Dance Australia

Johan Inger

“I asked myself, why another ‘Carmen’? What could be new and unique and make it matter?”

What sources have you used in creating your version?

My main source was the book from Prosper Merimee, which is told from the point of view of Don Jose awaiting his execution for the killing of, among others, Carmen. Then I also flirted with

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