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FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2008. EVA YERBABUENA,
‘SANTO Y SEÑA’
The metaphor of the soleá
Silvia Calado. Jerez, March 1st, 2008
‘Santo y seña’.
Eva Yerbabuena: baile, choreography,
artistic director. Paco Jarana: guitar, composing and
musical director. Juan Carlos Cardoso, Eduardo Guerrero,
Alejandro Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Zurano: dance
corps. Enrique Soto, Pepe de Pura, Jeromo Segura, José
Valencia: cante. Manuel de Luz: guitar. Raúl Domínguez:
percussion. Ignacio Vidaechea: sax-flute. Raúl
Perotti, Flori Ortiz: lighting. 12th Festival de Jerez.
Teatro Villamarta. Jerez (Cádiz, Spain), March
1st, 2008. 9 p.m.
Eva Yerbabuena (Photo
Daniel Muñoz)
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Eva
Yerbabuena stops at the center of the stage, like
a sculpture. And time stops for her. The four cantaores
come up to her one by one: Pepe de Pura, Enrique Soto,
Jeromo Segura, José Valencia, as if wishing to
snap her out of her enchantment with their soleares. But
she continues with her own tempo, slowing down the foreshortenings,
reducing movement to the minimum. And then she’s
surrounded by the four of them, the spell is broken and
the goddess charges por bulerías. That’s
what THE SOLEÁ is like now, the essence, the metaphor,
the no-time, the chill.
‘Santo y seña’ is
a self-portrait, a selection of the pieces which have
defined the bailaora, the choreographer, the artist, for
nearly a decade. And there she is, opening the seguiriya
from '5mujeres5'.
But now the cante soaks her from different flanks in the
theater. “What great beats come from my heart”,
sings Pepe de Pura. And she absorbs it and responds, sometimes
with the more subtle, others with the more complex of
the zapateados. The crowd, clapping and shouting, has
already surrendered at her feet.
Photo galleries, by Daniel Muñoz
Eva Yerbabuena, ‘Santo y seña’ (Jerez
2008)
Click
the image to view photo gallery
Now it’s time to display the facet
of designing movements for others to dance. Farruca with
four bailaores. Elegance, purging, fluency. And the music
by Paco
Jarana, as throughout the show, consistent with the
dancing. When the lights come back on, Yerbabuena reappears
wearing a bata de cola and shawl, posing on a rush-bottomed
chair. The mirabrás from ‘El huso de la memoria’
is all domination, flirting, woman, substance. Bulerías
with four bailaores. Eduardo Guerrero founds a fan club.
The third baile, the tientos-tangos ‘Quiero y no
puedo’, abounds in curves, in the little, in the
sensual. And, following an interlude beaten out by the
bailaores, the essence came, the metaphor, the no-time,
the chill. The soleá puts the icing on the cake
of a transitional show. We now await the conceptual Eva
Yerbabuena.
'Santo y seña' (Photo
Daniel Muñoz)
And tomorrow ...
• Manuela Carrasco,
‘Romalí’. Teatro Villamarta
(9 p.m.)
• Sonia Miranda. Palacio de Villavicencio
(7 p.m.)
• María Juncal, ‘La hora
de los milagros’ (midnight)
“An invocation of concord,
tolerance and equality, the staging of the
knowledge of Hindu art and its interrelationship
with Andalusian culture”. That’s
show bailaora Manuela
Carrasco expresses herself when explaining
the principles governing ‘Romalí’,
a show she presents on Sunday, March 2nd at
the Teatro Villamarta. The Sevillian bailaora,
winner of the 2007 National Dance Prize, will
offer the “dialogue between two cultures”
as a way of “knowing where I come from
in order to know where I’d like to take
the culture I represent towards”. ‘Romalí’,
which in gypsy language means ‘dance
of the gypsies’, has Indian dancer Maha
Akhtar as Carrasco’s ‘alter ego’
on stage. Both the bailaora - in charge of
the choreographies - and the dancer -responsible
for harmonizing khatak or Indian dance on
stage - will have the backing of José
Valencia, Pilar Carmona, Enrique el Extremeño,
Samara Amador and Antonio Zúñiga
on vocals, as well as the guitars of Joaquín
Amador, Ramón Amador and Román
Vicenti, and three Hindu musicians who are
guests to the show.
Another show at the festival
tomorrow is Sonia
Miranda’s cante at the Palacio de
Villavicencio, within the series ‘Los
conciertos de Palacio’, presenting her
album ‘Garabato’ accompanied by
guitarist José María Molero.
And at midnight, bailaora María Juncal
will present her show ‘La hora de los
milagros’ at the Sala Compañía.
Farruca, taranto, alegrías and two
musical numbers shape up the show which the
Canarian bailaora will stage. An original
idea by Juncal herself which entails, in the
choreographer’s words, “a song
to life”.
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