Mariana Pineda

In the organizer's words:

Those who oppose a totalitarian system often put their lives at risk. Nevertheless, many people around the world are fighting for their freedom, many women for equal rights.

One of these women was Mariana Pineda, who became a freedom fighter as a teenager in Granada in 1831, rebelled against the Spanish King Fernando VII and ultimately died a martyr's death. Federico García Lorca - a staunch socialist and opponent of Franco's regime - created a literary monument to Mariana Pineda a good 100 years later with a "popular romance" named after her. In it, Mariana Pineda helps her lover Pedro, a revolutionary, to escape from prison. She embroiders a red flag with the inscription "Law - Freedom - Equality" for the rebels. She is soon harassed by Judge Pedrosa - both judicially and sexually - and sentenced to death.

The political poet and playwright Federico García Lorca suffered a similar fate to his title heroine: he was killed by Franco's henchmen in 1936 and his plays were completely banned from Spanish stages until Franco's death in 1975.

Inspired by Lorca's text, the dance theater piece MARIANA PINEDA tells the adventures of an intrepid women's rights activist, providing a deep insight into the soul of the title heroine and linking the story with current socio-political developments.

MARIANA PINEDA is a co-production between the XXTanztheater, the Cologne Opera and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne in 2023.

Nominated for the Cologne Dance Theater Award 2023

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