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FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2009. ISABEL BAYÓN, ‘TÓRTOLA VALENCIA’
The truth of the truth
Silvia Calado. Jerez, March 6th, 2009
‘Tórtola Valencia’. Isabel Bayón: baile, choreography. Matilde Coral: special baile collaboration. Miguel Poveda: special cante collaboration. Juanfra Juárez: actor. Miguel Ortega. Jesús Torres, Paco Arriaga: guitars, musical composition. José Carrasco: percussion. Rafa el Viola: viola. Pepa Gamboa: director. Antonio Álamo: dramatic art. 13th Festival de Jerez. Teatro Villamarta. Jerez (Cádiz, Spain), March 6th, 2009. 9 p.m.
Isabel Bayón
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“Truth always prevails in the end”. This is one of the many sentences which could be read in Spanish in the signs of the silent short films in ‘Tórtola Valencia’. And last night, it stood out as the key message. In the end, the truth of baile prevailed, the truth of life, the truth of Matilde Coral and the truth of Isabel Bayón.
Although some of us had already lived the moment in the premiere at Bienal de Sevilla 2008, we felt the magic once again. Sobbing our hearts out. Me, my companion, maestros, neophytes, Isabel Bayón and even the building superintendent. The silent arm movement of the maestra and the pupil face to face has already gone down in the history of this artform.
Matilde Coral & Miguel Poveda (Photo Daniel Muñoz) |
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The scene intended to represent the old age of the exotic dancer from the twenties who inspired the show, but the situation went beyond the script once more. Miguel Poveda again understood how exceptional a picture was which came to life with him inside. And he ripped his chest between Alcalá and Utrera, letting himself be surrounded by the majesty of their majesty. Which wasn’t enough with the arms, or even with the hands, and she asked the butler in the film for his embroidered wings in order to fly. She flew… and perhaps for the last time.
And to find out about the rest of the show, excuse us for sending you to the review of the premiere…
Concha Jareño, ‘Algo’
Sala Compañía, 7 p.m.
The Compañía comes through once again. It doesn’t happen often, but at least once per edition this venue discovers a really valuable show. And that has just been the case of ‘Algo’ by Concha Jareño. The Madrilenian bailaora recognizes that this show was a way of exorcizing her fear of going further. And she comes out of the challenge individualized, grown-up and ready to keep on evolving. The show gathers several pieces which make sense both in themselves and juxtaposed. She has the gift of exquisiteness both in her narrative, developed from internal cycles, and in the performance … and even in that style so much her own which compresses the flamenco with the contemporary, technical precision with old-time femininity.
Concha Jareño
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Although the whole of the show is splendid, the milonga with a bata de cola and fan stands out in its own right. Even though percussion as subtle as the rest of the elements is missing, that short stint is chilling. And in particular, the dialogue between the bailaora, violinist Konstantin Chakarov and the coiled cante of Gema Caballero. Pure emotion. Hardly letting up, she went from the exuberance of fandango-style times - including the Camarón-style canastera - to the purging of the martinete, leading up to the final part entitling the whole and in which she translates a guitar suite by Juan Antonio Suárez ‘Cano’ into superb dance. Nuances, details, panoramas, emotions, journeys, landscapes, spaces, silences, shivering. Concha Jareño also dances and thinks.
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Javier Patino, ‘Media vida’
Bodega Los Apóstoles, midnight
Javier Patino
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Jerez de la Frontera continues to feed today’s guitar scene and the soundtrack of this 13th Festival de Jerez. Juan Diego played at the Villamarta. Moraíto and Gerardo Núñez played at Los Apóstoles. And now Javier Patino takes over also at the historic wine venue. The guitarist presented his first solo album ‘Media vida’ live, just two days after devoting himself to Javier Barón’s baile at the city’s main venue. Percussionist Tino di Geraldo (the album’s producer), contrabass player Pablo Martín and violinist Alexis Lefèvre backed the Jerez-born musician’s solo show.
CD: Javier Patino. Media vida
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tomorrow …
· David Pérez. Sala Compañía, 7 p.m.
· Rocío Molina, ‘Oro viejo’. Teatro Villamarta, 9 p.m.
· José Luis Rodríguez, ‘De mis manos’. Bodega Los Apóstoles, midnight
Bodega San Ginés was jam-packed. Hundreds of students from halfway around the world attended to pick up their diploma from the first week’s courses, handed out on stage by their own maestros: Merche Esmeralda, Andrés Marín, Rocío Molina, Javier Latorre, Alicia Márquez… Photos, chats and a glass of sherry. Shortly before, town radio station Onda Jerez made the official presentations of Canalflamencotv.com which starts on the Internet, to soon make the leap to TDT. For that moment, the three artists starring tomorrow explained their shows. Rocío Molina takes her ‘Oro viejo’ to the Teatro Villamarta, a reflection on time from the perspective of old age. Novice bailaor David Pérez premieres solo in the evening at the Compañía. And Huelva-born José Luis Rodríguez plots “a journey through all my stages as a guitarist” in the concert ‘De mis manos’ at Los Apóstoles on the verge of the following day.
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