Wandering sounds

Hosted by Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, University College London

Facilitated by: Paula Rodríguez y Ana Mar García de Quero
Featuring : Irene Pardo (Director Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro)

Open to theatre practitioners and academics

A workshop exploring the connections between Elizabethan theatre and the Spanish Golden Age through the universal language of Flamenco.

The 5-hour session will begin by providing historical contextualization of these traditions, before focusing on the work of authors and poets such as Ana Caro de Mallén and Emilia Bassano, as well as on characters from Shakespeare’s plays whose musical expression serves to explore identity and selfhood.

We will also examine the role of rhythm and poetic meter in both theatrical traditions, considering how these structural elements shape meaning, performance, and musical interpretation within flamenco practice, to interrogate how these forms can be adapted and reimagined through musical language, enabling innovative performative approaches to classical texts today.