Word: flamencos
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...word of caution is needed: Sargent's output was huge -- more than 800 portraits and innumerable sketches of people and places -- but its high points do stand out, and too many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to the Tate Gallery's portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, which, when exhibited in Paris before World War I, sent its public into raptures over ce grand diable de milord anglais. This show says little about its subject that was not put more economically by the 1979 Sargent exhibition at the Detroit Institute...
...father, a teacher, gave him while he grew up in Seattle, and a theory course in high school. At 14 he joined Koleda, a local, semiprofessional Balkan dance group, where he stomped out the folkloric rhythms. Three years later he went to Madrid and spent six months studying flamenco. After he returned to the U.S. his performing experience continued to be wildly varied: Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld. He never stayed anywhere very long. His own group began coming together five years ago. Like their leader, most Morris dancers are not built along strict classical lines. For one thing...
...commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad in an infant's diaper, and writing a 1,500-page treatise on the 99 names...
...returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit to Madrid's School of Dramatic Arts and Dance, she was persuaded to join some young pupils in the flamenco. Said one dance instructor: "Her rhythm was good, but she should take time to learn to use her arms...
...precision of classical ballet--a task which, even though accomplished, isn't worth the effort. Traditional, sappy, and restrained, the excerpt is uninspiring and seems to make the dancers less careful about their technique. Although they briefly spice up the atmosphere now and then by switching the dancers to Flamenco style, the general effect is nothing but cute...