13/07/2010 Bailaores Review News

Matilde Coral, happy for the Spanish flamenco gratitude.

Matilde Coral

The dancer and the dean of the greatest dancers from Sevilla, Matilde Cora, is happy for the absolute gratitude that the Spanish flamenco world is showing, because flamenco is, for her, hier whole life.

Matilde Coral assures that since a few years "flamenco has its fully deserved place". This week, the flamenco dancer will be present at the flamenco classes offered by the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in Carmona (Sevilla). The dancer also said that flamenco had lucky and bad times but today it is living in the fullness, and it's something marvellous".

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08/07/2010 Bailaores Festivals Dance Shows News

The choreographer Javier Latorre gave shape to the flamenco spirit through "El duende y el reloj" production

El coreógrafo Javier Latorre dio forma al espíritu del flamenco a través de su montaje 'El duende y el reloj'

'El duende y el reloj' by Javier Latorre

The choreographer Javier Latorre gave shape to the flamenco spirit through "El duende y el reloj" production, yesterday night in the Gran Teatro, a work that brings together fiction and reality through the dance, according to the original script of the tale by Philippe Donnier. The time of the show has been delayed, from 22.00 to 23.00, because of the football match of Spain. This is the first production of Latorre for his new company, Requetedanza. The production has been designed in order to understand flamenco easily, using the new technologies and animation.

According ti the title of this production, the "duende", magician (Karen Lugo), and the watch, "el reloj", are the main characters of this show. The first one, the "duende" is the innovator, and the second one is characterized by its immobility, a posture that the magician treis to change all along the show, showing the watch the different "palos" of the flamenco. Latorre also made appear other historical characters such as Léonard de Vinci, René Descartes, Albert Einstein or Salvador Dali; he used the Soft Watches like as an excuse to explain the slowing down of the fandangos ryhthm.

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05/07/2010 Festivals Shows Music News

The XXX. Guitar Festival starts in Cordoba.

Cartel del 30 Festival de la Guitarra de Córdoba

The Guitar Festival of Cordoba, the most important, totally dedicated to this instrument, and celebrating its 30. edition, offers more than 32 concerts and starts tomorrow with the "Misa Flamenca" by Paco Peña, the founder of this festival, born in 1981.The Patio de los Naranjos of the mosque-cathedral of Cordoba will be the stage for the work of Peña, one of the most played flamenco mass in the world and counting with the participation of the singer "El Pele".This will be the first of a lot of concerts, joining the most important names of the guitar, until July 25.

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01/07/2010 Bailaores Shows Madrid News

The dancer Rafael Amargo presents his new show "Princesas del Flamenco"

El bailaor granadino Rafael Amargo presenta hasta el 4 de julio en el Teatro Hägen Dazs-Calderón de Madrid su espectáculo 'Princesas del Flamenco'

Playbill Princesas Flamencas

The dancer from Granada, Rafael Amargo, presents his new show "Princesas del Flamenco", from July 4. at the Hägen Dazs-Calderón Theater in Madrid. He's dipping into the flamenco roots to show the talent of two dancers, Susana Lupianez, La Lupi, and Carmen RIvas, La Talegona. This evening, the profits of the show will go to the Isabel Genio Fundation, investigating the muscular dystrophy and some other rare diseases.According to Rafael Amargo declarations the show "Princesas del Flamenco" is a musical show without any dramatic art, it is a kind of smoothness, its aim is to show the talent and to offer an artistical alternative to both Andalusian dancers actively involved from his debut."They always gave their bodies and soul to the dance", explained Amargo.We need a strong female figure of the flamenco in Spain, said the dancer. There are a lot of male dancers accross the world.

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29/06/2010 Bailaores Seville Shows

María Pagés celebrates the 20. anniversary of her company at the Maestranza Theater of Sevilla

La bailaora María Pagés celebra los 20 años de su compañía en el Maestranza

For the Dance Series at the Maestranza Theater, the dancer María Pagés presents, this Tuesday and Wednesday, her show "Mirada", where the cinema and radio inspire her choregraphies; with the music of Ruben Lebaniegos, and the voice of the actor Juan Diego, as a guiding principle.Blinding dancer, admired by dance legends such as Mikhail Baryshnikov; her "exciting" creative curiosity leads her to dance truly and respecting the tradition, but she also is a revolutionary figure of flamenco, with amazing musics such as "Casta diva" by Bellini or a waltz by Shostakovich, but she always maintains her natural and her essence.

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