“Meat. RED. Blood. Heartbreaking flamenco singing, musty guitar playing, suggestive rhythms. The concise words of Federico García Lorca. In their collaboration, Helsinki City Theatre’s dance group Helsinki Dance Company and Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin move in dangerously stereotypical landscapes, but land in a fully cast performance with a personal touch.” (—) “Despite the name, Stadsteatern’s Blood Wedding is not a dance version of Lorca’s play. Both blood and weddings are included, but the performance flows freely, varying silence and slow movements with violent climaxes. It is exactly how flamenco’s dynamics are usually described - explosion and waiting for the next explosion. As in the play and 1930s Spain in general, there is something ominous and threatening in the air.”

“The Blood Wedding on the Pasila stage of the Helsinki City Theater is a gift to all those suffering from world pain, struggling with themselves. Its physical presence, human faith and life force helps you to endure.”
”Sometimes the visuals are almost cinematic, but still not two-dimensional, but rather carnal variations on the theme of the Blood Wedding. It’s a great solution. And how great are the solos and the group scenes that are built for every performer on stage. Flamenco remains the attitude, small hints in costumes that blur gender boundaries, and many pieces of the movement language of the resistance.”

“Helsinki Dance Company and Compañia Kaari & Roni Martin’s Blood Wedding at The Helsinki City Theater’s studio in Pasila is simply a blood-stopping performance.”
”Blood Wedding is a tough and violent piece that fits the current world situation almost as a matter of course. It doesn’t push itself, but it doesn’t leave you alone either. And in my opinion, it’s one of the best performances by either group.”