After Picasso: A New Spanish Genius Transforms An Artform: Isreal Galván's 'Arena' -

Flamenco As Never Imagined


Flamenco, even as it is popularised, has been in trouble, being either stuck or diluted: Either frozen in formal delivery or laced into spectacular but ultimately meaningless fusions. Galván - one of the most important artists in any dance form - blows all this away. Review from XI Festival de Jerez, Spain.

How many people are so remarkable that they reshape an art form?

In music, in painting, in dance, in film; in any sphere - there are really very few. But those few, those artists with an obvious 'genius' are worth our attention whatever our tastes or interests. Israel Galván is one of the few.

Galván's art is Flamenco, but not as ever conceived before. Flamenco, even as it is made popular and promoted, has been in trouble, being either stuck or diluted: A contradiction frozen in formal delivery or laced into spectacular but ultimately meaningless fusions.

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