Querencia
Russian Premiere

Concept and Choreography: Antonio Najarro
Music: Moisés Sánchez
Performance: Orquesta de Extremadura (OEX)
Sound Recording: Javier Monteverde (Cezanne Producciones)
Percussion (Flamenco): Odey Lizaso
Lighting: Pau Fulana
Costumes: Yaiza Pinillos
Costume Production: Lourdes Boam, Gabriel Besa, Rubén Carreño, Lorena Marcelo, Sancha Tradición Popular
Shoes: Gallardo
Hats: Sombrerería Medrano
Shawls: Pertíñez
Shawl Dyeing: Maria Calderón
Producer: Antonio Najarro S.L.
Management: Gachi Pisani
Director: Antonio Najarro
Choreographer: Africa Paniagua
Producer: Rubén Carreño (Antonio Najarro S.L.)
Technical Director: Raúl Mallol

Running time: 70 minutes without intermission
The Alexandrinsky Theatre
12+
APRIL 14 and 15 2026
8 pm
Querencia is a longing for the place where the soul truly belongs. In Antonio Najarro’s production, that place is Spanish dance itself — its essence, its heart. Heir to a great tradition, Najarro invites the audience on a journey not into the past, but inward, toward the deepest meanings of the art form, rediscovering them anew.

Here, striking visual effects serve the choreography: from the virtuosic precision of Escuela Bolera* and the fiery freedom of flamenco emerges duende — the very soul of Spanish dance. Luminous symphonic music weaves the eternal and the contemporary into a single, powerful flow.

Querencia is a performance to be felt. It speaks a language understood without words — through the proud architecture of the human body, a gesture that strikes sparks from the air, the resonant silence between notes. This is Spanish dance in its purest form — flawless in its essence.

*Escuela Bolera - a dance tradition that emerged from the fusion of popular Spanish dances and classical ballet

“…Querencia is a mosaic. Each of its eleven parts possesses its own identity, always inspired by the many branches that make up Spanish dance.”

“…the sextet of castanets — pure ingenuity and perfectionism — emerges as the highlight of the evening.”

“…it felt as though we were witnessing the launch of a magical ship, setting sail to traverse the seas of the world under the banner of Spanish dance.”

— MERCEDES ALBI

“In Querencia, eleven various and contrasting abstract scenes unfold, performed by a young, powerful and energetic company. They flow with serenity and, above all, elegance, through seamless transitions that offer a captivating journey across many forms of Spanish dance. Particular attention is given to stylized dance, which the choreographer has long demonstrated to be both his vulnerability and his greatest strength.”

— Omar Khan

— Revista SusyQ
— AlbiDanza