(noticia) London Flamenco Festival Offers Fewer Silk Frills, More Drama

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By Ruth Leon

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- With a stamp of a heel, a flash of an eye and a click of the fingers, ``Flamenco Festival London,'' two weeks of dance, song, and gypsy music from southern Spain has opened at Sadler's Wells.

We have seen little Spanish dance in London in the past few years, yet everything about it has changed except the intensity and the tension that give it life.

The first night's curtain-raiser was ``Sabores,'' Sara Baras's recent new multipart work for her company, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras. ``Sabores,'' or Flavors, gives a taste of each kind of Spanish dance from bolero to tango to martinete and redefines each with her trademark clear lines.

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