àMiró is Brigitta Luisa Merki's second piece created for her choreography cycle "Spanish Painters". In 2015 the pictorial dance cycle successfully premiered with a showing of the choreography "Ritual & Secreto", dedicated to the portraits of women by Francisco Zurbarán and the music of the period.

In her creation àMiró the choreographer immerses herself in the picturesque, yet poetic world of the painter Joan Miró. The latter is appreciated both as a painter and a poet. His own visual world is full of emotion and releases fantastic and mysterious symbols. It is the combined images of dance, painting and poetry that gave the poetry- and art-loving choreographer the inspiration for her new dance poem àMiró. Dance, visual impressions and poetry form a multi-faceted, secret pact. The dance moves expressed live and breathe the abstract poetry of Miró's imagery. All three art forms, dance, poetry and visual art share a structural commonality, namely rhythm, which represents a formal element in all three. The playful rhythm of Miró's symbolic visual language and the touch of magic and whimsicalness in his painting are closely related to the mystique of the dance. The fragmentation, the symbolism of Miró's imagery are reflected in the dance moves of this choreography. The reductive approach brings the essence and the concentration of the expressive dance to the foreground.

The musical concept emerged and developed from Flamencos en route's most recent musical creation. The experienced musical ensemble, which has performed with the dance company for many years keeps exploring traditional forms and sounds of Spanish music. These have proven to be an inexhaustible source. At the same time, Merki looks for new musical connections to poetry, connections like the ones she already successfully integrated in her production "haiku flamenco".

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Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung

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(...) Merki and her ensemble transcend the boundaries between various art forms. Dance, music, painting, and poetry are combined and form a new entity, an independent work of art. (...)

Arnim Bauer, Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, 10.01.2018

Esslinger Zeitung

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(...) Very different from Merki's earlier productions, «àMiró» combines painting, music, and dance in a dark synesthesia and stimulates the senses as well as the spirit, thus following Miró's own motto: "One thing transitions into another. Everything is part of one entity." Once again, the Swiss choreographer and her intelligent art full of allusions elevate the flamenco to a new level.

Angela Reinhardt, Esslinger Zeitung, 09.01.2018

Stuttgarter Zeitung

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(...) In «àMiró», each individual Flamencos en route performer is an enthusiastically celebrated soloist until the ensemble concludes its homage to Catalan artist Joan Miró in a furioso finale. (...)

Brigitte Jähnigen, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 01.01.2018

Du - Die Zeitschrift für Kultur August/September 2017, Tanz - ein Lebensgefühl

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Ursula Pellaton, Du - Die Zeitschrift für Kultur August/September 2017, Tanz - ein Lebensgefühl, 11.09.2017

Der Bund

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Marianne Mühlemann, Der Bund, 23.12.2016

Der Bund

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Gisela Feuz, Der Bund, 15.12.2016

Wynentaler Blatt

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Evelyn Pesentheiner, Wynentaler Blatt, 02.12.2016

andá

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Sonja L. Bauer, andá, 01.12.2016

Aargauer Zeitung

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An Amalgamation
(...) Every member of Flamencos en route is brilliant and stands out whether s/he performs individually or in the ensemble. (...)

Ursula Burgherr, Aargauer Zeitung, 28.10.2016

Kanal K

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Anita Huber, Kanal K, 27.10.2016

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Like a Painter with Her Paintbrush
(...) The choreographer harmonically intertwines two art forms - dance and painting - without ever creating a product that appears artificial. The dancers' convincing performances contribute to this effect, of course. (...)

Isabelle Jakob, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27.10.2016

Aargauer Zeitung

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Ursula Burgherr, Aargauer Zeitung, 21.10.2016

Rundschau Ausgabe Süd

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Rundschau Ausgabe Süd, 20.10.2016

Aargauer Zeitung

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Aargauer Zeitung, 18.10.2016

Land & Stadt, Regionalmagazin Baden, Wettingen, Limmattal

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Malini Gloor, Land & Stadt, Regionalmagazin Baden, Wettingen, Limmattal, 01.10.2016