White Bird Presents: Ballet Hispánico New York

Bizet’s Carmen has haunted the artistic imagination for 150 years — romanticized, exoticized, and endlessly reinterpreted. Now, in celebration of that anniversary, Ballet Hispánico New York — the nation’s leading Latino dance company and recognized as one of America’s Cultural Treasures — reclaims her. Stirring, witty, and spectacular, CARMEN.maquia is the work of Valencian choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, whose Picasso-inspired vision strips away myth to reveal a fuller, more complex woman — intelligent and defiant. Inspired by tauromaquia — the art of bullfighting — CARMEN.maquia breathes contemporary life into this legendary character, fusing it with the grounded sensuality of the paso doble and flamenco. The result is a Carmen who belongs not to the gaze of others, but entirely to herself.