Ein Sommerabend getanzter Lebens- und Liebesfreude

An exciting musical journey of discovery into the world's most popular dance, which has been reborn with Concierto Ibérico at the Center for Art in Bremen!

Whether rich or poor, young or old, tall or short: almost everyone in the population knew the basic steps of this improvisational song and dance, which was performed in dance academies and theaters as well as on city streets, in pubs, dance halls, and in the palaces of the upper class. The fandango, Spain's national dance in the 18th century, usually accompanied by guitar and castanets, was and is simply danced joie de vivre!

And—as many prudish contemporaries lamented at the time—the joy of love was also danced: "The bodies move to the cadences of the music, with all their passionate excitement, in extremely voluptuous movements, with stamping feet, glances, jumps, with all their figures brimming with lascivious intentions," complained the dean of Alicante in 1712. And if that's not enough proof of the fandango's charms, even Giacomo Casanova explicitly described the fandango as the "most seductive and voluptuous dance in the world." And he should know...

Iberian Concert

Juan González Martínez – Barock-Posaune (Leitung)
Lea Suter – 16-Fuss-Cembalo
Inés Pina Pérez – Barock-Blockflöten
Miguel Bellas – Spanische Gitarre, Theorbe
Peter Kuhnsch – Perkussion