© Photo by Heather Mull

©CLG/ Video still

Yerma

By Federico Garcia Lorca

Directed by Melanie Dreyer for Quantum Theatre

Video Design and Concept: Carolina Loyola-Garcia & Jose Muniain

April 2 - April 26, 2009

6000 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA - USA

Yerma is a deeply musical folktale, blending song and poetic text into a modern story of unbridled yearning. Feel the rhythm of many generations of a rural Spanish community as a lone woman wields the forces of the earth against a man-made fate.

Quantum unites this 20th century classic with the irrepressible art of flamenco, performed by Cihtli Ocampo and Ethan Margolis, members of the renowned Arte y Pureza from Seville, Spain. Media artists Carolina Loyola-Garcia, who enlivened Quantum’s Red Shoes in 2007, and Jose Muniain collaborate to create an innovative setting of projected, moving images to tell a story of unrelenting passion.