Lorca

A top government minister, Josué Alejandro Lorca, said in 2021 that oil spills were “not a big deal because, historically, all oil companies have had them.”

“In Spain,” García Lorca once wrote, “the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

The troupe began life in New York City, in 1983, as Spanish Dance Arts Company, led by Roberto Lorca, a choreographer from California.

I once came across him stretched out on the floor of a bookstore in Portland, Ore., with a Spanish dictionary in one hand and the complete works of Federico García Lorca in the other.

Flashbacks bring us to the summer of 1936, as Xirgu tries to persuade Lorca to escape with her to Cuba, where they will be safe from the right-wing revolt in Spain.