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With help from Taiwanese members, the "Nutcracker" will feature an authentic Chinese Ribbon. The ballet company will also perform Flamenco dancing, instead of the more stereo-typical Spanish dances featured in traditional performances...
Ramirez Magana is also the outgoing president and one of the founders of Harvard Organization of Latin America (HOLA). Claudia Llaredo'95 and Andrea M. Flamenco '96 were elected co-presidents for next year at HOLA's Wednesday night meeting...
Essence McGill also extended the choreographical refinement of the production with drunken flamenco dancing, a matador pantomime, and Russian dancing which featured cartwheels and somersaults. Especially fun was the Finale of Act II, in which the entire cast pranced around a colorful maypole...
...director embellishes the wedding and decapitation scenes with radically inappropriate music and choreography. Gomez's severed head screams fake. The technical crew fails to distinguish between night and day, keeping the action in a perpetual half-light that isn't eerie so much as confusing. A bizarre, frumpy flamenco routine lends little authenticity to the festivities. With all the resources available to a mainstage production, such blatantly amateurish lapses should be eliminated...
...hypnotic Chinese pole act, for which the circus is justly renowned, 16 acrobats in swirled leotards scramble up, down and around a set of four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish flamenco. Dressed in flaming scarlet leotards and mean-looking red high-heeled boots, and yielding gaucho's hunting weapons called boleadoras (a rope with a wooden ball fastened on the end), these women tap and swing themselves into a frenzy that resembles a highspeed cuisinart. Their grip on their whirling weaponry...