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Dancer
Javier Barón brings his personal tribute to Vicente Escudero to Paris
Carmen Linares
will also appear in the Teatro Hispano's Festival Don Quijote
Flamenco-world.com
The Teatro Hispano's Festival Don Quijote is the
chosen showcase for Seville dancer Javier Barón to debut in the French
capital with his work '¡Baile de hierro, baile de bronce!' [dance of steel,
dance of bronze]. The show which is intended to honor the genius of flamenco dancer
Vicente Escudero, will run from the 23rd to the 26th of January, 2002 in Paris'
Teatro Chaillot. The festival, organized by the Asociación Cultural Zorongo,
will also include the participation of Carmen Linares in flamenco, as well as
groups from other Spanish artistic genres as well as from Venezuela, Colombia,
Ecuador, Bolivia and Perú.
Backed up by the critical success obtained at Madrid's
Festival de Otoño and Valladolid's Teatro Calderón, Javier Barón
presents '¡Baile de hierro, baile de bronce!' in Paris. The four scheduled
performances which will take place between the 23rd and the 26th of January in
the Teatro Chaillot are part of the extensive schedule of the Teatro Hispano's
Festival Don Quijote which, supported over the last decade by the Asociación
Cultural Zorongo, has managed to extend a bridge for Hispanic culture between
France, Spain and Latin America.
Javier Barón
In this context, where theatrical innovations, dance and
music come together, the choreographer and dancer (Alcalá de Guadaira [Sevilla],
1963) injects the message of his most recent work: a major tribute from the world
of dance to the figure of the multitalented artist Vicente Escudero, master of
flamenco creation and source of inspiration for the world of jondo. Javier Barón
has especially salvaged his memory in his representation of Escudero's art por
seguiriyas. But actually, the greatest tribute of Barón - creator of productions
such as 'Callejón de los trapos', 'Azul añil' and 'Pájaro
negro' - is the philosophy he projects of his own work, just like the maestro
from Valladolid, in a definite show of support for renovation and evolution of
the dance.
Flamenco cante
The program of this festival which was founded by
Luis Jiménez, rounds out the flamenco representation with Carmen Linares,
the singer from Jaén who was recently awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de
Música and who shares the bill with Javier Barón.
But flamenco will only be one of the genres represented
at the festival. On Spain's behalf there will be companies like La Zaranda or
Teatro Zascandil among many, while from Latin America, "lending a hand to
Don Quijote" groups such as Venezuela's Teatro Río Caribe, Afro-Colombian
Chapeta Criolla, or the Bolivian group Zigzag.
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