Ana Pérez

Available for the 2026 festival – 2026/2027 season
Stabat Mater (2026 premiere), (Stans duo version).
On request – Concerto en 37 ½ and L’envol du Tacone, recital

Ana Pérez put on her first pair of flamenco shoes at the age of three. The daughter of contemporary choreographer Patrick Servius and Maria Pérez—a flamenco dancer and director of the Solea Center—Ana grew up under the influence of these two role models. She studied with the greatest flamenco maestros, such as Pilar Ortega, Adela Campallo, and Andrés Marin, in Seville—the birthplace of this traditional art form—where she lived for eight years. She quickly joined Spain’s most prestigious tablaos and Luis de la Carrasca’s Flamenco Vivo company, with whom she toured the world. In 2017, Ana returned to her hometown of Marseille and founded her own company. She then embarked on a creative exploration with the creation of the solo piece “Répercussions,” which led her to explore a more contemporary approach to her dance. Today, Ana continues her experiments, reflecting on her movement, rhythms, and sounds through the lens of flamenco.

Ana Pérez and José Sanchez continue their exploration of the Stabat Mater, a medieval poem depicting a woman standing in the face of the loss of a child. This battered yet upright body embodies both extreme pain and fierce dignity—a vital tension that flamenco dance, through its expressive and organic power, makes palpable.
Following an initial exploration as a duo with the 2024 production Stans, the two artists are developing a new choreographic language for three dancers, a vocalist, and a musician. Through this secular and contemporary version of the Stabat Mater, they seek to create a dialogue between eras and aesthetics within a living architecture, where soundscapes, rhythms, songs, and movements respond to one another, intersect, and overlap.
Here, the guitar, the voice, and the dance form an inseparable triptych, a resilient organism poised between collapse and recovery, to construct a space of struggle, memory, and transcendence. This journey embodies a reinvented flamenco, carried by the intense spirituality of the Marian hymn and the power of the feminine.

Cast
Choreography: Ana Pérez
Dance: Ana Pérez, Miranda Alfonso, Marina Paje
Music: Guitar, Theorbo: José Sanchez
Flamenco vocals: Alberto Garcia

In co-production with Klap, Maison pour la Danse in Marseille; Théâtre Durance, Scène nationale, Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban; Ballet National de Marseille (studio host); Théâtres en Dracénie, Draguignan; Pôle des Arts de la Scène Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille; La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux and La Rochelle; Boom’ Structur, choreographic hub, Clermont-Ferrand; Centre Chorégraphique National d’Aquitaine in Pyrénées-Atlantiques – Malandain Ballet Biarritz – studio residency for the 2025–2026 season; the Arte Flamenco International Festival; the DRAC PACA; the Réseau Danse au Sud; the Haplotés Fund and the Cléo-Thiberge-Edrom Foundation. With the support of the Bouches-du-Rhône Department – Departmental Center for Creations in Residence. And the support of the Centre Soléa and Viavox Production.