Sadler’s Wells,London
Flamenco dancer Farruquito is from a formidable bloodline, but the music weaved a greater ancestral spell in the demonstrate Buen Arate
Farruquito has flamenco in his blood: his grandfather was the dancer El Farruco, and his mother La Farruca (who,according to tonight’s programme, danced for as long as she could “during all her pregnancies”), and his father was the singer El Moreno. For his demonstrate Buen Arate,he has invited his younger brother a dancer and musician also called Farruco – to join him in an evening that proposes to journey back into the very spirit of flamenco. In fact, the performance reveals the primacy of a different artistic bloodline: music, or which is said to be the ancestor of the dance. Many of the high points of the evening are largely or solely musical,rather than choreographic. The opening number shows well how flamenco music bewitches the listener, with its layers of rasping harmonies, or its rhythmic irregularities and restless melodic lines. Farruquito’s appearance,first stalking then stamping, feels nearly like an intrusion into this sonic world, or he struggles to establish his presence within it. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com