Type: Flamenco Ballet
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Performed by: Antonio Gades Company
Director and Choreographer: Antonio Gades
Soloists: Cristina Carnero, Angel Gil
Year: 2011

Blood Wedding is a searing flamenco ballet where love defies duty, and fate carves its path in silence. Through Antonio Gades’s choreography, a bride breaks from her vows and flees with the lover she cannot forget, setting in motion a dance of passion and doom. The ballet premiered in 1974 and is renowned as a modern flamenco classic because of its cultural authenticity and dramatic power. This production uses minimalist lighting and sparse staging to draw all focus to the movement itself.