Word: escudero
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...Vicente Escudero, 60-odd, all but forgotten as the past master of the Spanish gypsy dance, sat in his room in Madrid reading a letter from France. "You have been the eagle of the dance," it said, "and it is not indecorous for you to become the emperor of instruction." It ended with an invitation to head a dance academy at Paris' famed Salle Pleyel. Escudero accepted, but Old Dancer Escudero, a man who never bothered to count his money, had no cash to make the trip...
...befell last week that Vicente Escudero danced again-in a farewell to his home town of Valladolid. with all the proceeds to go into a purse to send him to Paris in style. The news drew Escudero aficionados from as far as Madrid, who drove over the snow-filled mountain pass to the onetime capital of Old Castile to watch him once more...
...pants and short jacket, his arms raised in the gypsy dancer's graceful but virile pose. For seven minutes, accompanied only by the rhythmic snapping of his fingernails, he stamped and whirled through the old dances, ending with the crescendo stamping of the flamenco Zapateado. At the finish. Escudero stood motionless, his face whitened and pinched by the effort, as spectators jumped to their feet, applauding wildly. From the gallery, a voice hoarse with emotion shouted: "Vicente, esto es!" (Vicente, that...
Times Change. It was Escudero's last tribute to the town where he was born and where he danced his first carefree steps on the cobblestone streets. His father got him a job in a printing shop, but the ten-year-old Vicente was more fascinated by the presses' rhythm than by their operation, soon took to skipping off to dance on the outskirts of town. Eventually he ran away. At 15 he got to Granada, lived with gypsies for four years and learned all the old dances in their pure forms. Then he took...
...Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement...