(noticia) Flame of flamenco in search of ignition

Deborah Jones

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Eva Yerbabuena Ballet Flamenco. Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, January 23.
EVA Yerbabuena comes trailing clouds of superlatives. She is regarded as one of the leading exponents of flamenco and a deeply serious artist.

She founded her company nine years ago, when she was in her mid-20s, and has toured extensively to much acclaim.

In New York in 2002, for instance, she was the hit of a heavyweight flamenco festival: "The spectators jumped to their feet, screaming, and they stayed and stayed, letting other people get the taxicabs," reported The New Yorker's Joan Acocella, who felt that Yerbabuena, in her solea, "seemed to touch on every facet of human experience".

(leer +) [vía the australian news]

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