| Flamenco
‘Mellizo Doble’, by Israel Galván and Niño de Elche

Niño de Elche provides the singing and music, and Israel Galván, 2005 National Dance Prize winner, provides the dancing. From that union Mellizo Doble was born, a rebellious and groundbreaking proposal that premiered at the El Garlochi Cabaret in Tokyo in September 2019 and is now being presented at the Palma Dansa festival.

In this work, the two artists fuse their tradition and mastery of flamenco with their ability to renew, combining classic flamenco with electronic music or techno. And they do so by talking about machines as tools capable of producing emotions and feelings because, for them, flamenco is the child of the machine age and began with the steam engine, the textile factory and the railway, a companion against the grain of the industrial Revolution.