In MEMORIA: Capacidad de recordar, Carmen Talegona treats memory as an active capacity—something the body must re-enter, not a story it simply retells. The work is built as an interior journey: remembrance appears as both refuge and engine, carrying scars, gratitude, and the quiet labor of resilience.

A set of recurring images structures the choreography. Talegona “captures” memories by returning to emotion as a method; what is remembered is registered through touch, breath, and muscular response, including the tactile trace of embraces. Spatially, the piece keeps finding its bearings through north, south, east, and west—cardinal directions that function as a compass for inner navigation. From that grounded search, the dramaturgy opens into a vertical imagination: “flight” between points that connect earth and universe, where faith is articulated as a support for living and for holding art as both rudder and lifeline.

Under the artistic and stage direction of Ángel Rojas, the performance world layers traditional flamenco forces with contemporary texture. Live guitar (Antonio González) and cante (José Manuel Fernández), with palmas by El Truco, anchor the work in compás, while electronic music by Jose Romero “Josswing” expands the sound space. Actor/narrator Pablo Durán threads an interior voice through the stage action. Rojas’s staging—lighting, costume, and a sculptural installation-object by Claudia Stilianopoulos—supports the work’s clarity without turning memory into illustration.

The piece culminates in its central insistence—recordar que recuerdo (“to remember that I remember”)—as an affirmation of attention: remembering each minute step, each verse danced with the body, and the furrow it leaves behind.

MEMORIA: CAPACIDAD DE RECORDAR is a production of Carmen Talegona and soumahproject+, made possible with the collaboration of the Ayuntamiento de Móstoles (artistic residency, with special thanks to María Luisa Mora.

Top Photo: Carmen Pazos