This has been the performance of Spain in Eurovision 2023: Blanca Paloma paralyzes the festival with the flamenco of ‘EaEa’

White Dove he has done it again. Just as it happened in the Benidorm Festthe Spanish singer has paralyzed Eurovision 2023 during the three minutes that his performance on the Liverpool stage lasted with the song ‘EaEa’, the proposal that Spain has presented this year to the popular contest to try to achieve a victory that has resisted since 1969 (Salomé, ‘Vivo cantando).

Throughout her performance, Blanca Paloma has once again demonstrated her great vocal and interpretive capacity. The woman from Elche, her three dancers, Angélica Moyano, Paloma Scharfhausen and Paula Valbuena, and her two clappers, Desiré Paredes and Saray Frutos, have returned to the stage with their characteristic strength and determination, the main value of a performance that captivates the audience like a magnet from the first second.

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In addition to the artistic power of Blanca Paloma, Spain’s proposal has been wrapped in a careful staging to the millimeter, from the beginning, when Blanca Paloma appears surrounded by a giant curtain that represents her grandmother’s fringed cloak to empower herself through of her ancestors, until it ends, with an epic finale in which Blanca Paloma energetically faces an unknown future.

The lighting has been essential to create that atmosphere desired by the team. Álvaro Guisado is behind the play of lights of the Spanish proposal. Since Benidorm Fest 2022, he uses a lighting technique with spotlights with Blanca Paloma at the beginning of the performance with the aim of not revealing everything from the first moment. “Light, as a symbol of fire, ignites that past to generate a rite of purification and elevation,” explained José Pablo Polo, producer of ‘EaEa’ these days.

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For the realization, Bentor Albelo and Javier Rojo, responsible for the staging, have used a total of 12 cameras among which are the spidercamthe steadycamthe railcam and the hot head, among others. During the days that Blanca Paloma has been in Liverpool preparing her performance, her team has had to deal with those responsible for the BBC, organizer of Eurovision 2023, to agree on the terms of the Spanish proposal. The result has been very similar to the design that Spain brought from home, but the British public channel has been unable to reproduce some plans that the Spanish delegation demanded.

This has been the performance of Spain in Eurovision 2023

The performance is made up of 35 different shots. The production intends to follow the structure of the song, combining close-ups and detail shots to generate intimacy with general shots that open up the space and empower the presence of Blanca Paloma. The references in acting, explain Bentor Albelo and Javier Rojo, responsible for the staging, are very varied: “From the most obvious, such as Lorca, through the Argentine screenwriter and director Gaspar Noé, brutalist architecture or the essence of the copla and the cuplé”. They have also wanted to wink at Spanish cinema. Specifically, the work of Carlos Saura and Pedro Almodóvar. “There are specific planes that seek to generate images with a visual, aesthetic and emotional impact from the most absolute simplicity”, they indicate. In short, the staging focuses on them, on the women, the true protagonists of this rite of invocation and catharsis.

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