Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herr Glocken, and this is a ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar Werner) with deadly accuracy...
...place is Flushing Meadow, Long Island. There, in the Spanish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Manuela Vargas and her first-rate 16-member flamenco troupe hold forth four times a day. The raw, unbridled passion of their performance tops the fair's entertainment bill. Haughty as a peacock, La Vargas commands with a scowl that would intimidate a bandit. What she doesn't convey with her Goyaesque good looks, arching back and rippling feet, she says with her long serpentine arms and spidery hands...
...Seville-born Manuela first blossomed on the international scene when she won the prestigious Theater of Nations Festival Dance Award in Paris in 1963. Daughter of a cattle salesman, she is an amateur bullfighter and a "purebred" Andalusian gitana (gypsy), whose ancestors have made flamenco a way of life for more than three centuries. In today's Spain, many flamenco performers are not even gypsies-or dancers either...
...horror of its aficionados, flamenco has been crossbred with classical ballet and, most recently, rock 'n' roll. Appalled by this gaudy, twisty hybridization, devotees have founded flamencology centers in an effort to rescue the classic art from "philistinism...
Most successful of these authentic singing cafés is Madrid's La Zambra. There the defenders of the cause gather to watch diminutive Rosita Duran, the greatest female flamenco dancer since La Argentinita. La Zambra's success has prompted the opening of a smattering of similar tablaos. But there are still only some two dozen topflight dancers and singers in the country-and 14 million tourists a year to applaud twist flamenco...