In 2022, the Milan Flamenco Festival is celebrating 15 years of programming with a specific goal; to move, amaze, inspire and construct. FUTURO DENTRO (future inside) is the common thread that binds the three shows that is taking place on 20, 22 and 24 June on the stage of the Teatro Strehler. In this vision/sensation of the future, there is space for a form of flamenco with a different character, one that is seeking to establish itself as an art among the arts, to boldly express its power and potential and aim right for the spectator; research and combination with contemporary gesturality, dialogue with electronic music, and scenographic innovation, all with a view to conquering dynamics that place flamenco in a different light without robbing it of its essence. 
On 24 June, Eva Yerbabuena, an icon of contemporary flamenco and winner of the Premio Nacional de danza, is presenting D’MADRUGA, a tribute to the late Enrique Morente, an international artist who, through extensive and detailed research, revolutionised cante and flamenco music between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first; the same research undertaken in parallel though Eva Yerbabuena’s dance, underlining the fact that the future also exists in the present.
It is a performance that resonates with pure emotion, and in which Yerbabuena lends body to the voice of the maestro with her distinctive elegance, mastery and personality. Linked by their native Granada, a marked artistic edginess and devotion to their art, each artists’ research has led them to be considered forerunners of modern flamenco in their respective fields. The past, present and future has shaped them. 

Es que a veces hay que molestar porque si no solo somos molestados.
Enrique Morente 

To complete this journey, and return to the point of origin, all I had to do was close my eyes and open my soul without restraint, in order to be able to breathe through his unmistakable voice, which leads me to unusual destinations, to the limits of freedom, leaving fear behind.
Eva Yerbabuena