Ballet Hispánico's Carmen.maquia has elements of Flaminco and Spanish paso doble in the Ballet.
-PJ Gach
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Carmen.maquia by Gustavo Ramírez Sansanoon was first created for and performed by the Luna Negra Dance theatre of Chicago, Ballet Hispánico premiered the full-length narratice dance at the Apollo in New York CIty in 2014. For two nights, December 7 & 8, Ballet Hispánico returns to the Apollo to perform this sensuous, athletic ballet.

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Eduardo Vilaro stated in a press release, "We are thrilled to return to the Apollo Theater with Gustavo Ramírez Sansano's CARMEN.maquia. We are committed to making dance accessible to all audiences with multi-cultural marketing efforts and low-cost ticket prices. We are happy to partner with the Apollo, once again, to make this goal come to fruition."

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 "In 2012, the Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano gave Bizet's 'Carmen' a dramatic and stylish contemporary dance makeover... Forget that flaming red dress," stated Brian Schaefer in his review in The New York Times. "This version of the Gypsy seducer's tragic tale takes place in a bleak, modernist black-and-white world, where contemporary ballet flirts with flamenco and paso doble."

Carmen.maquia is a contemporary ballet inspired by Picasso and Georges Bizet's orginal Carmen. The music for the ballet is taken from various works of Bizet and the Carmen Fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate.

Pick up tickets in person at the Apollo Theater box office (253 W. 125^th Street), or online.