Rocío Molina

Spanish dancer Rocío Molina strips flamenco down to its purest form: a passionate and exhilarating expression of freedom.

For her newest piece, part of this year’s Dance Umbrella, she borrows from feminine, masculine and even animalistic codes to devise a personal performance about womanhood. As she adopts different guises and inventive costumes, provocative and playful images emerge.

At times alone, at others collaborating with four phenomenal onstage musicians, Fallen from Heaven (Caída del Cielo) is a physically demanding progression from shadow to light, silence to sound, order to chaos - a fall with no return.

Molina’s last visit to the Barbican, with Bosque Ardora, proved a hit of Dance Umbrella 2014, earning her an Olivier Award nomination.