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Flamenco bailaora Mercedes Ruiz
conquers Madrid with ‘Juncá’ (Photo Daniel
Muñoz)
Flamenco bailaora
Mercedes
Ruiz conquers Madrid with ‘Juncá’.
On Gran Vía, the street where musicals thrive, just opposite
‘Jesucristo Superstar’ (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’),
a huge poster has stood for a week with a picture of the young
Jerez-born artist whirling a shawl. That’s how she appeared
in the Spanish capital from May 6th to 11th, 2008 with her latest
solo show. ‘Juncá’, which triumphed last
year at the Festival de Jerez, filled the Teatro Gran Vía
for six days. And it did so without using any other weapons
than baile’s own, as well as flamenco cante and toque.
Here, the bailaora displays dance as elegant as it is energetic,
full of pictures and vitality. As accomplices, she has three
cantaores as young and well-trained as she is: David
Palomar, Jesús Méndez and El Londro. Three
voices which contrast one another at the same time as they grow
together. And the music which, composed and directed by Jerez-born
guitarist Santiago
Lara, is the context and nearly the stage design. Javier
Ibáñez on second guitar, Perico Navarro on percussion,
Miguel Ángel López on piano – a basic piece
in the zambra with a bata de cola - and the additional baile
details by Vanesa Reyes and Antonio Ramírez enrich a
show which since its premiere at Bienal de Sevilla 2006 has
known how to grow and polish itself to the point of turning
into a show of a high level. Of what young flamencos are capable
of.
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