Theatre & Dance
Carlos Saura Pays Tribute to Flamenco With "Flamenco Hoy"
Theatre & Dance 20/04/2010
Spanish film-director Carlos Saura presented "Flamenco Hoy" (Flamenco Today) on April 15 in Barcelona's National Theatre, a show that pays tribute to Flamenco and its biggest names, such as dancer and choreographer Antonio Gades and singers Manolo Caracol and Antonio Mairena.
"Flamenco Hoy", which premiered between August 19 and 23, 2009, in Madrid's Festival de la Villa, is a Flamenco-based spectacle that has recruited the 21st century's most promising Flamenco artists and aims to find harmony between voice, music and dance. A veritable back-and-forth between instruments, vocal echoes and the silhouettes of the dance corps, it blends both classic and nouvelle styles. Its set design lends centre stage to music and dance, discipline and that spark, blazing and stirring, which forms the basis of "Flamenco Hoy".
Dancers Pastora Galván, Laura Rozalén, Rafael Estévez and Nani Paños, who also choreographed the dance routines, figure among the 18 young dancers that take to the stage to perform a wide range of Flamenco styles, such as Nanas, Sevillanas, Tangos de Triana, Saetas, Fandangos, Alegrías, Bulerías and Rumbas. Singers David Palomar and Jesús Méndez lend vocal backing and are accompanied by Cadiz-born pianist Chano Domínguez, also the musical director, guitarist Antonio Rey and percussionist Israel Suárez "Piraña".
Saura, a huge Flamenco lover, is the director and author of this show, in which "the artists are what counts". Thus he has attempted to present the art of a new generation of Flamenco dancers, singers and musicians.
"Flamenco Hoy" is scheduled to tour Spain and the international stage circuit when it finishes its Barcelona run on May 2.
Written by Marga Villanova
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