Les Follies Bergères – February, 11th. 2009
Cristina Hoyos is great flamenco dancer. I liked her Carmen very much and went to his farewell – or not farewell as nobody really knows.
She wants to tell us a story, Romancero Gitano by Federico Garcia Lorca. This is a violent story which reminds the Civil War. All the elements are there: a brutal Guardia Civil, anticlericalism, arbitrary arrest, mother love, boys’ violence… And the Lorca’s poetry.
I am not convinced by the result. Does flamenco can become a structured choreography? Can flamenco accept a structure with written dance steps? Is liberty not basically required? I have too much respect with Cristina Hoyos to answer. But I was not sensitive with this. Some moments are pure chef d’oeuvre, but the whole performance annoyed me seriously. I liked the irony of the dancing nun, I liked the apparition of Cristina herself at the very end. She is 62 year old and still attracts all glances as she is Cristina: her hands and fingers fascinated me indeed. But, please, Cristina, come back to liberty.
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