Masterclass by María Pagés

María Pagés will share her life story with the audience and present her latest work: Óyeme con los ojos (Hear Me with Your Eyes).

Free admission until full capacity is reached. Invitations can be picked up at the museum ticket office.

Pagés has proven herself to be a pioneer in understanding flamenco as an evolving, contemporary, and living art form, using the fundamental codes of flamenco language and researching both within and outside of it.

For this Sevillian artist, iconoclastic by nature, modernity is tradition in motion. Her creative and aesthetic contribution lies in her serenity in speaking without complexes in all languages and making them accept the hospitality of flamenco.

If there is one thing that defines María Pagés' multifaceted creative uniqueness, it is her deep-rooted ethical sense of culture. She creates because she is convinced that art entails a profound commitment to life and memory.

We all know and proclaim that María Pagés possesses the genius of dance. But there is something more to this woman: she dances, and as she dances, she moves everything around her.

Neither the air nor the earth are the same after María Pagés has danced.

José Saramago

“Every art form needs a Pagés.”

Roger Salas, dance critic, El País

BIOGRAPHY

María Pagés began her career in Antonio Gades' company, whom she considers her undisputed mentor. In film, her participation in Carmen, El amor brujo and Flamenco, by Carlos Saura.

In 1990, María Pagés created her own company, with which she has produced 19 works. The artist and her company have been invited to perform at the most prestigious venues and festivals around the world. María Pagés has collaborated with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Tamara Rojo, Ángel Corella, Plácido Domingo, José Saramago, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others.

In 2002, she won the National Dance Award (Creation) and the ADE Choreography Award in 1996. She was awarded the Léonide Massine 2004 per l'Arte della Danza "Al Valore" and the 2007 Culture Award from the Community of Madrid . The eight Giraldillo Awards from the Seville Flamenco Art Biennial confirm her as one of the most important flamenco dancers and choreographers.

In 2014, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. A year later, Santiago de Chile recognized one of her shows as the best in International Dance, and in 2016 she was awarded the IV Culture Prize from the University of Seville. The newspaper La Vanguardia chose Óyeme con los ojos as the best international dance show of 2016.

Through ARTEDEA, an association founded by the choreographer, she is intensely involved in charitable and educational activities.