A woman in a pink tulle dress stands at the back of a wooden stage, covered with lime dust. Slowly, deliberately, she walks forward and bends her body over a chair, carefully arranging her frock as she executes a lingering forward roll. Over and over again she repeats the action, her feet crashing to the floor the only sound as she curls up like a powder puff.
That is the opening of Carnación, the Spanish dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina’s extraordinary exploration of desire, sacred and profane, painful and tender. The piece matches its subject, full of raw energy and passion. Yet at the same time it’s a cleverly formed work, delicate in execution, complex in the feelings it evokes.
