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María
Serrano Company and the Cuban Ballet of Lázaro Noriega: "Rhythm"
Central Theatre
September 29th, 9PM
Alternate Rhythm
"From
Seville to Havana / with flamenco and el son" it's the first song that is sung
in the intermittent concert: take two good singers, combine them with two expert
cross-over guitarists and throw in two Japanese flamenco dancers in a production
- Cuban, but with a flamenco lean- with nonstop numbers beneath the music of Caribian
pianist (Ramón Valle) and guitarist (José Luis Montón) from Madrid. With alternative
"rhythm" they combine the choreography of Lázaro Noriega with the Cuban part and
the prolific Manolo Marín for the flamenco. It's difficult to meld alegrías with
danzon. Cold fusion.
Just
being a dancer that works in Germany- where she is a Flamenco star- mixed with
Cuban music already stands out.
Titles for clarification
are used: in "Sueño de Inma la cantaora" (Dream of Inma the singer) Inmaculada
Rivero dances a solo with Cuban bass; by his side, the singing of Juan Cantarote
is heard in brief, also with cajón; in "Iván, un bailarín con chancletas" (Ivan,
a dancer with sandals), Iván Eugenio Martínez makes his island sandals talk, with
flamenco boots in pasodoble, he does the machete dance and he, a black Cuban finishes
off dancing bulerías.
The
rhythm of jazz-rock with a galloping Latin piano enters into bulerías and from
here eight male dancers and three female dancers enter, María Serrano in front
and imparting; the invited dancer Antoñete blurs the farruca and when Paco Javier
Jimeno and Juan José Amador (niether them nor Enrique el Extremeño, at his side,
can save the show) start with tarantos, María overpowers him and playfully flirts,
but for too long; a guaguancó, a sweet bolero from the Cuban singer Elsa Valle,
a tumbao at full speed that mixes with a garrotín…
Luis Clemente
Translated
by Jessica Lorber
"Las Tres
Mil" (The three thousand)
Hotel
Triana
Friday, September 29th, Midnight
"Old
Patios"
A
prose of Khalil Gibran about the exile from Triana to the Three Thousand Housing
Projects, marginal neighborhood and hotbed of Flamenco, adorns a program that
opens with brave seguiriyas by El Boquerón. On guitar is Carlos Heredia, the driving
force next to Bobote and Eléctrico, the peculiar couple that sits in the center.
The young El Rente, comes out with fandangos in the style of Camaron and the soleá
of El Boquerón gives way to bulerías for the syncronized dance of his brother
Bobote and El Eléctrico. Kids section, little girls dance and sing tangos (they
participate in the collective CD "Las 3.000 Viviendas. Viejo patio" and in "Orobroy"
by Dorantes). In the shadow, Rafael Amador, the genius who created Pata Negra,
came out from his neighborhood to sing, "If you go, I will stay in Seville till
the end" "Si tú te vas yo me quedo en Sevilla hasta el final".
In
the second part Paco Fernández lays the foundation with his guitar and Juana la
del Revuelo does her full show, which incompases the straw basket, apron and old
fashioned undergarments all to tangos, fandangos and bulerías, with the support
of her Martín Revuelo. Without microphone, Juana sings to three farruquitos for
her dance to the children´s rhythmic bursts of energy. Fin de fiesta, out and
over .
Luis
Clemente
Translated
by Jessica Lorber
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