FUGACES takes as its starting point the iconic singer and flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya (1918–1963), known for her uncompromising style and for challenging established norms within flamenco. Rather than recreating her dance, choreographer Aina Alegre explores how her energy can live on today, as an echo within new bodies and expressions.

The title points to the fleeting: something that appears, shifts, and disappears. The work explores how movement, memory, and impulses can be carried forward without being fixed, and how an artistic legacy can transform over time.

Drawing on archival material, video, and their own interpretations, the ensemble develops a choreographic language where influence and friction are central. Different movement traditions meet in a physical and sensorial landscape where past and present blur into one another.

On stage, eight dancers engage in an intense interplay shaped by rhythm, precision, and energy. Movements are fast and often percussive, with a strong focus on the feet, impact, and the body’s own musicality. The performance unfolds through solos, duets, and collective sequences, where the dancers both challenge and amplify each other’s expressions.

Music and sound are closely integrated with the movement. Rhythms build and break apart, spreading between the bodies like a form of contagion. The result is a charged and dynamic space where the individual and the collective are constantly in motion.

FUGACES is not a flamenco performance, but an exploration of how dance can carry traces of other bodies and times. A work where the fleeting takes shape, if only for a moment.