Olga Pericet

Rosa, Metal y Ceniza

26 Jan 2013

‘Although short in stature, she commands the stage, her body wrapped in a dress seemingly awash with flowers.’

This is how the New York Times described this revelation of contemporary flamenco dance. In her first major performance Rosa, Metal, Ceniza she weaves modern and classical dance and flamenco into a wondrous, harmonious whole. Dancing in flamenco heels or barefoot, she takes us into areas between genres with magnificent expression and rhythm. Olga Pericet is part of a new generation of dancers and choreographers who are searching for a contemporary flamenco language. She can make her ‘bata de cola’ speak like no other young dancer. The long train that was out of fashion for many years in flamenco dance is making a comeback thanks to innovators like Pericet, who uses it to give the tradition a phenomenal dramatic expressiveness. Pericet handles the ‘mantón’, the graceful shawl, with equal fluency and gives it a new lease of life and flair. Olga Pericet: a new free-form poem in modern flamenco dance.