In 1933, the great Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) wrote his best known play Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) after reading a newspaper account of a young bride in Andalusia who abandoned her husband-to-be on their wedding day to escape with her childhood sweetheart.

Lorca evokes the spectacle of human passion through a sophisticated and often surrealistic poetic technique, transforming the love story into a tragedy of fate.

The play was staged the same year and soon became immensely popular in Spain. Ever since, many directors and choreographers have revived the violent and passionate story.

Among those to tackle Blood Wedding are renowned Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer Antonio Gades (1936-2004), and Carlos Saura, who made it the first of his flamenco movie trilogy, before Carmen and El Amor Brujo.

Now, another Spanish choreographer and dancer, Paco Mora, offers a groundbreaking new adaptation of the powerful story.