Antonio Gades, a tribute. Special feature

To the legendary Gades,

Long live dance!!! You are the light!!!

You left us today, my friend, role model, companion. And off you go, toward the sacred, indescribable and mysterious night. The world is a long way off already, buried in a deep grave; its spaces have become desolate and lonely. An intense feeling of melancholy vibrates along my heartstrings. I'd like to be swallowed down by the dew, fusing together with ash. The profound memories, the yearning of youth, the childhood dreams, the fleeting moments of joy and dashed hopes of a long life home in, clothed in grey, like en evening mist after sunset. The light - the light that you are - has planted its joyful flags in another place. Perhaps you should never return to we, your children, impatiently waiting for you with a naïve faith?

To my friend Antonio Gades,

You will always be a part of me.

Antonio Canales

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