Pastora's curves

	Pastora Galván (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

Andrés Marín was accompanied on the agenda by two Sevillian bailaoras, Pastora Galván and Lalo Tejada, who displayed their respective baile shows in a small-scale format at the festival's two alternative stages. Pastora Galván concluded the ‘Los Novísimos’ Series, which has taken to the Teatro de Guadalcacín young bailaores who have been given if not their first, one of their first chances to fend for themselves solo, beyond the protection of a company. The Sevillian bailaora had against her being surrounded by the same accompanists that would second Andrés Marín a couple of hours later at the main theater. With the cartridges in the chamber, and consequently, little inspiration in the star, it was hard to lift up a performance which, following the alboreá and the taranto, only left the stage outwards in the last stretches of the final alegrías - with a red bata de cola. Even so, Pastora Galván, the daughter and sister of bailaores, made an effort to display her esthetic, female arts, moving hips, turning hands, sketching guts, freezing pictures. ‘Estampa flamenca’. With that same word Lalo Tejada entitled her midnight show at Sala La Compañía. The Sevillian bailaora, who over the last few years has played the main roles in the shows by playwright Salvador Távora, came to exhibit “touches, flamenco pictures”. Accompanied by bailaor El Junco and “old-fashioned cante from Jerez and Utrera”, she wanted to vindicate bailes with a bata and fan, sevillanas and the caña. The ‘Solos en compañía’ Series will be closed on Thursday, March 9th by Israel Galván, winner of the 2005 National Dance Prize. By the way, when this milestone in the history of flamenco dancing occurred, already being printed was the latest book by José Luis Navarro and Eulalia Pablo, ‘El baile flamenco. Una aproximación histórica’ (‘Flamenco Dancing. A Historical Approximation’), presented at the round-table at Bodega de San Ginés at noon on this eleventh day, together with the volume ‘Tradición y vanguardia’ (‘Tradition and the Avant-garde’), focused on recent flamenco dancing. Revealing books made with the premise of scientific precision, so necessary for this artform with more than enough mythology and poetics.