Carmen

About this Event

»The Romani community has a toxic relationship with Carmen: one of our few icons to have endured throughout the centuries, she fulfills every stereotype that has ever circulated about us. She is violent, rowdy, untamed, hot-blooded, passionate, thieving, dancing and singing her way into the beds of men with her black haired, femme fatale lack of morality. But we love her. She is a figure of resistance, a symbol of freedom from conformity, a rejection of the role of victim. And last but not least, the portrait of a woman who was ahead of her time.« Riah Knight