Baile cocktail at the 20th Nîmes
Flamenco Festival. Every trend in flamenco dancing, from
the most classical to the most avant-garde, has a place on the
bill of the French festival. Cádiz-born María José
Franco with ‘Bailando para mí’ and Sevillian
Javier
Barón with ‘Dos voces para un baile’
displayed their respective ways of personalizing tradition at
the present time. Israel Galván and Andrés Marín,
however, journeyed from today to the future in order to show more
undreamed-of roads for jondo dance. On stage at the Théâtre,
they have put on two shows as risky as ‘El final de este
estado de cosas. Redux’, in which Galván is inspired
by the biblical Apocalypse; and ‘El cielo de tu boca’,
in which Marín explores the abstract depth of the sound
of bells. In the next few days, there are two more baile shows
to see, which will show the power of young bailaoras. They are
‘Pastora’ by Pastora Galván on January 21st
and ‘Oro viejo’ by Rocío Molina on the 23rd,
closing the festival. And in between, cante.
