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This one, which opens this year's Flamenco Festival at Sadler's Wells, is no different in that respect. Where it stands apart is in its musical inspiration. Alma (which means soul) is a.
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This summer, embrace the sounds and the soul of flamenco in a festival that will be a treat for the eyes and the ears. Queen of flamenco, Sara Baras, presents a treasure trove for the senses. This is sumptuous movement that overflows with passion. Hot off the roaring success of ¡VIVA!, Manuel Liñán returns as part of Gala Flamenca alongside.
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras Alma Sadler's Wells Theatre
Leading the charge has been Sara Baras, now 52, who first came to notice not only for her penchant for performing in trousers but for challenging male prowess in traditionally men-only dances. Her signature Farruca strikes an almost martial stance, chest held high, hand on hip. Now garlanded with major awards over three decades Baras has.
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The advancing years (she is 52) have had no effect on either her artistry or energy, although Alma was less a marathon than a series of well-paced and well-dispersed sprints. Baras remains in majestic, dazzling form, giving several arresting solos, including the lyrical nostalgia of the Seguiriya and the explosive, triumphant joy of the Bulería.
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Alma promises to be an exhilarating evening with the "Flamenco queen" herself. A living legend in the flamenco world, Sara Baras has spent the past 30 years building an internationally lauded career as a dancer, director, and choreographer. Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance—as well as a slew of Spain.
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Sadler's Wells' annual Flamenco Festival kicked off in great style with Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras' Sombras, the veteran dancer's dramatic new show
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All in all, Sombras will be remembered not just for Sara Baras's sharp, zingy choreography and fashionable costumes, but also for its visually stunning production. And as all flamenco artists do, she paid homage to the past, returned to traditions in the style she is world-renowned for. May the shadow of 'Farruca' always stay with her.
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Friday July 04 2008, 1.00am, The Times. Sara Baras is one of the classiest, most contemporary flamencas, respecting the traditions of her chosen art form while smoothly and surely pushing it into.
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T he opening section of Sara Baras's new work is a wonder. After some atmospheric shapes thrown by her supporting dancers, men and women wearing suits, tilting microphones under conical.
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Challenging the traditionalists, Sara Baras synchronises music, lighting and design with dance to astonish and inspire. by Danica Katich. The Flamenco festival at Sadlers Wells in London is designed to show how the form can reinvent itself without losing those features that are its essence. "Sombras", (the Spanish for shadows) the show that.
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Percussive torrent. Sara Baras in Sombras at Sadler's Wells, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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Sara Baras is a flamenco star whose explosive stage presence will leave you breathless. I was lucky to see her last year at Sadler's Wells and I remember sur.
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She partners both instrumentalists and singers, pulling them out to the fore in true flamenco style. One minute it's a professional theatre production, the next it is a free-for-all in a nightclub, bar or square. It's all about percussion. Life's beating heart. Or its therapy, a release, an exorcism of emotion.
London, UK. 2nd July, 2019. Revolutionary dancer and flamenco legend Sara Baras returns to
Sara Baras is a natural choice to kick off the annual Flamenco festival at Sadler's Wells. She is not only a formidable dancer but also a consummate professional: not for her the grime of the.
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras Alma Sadler's Wells Theatre
Few performers, in any style of dance, can light up the stage with anything approaching the imperious charisma of Sara Baras.She works the stage as if she owns it - and every other stage in the world - and when Baras pushes her clenched fist into her chest to symbolically wrench out her heart and fling it into the audience, a gesture she repeats twice in the closing minutes of her extended.
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Sara Baras performing Alma at Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival (Photo: Sofia Wittert) The festival, a fiesta of dance, guitar and song now in its 18th year, has become an institution, showing.