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Pilar Montero Lopez

María La Ribot presents 'The madness of Queen Joanna' in Brussels swansong

Of the female names erased by history, that of Joanna I of Castile is among the most obvious, swallowed by the black shroud that consumed the monarch until all that remained of her was the epithet ‘Joanna the Mad’.

The vanishing of light is precisely one of the central metaphors in 'Juana Fiction'. It's the work with which dancer and choreographer María La Ribot brought to an end a cycle of more than 30 years working in parallel with this historical figure who premiered in 'El triste que nunca os vido' (The sad one who never saw you, 1992).

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