a Babilonian polyphony. The tower and the nave become a ... more »
canto amor
"canto amor"
The Myth of Orpheus - a Dance Project in Musical Theater Form
Choreography in Five ScenesIn a dialogue involving various styles of music and dance choreographer Brigitta Luisa Merki creates a new form ... more »
orfeo.euridíce.das paradies
Dance & Art Königsfelden 2011: "orfeo.euridíce.paradise" is the third part of the Dance & Art Königsfelden trilogy. The collaboration of various forms of art plays also in this production an important role. The performance takes place in the nave as well ... more »
florescencia
florescencia – blooming season: 25 years ago, Brigitta Luisa Merki founded the dance company Flamencos en route. Her teacher, the legendary dancer and choreographer Susana and her husband Antonio Robledo enrolled as the first artistic directors. Brigitta Luisa Merki dedicates this ... more »
a flor de piel
a flor de piel - very close: The dance company takes you to a tryst into a niche of a most wonderous and mysterious garden as can only florish on a small, intimate stage like the ThiK in Baden. Fantastic ... more »
caleidoscopio
Tanz & Kunst Königsfelden - caleidoscopio: The second event out of the trilogy "Tanz und Kunst Königsfelden" - "Art and Dance Königsfelden", is the prelude to the 25th anniversary of the dance company Flamencos en route. The choreographer Brigitta Luisa ... more »
a solas y a dos
a solas y a dos - alone and together: Flamencos en route puts the dialogue at the center of their newest choreograpic experiment. An obliging eye contact is generated, an imminent language of the bodies, a danced conversation. A lonely ... more »
resonancias
Tanz & Kunst Königsfelden - resonancias: Flamencos en route and their artistic director, Brigitta Luisa Merki, show the first part of the trilogy, opening the new cycle "Dance & Art Königsfelden" in the minster in Königsfelden, Switzerland.The renowned ... more »
El círculo mágico
The extraordinary combination of these independent artistic forces from the worlds of music, vocal performance, and dance employs new sounds and images to lead the audience through the landscape of Spanish songs portrayed so longingly and expressively by Lorca ... more »
Caprichos Flamencos
The capricho as an artistic way of expressing unlimited imagination and free creation gives this production its character, both in dance and music. It stands for the vividness of an idea or mood, for spontaneity and imagination, for darkness ... more »
Antonia y Antoñita
Antonia and Antoñita, two somewhat different flamenco dancers, are touring the globe for an extended period of time and stop at the ThiK in Baden to put on their show. However, they encounter considerable difficulties with their guest performance. ... more »
Centaura y Flamenca
Centaura y Flamenca at the ThiK, Theater im Kornhaus: The Centaura, half horse and half woman, is a metaphor for two opposing forces in one body, a creature torn between spiritual yearning and animal nature. This creature symbolizes both, the ... more »
Fragmentos I
Fragmentos I - Flamencos en route in residence in theThiK
A big dance company in a small theatre
Fragmentos I is an experience of music and dance in a most intimate space, a firework display of emotion and poetry. ... more »
Soleá and the Winds
Soleá and the Winds
represents the realisation of a concept for a new dialogue between Flamenco and contemporary dance. Brigitta Luisa Merki and Colin Connor , provides a platform for an encounter ... more »
El canto nómada
el canto nómada: Andando se hace camino
The nomadization has become the model situation of many people.
There are the voluntary migrants searching for change and cultural mobility and the involuntary nomadic people, forced to departure or flight.
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Capricho amor
Capricho Amor
�Capricho� means mood, caprice or idea, obstinacy and arbitrariness, and �Amor�, the love, is the most sang about, inexhaustible theme in the Flamenco.
�Capricho Amor� revolves about the self-willed love moods of a spanish dancing couple.
The ... more »
La Celestina
La Celestina
Thematic work basis
The following information built the background for the work of �Flamencos en route� and they were included in the definitive production in one or the other form.
Presumably in the year ... more »
Entre mariposas negras
Entre mariposas negras
Besides the singing, the rhythm is the most formative and most very own element in the flamenco. As pitilessly cogent and dominating he is, as infectiously tempting is its fundamental effect. Its vibrations are language and ... more »
Contrastes
Contrastes
Obsesi�n
Choreography: Susana
Music: Antonio Robledo
The musical base of this creation is an old, today hardly known any more flamenco singing: a Bambera.
It resounds in its original form at the beginning. The ... more »
Jubiläumsproduktion 35 Jahre fer
In 1984 the choreographer and artistic director Brigitta Luisa Merki founded the international company Flamencos en route, for which she created countless full-length works. In the European dance scene, the company stands for continuous creation, for a joy ... more »