FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2009. JAVIER BARÓN,
‘DOS VOCES PARA UN BAILE’
The prize is dancing
Silvia Calado. Jerez, March 4th, 2009
‘Dos voces para un baile’.
Javier Barón: baile, choreography,
artistic director. José Valencia, Miguel Ortega:
cante. Javier Patino, Ricardo Rivera: guitars. El Choro,
Juan Diego: baile, clapping. David Montero: stage director.
Faustino Núñez: musical director. 13th
Festival de Jerez. Teatro Villamarta. Jerez (Cádiz,
Spain), March 4th, 2009. 9 p.m.
Javier Barón
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“The tower of Santiago is ringing
with glory”. And it could have been true that
it happened while Javier
Barón was reaching ecstasy on the edge of
the bulería. The Sevillian bailaor, full of motivation
after being distinguished with the 2008 National Dance
Prize, enjoyed and made others enjoy flamenco dancing
without any type of trickery. And the thing is that
this ‘Dos voces para un baile’ should be
the paradigm of the show without a storyline for soloists.
Both because of the form and the substance, two features
which are seldom perfectly balanced.
The form, which is signed by David
Montero, manages to string together piece after piece
without any cracks in between, by means of the lighting
and an apt design of entrances, exits and use of the
different planes of the stage. The substance is the
just chain between the musical design, its performance
by the two cantaores and the two guitarists …
and the BAILE. Thus accompanied and inspired, the bailaor
from Alcalá de Guadaíra makes his monumental
dance gush forth with an appearance of naturalness behind
which is concealed personality, history, restlessness,
challenge, complexity, simplicity, difficulty, discipline,
dreams, devotion… And everything that an artist’s
career like his may entail, wrought by means of humility
and perseverance.
Going down in the history of this festival
are the wonders he worked on a thousand and one types
of rhythms, the invisible leaps from seguiriyas to tangos,
the sincere communication between the front and back,
the solo por guajiras by Ricardo Rivera, ‘Meridiana’
by Javier Patino, the spectacular metamorphic cantes
by Miguel
Ortega and José
Valencia, the elegance of the presentation, the
dynamics of the structure, the reflections in off by
an artist who looks at his own past in order to keep
on moving forward … and he synthesizes it in that
total soleá which put the finishing touch on
a show that, with or without prizes, situates flamenco
dancing at the height of the dignity and artistic value
which it deserves.
Antonia
Jiménez •
Tamara Tañé
Palacio de Villavicencio,
7 p.m.
The Palacio
de Villavicencio once again dedicated another
double day of flamenco to women. The toque
was provided by Cádiz-born Antonia
Jiménez, with sweet manners, the
looseness of someone with experience in
the back and still a long road ahead of
her. The farruca, tanguillos with a guajira
air and bulerías were some of the
pieces which she performed and, without
managing to reach an understanding with
the percussion, she won an unusual ovation
to the beat. The cante came from a few more
streets over. Jerez-born Tamara Tañé,
who has been a member of the troupe of ‘Mujeres’
over the last season, focused on the styles
of the land, still working to control her
privileged instrument.
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