
Adela
Campallo, bailaora (November, 2009)
“When I couldn’t dance with my
body, I danced with my mind”
Amador Rojas, bailaor (April, 2011)
“I'd like flamenco to be at stadiums”
Andrés
Marín, bailaor (november, 2004)
“I'm never going to perform a kind
of music the same because I'm not a doll, I'm a person”
Andrés
Marín (May, 2001)
"I don't see any obstacles, what
I find is closed minds"
Ángel
Muñoz, bailaor (December, 2002)
"I like each student to leave happy for having
found himself"
Ángel
Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, dancers
“We display flamenco dancing, not flamenco
baile”
Antonia
Mercé ‘La Argentina’, bailaora (1931)
“You don’t dance with your feet,
but with your head and heart”
Antonio
Canales, bailaor (December, 2002)
"Failure is what makes life wonderful; I
don't ever want to forego that pleasure"
Antonio
el Pipa, bailaor (February, 2006)
“I love preserving the artform”
Antonio
el Pipa, dancer (March, 2002)
"These days there's a lack of charisma
out there, so flamenco 'bailaores' have to make up for it using
gimmicks"
Antonio
el Pipa (1999)
"My goal is to dance; my goal
is to sell out theaters and my goal is to bring down the house."
Flamenco
x 2. Interview: Belén Maya & Olga Pericet, bailaoras
Double search for emotion
Flamenco
x 2. Belén Maya & Israel Galván speak about Mario
Maya
Mario Maya’s intangible legacy
Belén
Maya, bailaora and choreographer (February, 2005)
“I want to know if I could be driven
to dance by happiness”
Blanca
del Rey, bailaora (September, 2006)
“You have to set aside your mind
to dance; it’s your soul that has to be expressed”
Carmen
Cortés, dancer and choreographer (May, 2003)
"Maturity leads you to behave in a more sensible
way and to feel more self-assured"
Chano
Lobato, Matilde Coral and Juan Habichuela (September, 2003)
While they're with us
Concha
Jareño, bailaora. Interview (May, 2009)
“I didn’t want to be the best
one in the dance corps all my life”
Concha
Vargas (2001)
"Flamenco dance is something
else... they should dance... dance and feel"
Cristina
Hoyos, bailaora and choreographer: (September, 2003)
"My dream is to make the flamenco movie that
I feel still hasn't been made"
Cristina
Hoyos (January, 2002)
"Talent is a scarce commodity in flamenco"
Cristina
Hoyos (1999)
"I try to dance as well as I
can, and I enjoy doing it..."
El
Güito (July, 2001)
"I started when I
was four. At that time a type of cinema was fashionable that you
might call 'folkloric' and that began to attract my attention"
El
Junco, flamenco bailaor (september, 2009)
“Dancing flamenco means living in an
intense emotional state”
Eva
Yerbabuena, bailaora (February, 2009)
“I want to get to know myself”
Eva
Yerbabuena, bailaora (July, 2006)
“A show doesn’t depend on a baile
por soleá”
Eva
Yerbabuena, bailaora. (September, 2004)
“A poem can be pure dance”
Eva
la Yerbabuena, bailaora and choreographer (December, 2003)
"Latin American audiences are hungry for
flamenco"
Eva
la Yerbabuena (June, 2002)
"I think that we artists are always in a
sort of coma"
Eva
Yerbabuena (2001)
"I don't consider the prize to be mine"
Eva
la Yerbabuena (September, 2000)
"I have always said that whatever
you do, one has to do what they feel in the moment. I am flamenca
and whatever I do, I can't forget who I am."
Flamenco
x 3. Farru, José Maya & Barullo, bailaores. Interview
“It isn’t about being a baile
percussionist, but knowing how to understand the password”
Farruca,
bailaora (October, 2005)
“I think people understand what's happening
in my life in my baile”
Farruquito,
bailaor (November, 2003)
"I know this is just the beginning"
Farruquito,
dancer (January, 2003)
"I'm more interested in where I came from
than where I'm going"
Fuensanta
la Moneta, bailaora (June, 2006)
“Every detail is important in baile
flamenco, right down to the last eyelash”
Hiniesta
Cortés, bailaora (October, 2002)
"I have to take baile flamenco forward, to
take the plunge, even if it means making mistakes"
Isabel
Bayón, bailaora (April, 2008)
“The most subtle art is the most complicated
to do”
Isabel
Bayón (February, 2001)
"To innovate doing things that are
different is easy"
Israel Galván, bailaor (May, 2011)
"I devote more attention to the spiritual than the physical"
Israel
Galván, bailaor (October, 2006)
“If I didn’t keep on telling
a truth of mine, I couldn’t dance anymore”
Israel
Galván and Alfredo Lagos, bailaor and guitarist (October,
2005)
“We're not pressured to make a good
impression on the audience or be a hit”
Israel
Galván, dancer (March, 2002)
"I like people to see me as a piece of rubbish
on stage"
Javier
Barón, dancer (December, 2006)
“Flamenco’s evolution has to
be dealt with really tactfully”
Javier
Latorre: Dancer and choreographer (July, 2002)
"The language of art is a kind of Esperanto
among artists. We understand each other through ideas"
Javier
Latorre, bailaor and choreographer (october, 2004)
“Flamenco's successful no matter what
you doand that makes creators drop anchor”
Javier
Latorre (1999)
"What and how things are created
is important, as well as the conviction of the creator.."
Joaquín
Cortés, bailaor. Interview
“I think flamenco, like dance in general,
is going through a rough patch, and there's a lack of quality around”
Joaquín
Cortés (May, 2001)
"In classical ballet they still
dance with a nude torso. Why not in flamenco?"
Joaquín
Cortés (November, 1998)
"I am anti-critic, one shouldn't
dance for the critics but for the people and for oneself."
Joaquín
Grilo, bailaor and choreographer (September, 2003)
"We bailaores should start taking a little
more interest in cante"
Joaquín
Grilo (2001)
"I always want to show the audience the things
I discover when I'm alone in my studio"
Joaquín
Grilo (April, 2000)
"The technique must be depured
with the rehearsal, and there's where the inspiration arrives."
José
Serrano and Luis Ortega, bailaores (April, 2006)
“We’re aware of how lucky we
are in our careers as bailaores”
Juan
de Juan (February, 2001)
"Antonio
has been, and is, maestro, father, and brother..."
Juan
de Juan, bailaor (October, 2008)
“I seek myself in my solitude”
Luisa
Triana (June, 2001)
"Flamenco has to make you feel, not
just surprise you"
Manolete,
dancer (October, 2002)
"The fact that young guys still see me as
modern makes me feel I have the right to do new stuff"
Manolo
Marín, dancer, choreographer and teacher (May, 2002)
"Some of the bigger names -and the smaller
ones- think that they've invented what they're doing, and that nothing
existed before they came along"
FLAMENCO
X 2. Manuel Liñán & Marcos Flores, bailaores (September,
2005)
“If you really feel it, why limit art?”
Flamenco
x 2. Chloé Brûle-Dauphin & Marco Vargas, (August,
2007)
“I like playing to the beat the same
as freely. I’ve studied it all”
Manuela
Carrasco, dancer (July, 2002)
"You're your own best critic"
Manuela
Carrasco (2001)
"They respect flamenco
more in Japan than right here"
María
del Mar Moreno, bailaora (April, 2004)
"Flamenco dance is evolving in terms
of form, but not in terms of the foundations"
María
del Mar Moreno, dancer (March, 2002)
"Offstage I don't know how to act
like an artist"
María
José Franco, bailaora (August, 2006)
"Todos los bailaores vamos a optar por
ser aún más flamencos"
María Pagés, bailaora and choreographer (January, 2012)
“Flamenco is curved, like life”
María
Pagés, bailaora and choreographer (April, 2007)
“Seville is full of contrasts, just
like life, just like flamenco”
María
Pagés, bailaora and choreographer, (June, 2004)
"Flamenco has to command the highest
level of recognition; it has nothing to prove anymore"
María
Pagés, bailaora and choreographer (August, 2003)
"I don't like to feel under pressure to bring
out new productions"
María
Pagés, bailaora (April, 2002)
"Flamenco is one of the clear examples that
uniting cultures, races or religions we can create common ground,
a shared community"
Mario
Maya, director of the Center for Flamenco Performance Studies (April,
2002)
"Flamenco has a special musical beauty and
taste that makes it much more than just a series of incoherent steps"
Matilde
Coral, flamenco bailaora and maestra (July, 2006)
“I’m going to have to close my
school”
Matilde
Coral (2001)
"I don't like cheapness"
Mercedes
Ruiz, bailaora (May, 2006)
“Eva Yerbabuena taught me you have
to love the artform above all else”
Mercedes Ruiz, bailaora (April, 2011)
“I want to leave myself in order to find who I want to be”
Merche
Esmeralda, bailaora (March, 2006)
“People who dance old-style have merit,
but those who dance old-fashioned don’t, since they’re
out-dated”
Flamenco
x 2. Nani Paños & Rafael Estévez, bailaores (May,
2008)
“Purity in flamenco is misunderstood”
Olga
Pericet, bailaora (March, 2011)
“Now what’s most contemporary
lies in what’s most flamenco”
Paco
Mora, bailaor and choreographer (August, 2005)
“Málaga is capable of
singing, dancing and playing any flamenco style”
Pastora
Galván, bailaora (April, 2006)
“I don't want people to pigeonhole
me along with my brother Israel, nor as a Yerbabuena”
Historic
interview with Pastora Imperio, bailaora
“I’d like to be always roving,
following my gypsy caravan”
Rafael
Amargo, bailaor (May, 2004)
"Flamenco has plenty of talent and lacks
perseverance"
Rafael
Campallo (2001)
"The hard thing is working in
a peña, anyone can bring a theater audience to its feet"
Rafael
Ortega, bailaor (1933)
“My triumph has been two things: my
baile and Encarna la Argentinita”
Rafaela
Carrasco, bailaora. Interview (June, 2004)
“The experience don't make your dancing
change, but make you yourself change inside, and that has to be
noticed on the outside”
Rocío
Molina, bailaora (January, 2006)
“I'm someone very convinced of what
I do”
Rosario
Toledo, bailaora (August, 2008)
“The artform is always evolving so
long as it's alive inside you”
Rubén
Olmo, dancer and flamenco bailaor (December, 2010)
“We’ll see bailaores doing ‘Olé
de la Curra’ again, like in the olden days”
Salvador
Távora (September, 2001)
"I've always been more concerned with
why people sang than how they sang"
Sara
Baras, bailaora (March, 2010)
“Sara Baras has become a trademark
and that’s something important for flamenco”
Sara
Baras, bailaora (March, 2006)
“I want to flee from all that is material
and get directly down to the feelings”
Sara
Baras, bailaora (September, 2004)
“Respect for the greats can't be forgotten,
but nor that they've given us the freedom to move ahead”
Sara
Baras (January, 2001)
"There must be risk in art, also in
your personal life, if not, you don't get anywhere".
Shoji
Kojima, dancer (June, 2003)
"Flamenco is a combination of all races"
Toni
el Pelao & Uchi, bailaores (March, 2003)
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