TAURA

TAURA is a twenty minute dance film created by Inamorata Dance Collective that invokes the spirit of the bull from the matador’s ring, incorporating flamenco and contemporary dance, percussion, poetry and flute. TAURA originated in the question, what if instead of becoming matadors, we became bulls? A grounded and personal lens into the nature of the pasture, capture and death of the bulls in Spain, we explore flamenco outside of its traditional form through the lens of the Latinx diaspora and the natural world.

Photo: Fran Chudnoff

October 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM

About the artist

The Inamorata Dance Collective was founded in 2014 by Mexican Canadian dancer, Sofí Gudiño. Inamorata’s creative focus is on the expansion of flamenco through omitting expectations of the form by classical Spanish traditions. We are exploring strong choreographic and musical risk that are influenced by contemporary, Latinx and queer arts. The intention in this is not to create fusion dance, but rather to create movement informed by these practices, that is dance in its own right. Inamorata’s projects have premiered at Toronto Fringe, Dancemakers, World Pride, New Blue Dance Festival, Nuit Blanche, Next Stage Dance Festival, and more. Inamorata’s first dance film, SOLA, premiered in 2021 at Dancemakers with resounding success.