(noticia) Flamenco, Haasse and Picasso

By Marijke van der Meer
08-11-2006


Today is the last day of the first ever Netherlands Flamenco Biennale. The big sensation at the festival is an act called La Edad de Oro (The golden age) starring Flamenco rebel Israel Galvan. The 33-year-old dancer first acquired the reputation of a rebel in 1998 at the Flamenco Biennale in Seville. He performed an unrecognizable form of flamenco danced to heavy metal and electronic noise, and full of shocks and silence.

Some members of the audience walked out, others hailed him as the Nijinsky of flamenco. The very first flamenco competition was organized in Granada in 1922 by the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and composer Manuel de Falla, because they wanted to save this Andalusian gypsy art form from extinction.

Flamenco is now undergoing a tremendous blossoming far beyond the borders of Spain, and with Israel Galvan giving master classes in Utrecht and Amsterdam this weekend, it is probably safe to say that flamenco is far from dying out.
(leer +) [vía radionetherlands]

tags: flamenco, baile, cante, flamenca