Rocío Molina - Caída del Cielo

As part of the XXI Suma Flamenca festival, flamenco dancer Rocío Molina performs on 30 October in the Sala Roja Concha Velasco at Teatros del Canal a show in which she transforms the fall into a celebration of the body and of freedom.

The work is conceived as a passage and a descent between light and shadow, in which the dancer examines the limits of silence, music and noise in order to build a stage space where the visible and the hidden ultimately take shape in movement.

The body stands at the centre of the proposal. Molina establishes a different relationship with the floor and turns every blow, every displacement and every gesture into part of a physical exploration that connects dance with the earth. Her movement springs from a corporeality deeply rooted in the experience of being a woman, and it transforms the stage into a territory of celebration, strength and freedom.

Molina draws on her essential codes and carries them towards other artistic territories, where different ways of understanding the body and representation coexist. The result is a flamenco that does not renounce its roots, yet does not submit to them either, open to risk and to the incorporation of new languages.

Choreographer and dancer, Rocío Molina has developed a language of her own, drawing on the flamenco tradition and its dialogue with contemporary creation. Her work combines technical virtuosity with research and conceptual risk, and forges connections with disciplines such as cinema, literature, philosophy and painting.

Over her career she has received numerous honours, among them the Premio Nacional de Danza in 2010, the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes in 2022 and the León de Plata de la Danza at the Venice Biennale that same year. She has also received the Premio de Danza Positano and several Premios Max and UK National Dance Awards.