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FLAMENCO EN ESCENA
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Text: Estela Zatania “Majaretas” The closing day of Flamenco en Escena began with a conference by Antonio Murciano, “Del Cuarto de los Cabales al Gran Teatro del Mundo”, an interesting rundown of the evolution of flamenco from an intimate elitist genre, to the current panorama of large slick companies and globalization. A soccer match which had audience, artists and technicians glued to television sets all over town, delayed the first show of the night, and when “Majaretas” of the Albadulake company finally got underway, once again strong winds threatened to trigger a cancellation. But despite all the obstacles, dancer Angeles, dressed like a flamenco doll atop a giant TV, managed to dance soleá with a bata de cola and fan. She was followed by a series of acrobats and jugglers who offered their Andalusian circus show, much to the audience’s delight. This experienced group has travelled all over the world with their novel show that is scheduled to soon travel to Italy, China, Japan and Colombia before carrying out a lengthy tour of Spain. Shortly afterwards, a few blocks up in the old town, Málaga dancer José Losada Santiago, known as “Carrete”, offered his show. The veteran artist, whose fame has grown exponentially ever since he presented his work “No Sé la Edá que Tengo” at the Málaga biennale, came with his group composed of singer Raúl Franco, guitarist Joaquín Losada “Carretillo”, singer Soraya, and the rhythm of Antonio “el Yaya”. Underlining the open character of Flamenco en Escena, the evening and the festival came to close with Los Rumbers, a pair of disk jockeys from Seville, Pepe Lamotta and Dr. Guasa. A mixture of black music with jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop with flamenco elements, all glued together with digital magic, was the formula for this surprising fusion show. Throughout the entire festival, as a parallel activity, painter Téllez de Menese spent hours, days and nights drawing the Tree of Flamenco Forms on a white wall in the San Pedro plaza, one of the festival’s venues. Thanks to Flamenco en Escena we were able to see some of the most experimental works inspired in flamenco, and programmers and flamenco fans got to know the extraordinary dimension of a landscape that only continues to grow exponentially. clic for enlarge photo
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