A story about workers, migration, flamenco, Andalusians, Basque culture, women ... An intimate work, while universal.
It is an innovative proposal that combines several different languages. Flamenco and Basque culture, both seen from two points of view: tradition and creation.
Mining is deeply connected with both Andalusian and Basque history. It transformed the territory, opened the doors of modernity and promoted a relationship between peoples that emerged from necessity and the workforce, although it ended up influencing the respective cultures.
The Hierro Burdina team
Interprets
BEÑAT ACHIARY Voice / ADRIANA BILBAO Dance / RAÚL MICÓ Cante flamenco/ GUILLERMO GUILLÉN Guitar / MICHEL QUEUILLE Piano / LUIS MARIANO CASILLAS, ANDER EZEIZA, KOLDO PLAZAS Barrenadores (mining)
ADRIANA BILBAO
Choreography
ADRIANA BILBAO / BEÑAT ACHIARY
Stage direction
MARÍA IBARRETXE
Stage assistant director
GARBIEL ARESTI / ITXARO BORDA / RAÚL MICÓ
Texts
PEIO MENTXAKA / EZKANDRAI / IMAJIK
Production
BEÑAT ACHIARY / GUILLERMO GUILLÉN /MICHEL QUEUILLE / RAÚL MICÓ
Music
BEÑAT ACHIARY
Musical direction
FRAN LÓPEZ DEL CERRO
Stage design
ÁLVARO ESTRADA
Lights design and tech
DIDIER TEILLAGORRY
Sound design and tech
FRAN LÓPEZ DEL CERRO
Costumes design
MARIVÍ REDOLI
Costums
LUIS MARIANO CASILLAS, ANDER EZEIZA, KOLDO PLAZAS
Barrenadores (mining)
Burdina Hierro
The story of an Andalusian migrant woman in the Gallarta mining basin is shown. The announcement of a tragedy leads her to a whirlwind of sadness and despair, forcing her to take refuge in memory. The loss in a foreign land takes center stage, until she finally faces her misery, claiming herself as a woman empowered in a foreign land, complete and self-sufficient. We talk about life, death, the need to leave home, integration, love, the role of women, loss, pain, and overcoming adversity; all this in a specific context: the Basque mining and industrial sector. It is a poetic and emotional work that oscillates between the present and the past, the now and the memory, the here and the there.