Eclecto-flamenco

POSTMODERN INTERPRETATION: Pointing out the kind of things flamenco can do without the need to develop any of them.

Compañía Rafaela Carrasco at the Majestic
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL
February 13, 2007 4:37:02 PM
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The house lights go down and the audience at the Cutler Majestic feels the opening space of the stage rather than seeing it. In this darkness you hear rapid foot taps and the theater fills with suspenseful breathing. The shape of a body emerges in a spill of light, shoulders thrusting up and down in alternation, a ribcage weaving from side to side, white arms angling out. You hear finger clicks, stamps, no music. Finally you can make out a woman, in a ruffled tunic over trousers, with a shoulder-baring top, but the light pouring directly down prevents you from seeing her face as she hurls out gestures and footwork in uneven spurts.

(leer +) [vía thephoenix]

tags: flamenco, baile, Rafaela Carrasco, flamenca, A Look at Flamenco