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Two male dancers are clasping each other, one of them is holding the other off the ground on to his left hip. Both of them are looking at the others hand touching their skin. The man being lifted is wearing y-fronts, the other dancer is wearing beige trousers.
Two male dancers are clasping each other, one of them is holding the other off the ground on to his left hip. Both of them are looking at the others hand touching their skin. The man being lifted is wearing y-fronts, the other dancer is wearing beige trousers.

Carlos Pons Guerra's

Mariposa

DeNada Dance Theatre

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A Queer Tragedy Inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly

Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s inventive reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera. DeNada Dance Theatre’s Madame Butterfly is immersed in a mist of Havana smoke, within which a young man is asked to sacrifice his gender in exchange of love and a better life.

Mariposa is an operatic dance drama that transports Puccini’s Orientalist libretto to post-revolution Cuba, to a dockland world of faded showgirls, hopeful rent boys, troubled sailors and santeria spirits. Engulfed in a tropical storm of repressed desires, this production is a passionate and deeply moving exploration of what we are ready to sacrifice in order to be loved and accepted.

Set to an original score by Spanish composer Luis Miguel Cobo, which takes its inspiration from Caribbean sounds as well as Puccini, with libretto by French- Indian writer Karthika Nair and designs by Ryan Laight, Mariposa is performed by the diverse international cast of DeNada Dance Theatre, a UK Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards nominee in the category of Best Independent Company.

Venue

Studio 1 — MAST Mayflower Studios

Price

From £10.00

Discounts available

Age advice

12+

Running Time

1 hour 30 minutes including an interval

This event takes place at

MAST Mayflower Studios

Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DU 

 Street level access to our foyer & Box Office is through the main entrance on Above Bar Street. 

The MAST Mayflower Studios building

Further Information

Discounts

Executive Members £3.00 off one ticket on top two prices
Executive Plus Members £3.00 off two tickets on top two prices
Schools/Young People’s Group 10+ £8.00 tickets available on Fri 22 Nov on all zones. One free supervisor with every twenty bought. Additional supervisors at full price*
Groups 10+ £5.00 off**
Student Special £5.00 off with valid student ID

*Not available online, please contact schools@mayflower.org.uk to book.

**Not available online, please contact our box office on 02380711811 to book.

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