The latest trends
in flamenco dancing
gather at Festival de Jerez 2008
Israel Galván, Rafaela Carrasco,
Rocío Molina and Belén Maya, Rafael Estévez
and Nani Paños, offer innovative proposals
Flamenco-world.com/S.C., February 2008
Festival
de Jerez 2008. Show schedule and ticket sales
There’s room in the showcase
for every trend in flamenco dancing. Festival de Jerez
2008 safeguards tradition, but doesn’t neglect the
more avant-garde proposals. ‘El final de este estado
de cosas’ by Israel
Galván, the pas de deux by Belén Maya
and Rocío Molina included in ‘Mujeres’,
‘Flamenco XXI: ópera café y puro’
by Rafael Estévez & Nani Paños, ‘El
alba del último día’ by Andrés
Marín are a some of the most groundbreaking shows
which will be seen at the Teatro Villamarta. The other
stage for innovation will be Sala Compañía,
where shows will be performed such as ‘ConCierto
gusto’ by Rafaela Carrasco and ‘Las 24. Cuando
uno quiere y el otro no’ by Marco Vargas & Chloé
Brûle-Dauphin.
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Israel Galván
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There are just a few days left until
the start of the twelfth edition of Festival de Jerez.
And spectators are combing the bill. There are those interested
in everything, there are those who stick to the traditional
- which there is a lot of and with really high quality
- and there are those looking to be surprised. The program
offers some interesting options for the latter. There
is great expectation at the Teatro Villamarta for the
arrival of Israel Galván who, following his tremendous
success last year with ‘Arena’, presents his
latest show: ‘El final de este estado de cosas’.
And it’s a work inspired by the texts of ‘The
Apocalypse’ in which besides cante, toque and clapping,
he sticks in ingredients such as contemporary vocal music,
tarantella and butoh dance.
The leitmotif of Rafael Estévez
and Nani Paños in ‘Flamenco XXI: ópera,
café y puro’ is to question the concept of
purity. According to the bailaores who head up this company,
Dospormedio & Cia., they try to show “how we
in the 21st century see that flamenco heritage which has
reached us in the form of music, audiovisuals, news and
anecdotes”. And although they always play with the
legacy of the maestros, they take licences such as doing
a polyphonic chorale with the voices of Antonio Mairena,
Manuel Vallejo, La Niña de los Peines, Tomás
Pavón and Pepe Marchena. On the other hand, Andrés
Marín carries out an abstract recreation of the
decline of the singing cafés era in ‘El alba
del último día’. Another center of
attention lies in ‘Mujeres’. And although
different baile styles coexist in this gala, it includes
a curious experiment: a pas de deux by Belén
Maya and Rocío
Molina on a primitive romance which is in nine time.
Some of the most innovative proposals
will be seen at Sala Compañía, in the setting
of series like ‘Con nombre propio’ and ‘De
la Frontera’. Standing out in the former is the
new show by Rafaela
Carrasco, ‘ConCierto gusto’, which the
Sevillian bailaora defines as “a music and baile
suite with complete freedom”. To be presented in
the border series is ‘Las 24. Cuando uno quiere
y el otro no’ by Marco
Vargas & Chloé Brûle-Dauphin, the
version for theater of a flamenco dancing and contemporary
dance show which comes from the street. Attending the
‘Solos en Compañía’ series is
Cádiz-born Marcos Flores. Although he reliably
upholds classical ways, he doesn’t avoid the avant-garde
in shared projects such as ‘Chanta la mui’
and ‘Dos en compañía’. Also
worth taking a look at is ‘Los Novísimos’,
where bailaores are presented who weren’t born in
the eighties, but rather in the nineties. The latest of
the latest.
Belén Maya and Rocío
Molina on 'Mujeres' (Photo Daniel Muñoz)
