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Sunday,
May 30th, 2000.
Joaquín Grilo: Teatro Villamarta.
GRILO
OPENS AND AMAZES
Joaquín
Grilo open with a premiere of a his new company with "Jácara",
a show interwoven with simple scenic elements which opened the festival successfullly.
A
guitar in the background. A "farruca" is tuned. It is sung by Carmen,
Joaquín"s sister, standing up. The guide for him, seated, is the leading
guitar. He shows good control and an extensive set of rhythmic details. This was
the most introspective moment of the show with which the company of Joaquín
Grilo made their début, thus opening at the Teatro Villamarta the IV Festival
de Jerez "por seguiriyas".
In
between each of the rhythmical variations which the "farruca" allows
for, the crowd shouts "¡fenómeno! (fantastic!)". An hour had
gone by of the show. At the end of it, back to the chair: the "farruca"
left clear the desire of simplicity wanted by Grilo for his show. Later would
come the finale "por bulerías": the guys, the girls, then Rosario,
and when we come to Grilo"s turn, swirls and revolutions. He vibrates, stops
still... makes a wink to the crowd with his whole body.
In
the initial moments "por seguiriyas", Grilo presented the dance of desperation.
He appeared seated in a chair facing Rosario Toledo, the young girl from Cádiz
who acted as leading bailaora (flamenco dancer): how she swirled in front of him
while Grilo raised his enormous arms, slowly.
Rosario
performed a series of tangos in her modern style, creating angles and in a somewhat
rigid fashion. After her, the five bailaoras, with a sinuous movement of the arms
in the "fandangos" and a little lack of spiciness in the "alegrías".
Following came the three bailaores (among them, splendid, Isaac de los Reyes),
who shared a "soleá por bulerías" with Grilo, who left
the quality marks by creating scintillating details in the movements of the wrist,
of the neck… A spotlight in the background created shadows among the crowd as
a brief, luminous special effect in a show presided by simplicity with easy-flowing
music created by Alfredo Lagos, whose guitar playing was accompanied by another
two more discrete ones, and at the cante (flamenco singing), along with Carmen
Grilo, the remarkable young Leo Triviño and the devoted and aching Londro.
Above all, a Joaquín Grilo who allowed the spectator to complete his insinuating
movements. Amazing. The crowd that filled the theatre had no choice but to let
him go when seeing him walk away in the company of his leading guitar player.
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