Word: zapateado
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Danzon, a dance group from Boston University, thrilled the audience with fleet-footed Zapateado dance from Veracruz and an Aztec dance featuring dramatic peacock-feather headdresses that reached several feet into...
...working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done a zapateado before the avid lenses of a team from Paris Match, he gives Dominguin some
Ricci was recording works by Pablo de Sarasate and a collection of compositions by one of his longtime admirers-Fritz Kreisler. who heard Ricci play as a child. Included were Sarasate's Malagueña and Zapateado, Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud and La Gitana. Standing with a kind of Frank Sinatra slouch before the double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate...
...youthful figure in tight 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...
...from a rich cultural background; the "Bolero" and "Seguidilla," in particular, are two which depict the temperment of Spanish myth and ceremony. Ballerina Nila Amparo is lithe and electrifying in "Bolero." On the humorous side, Teresa and Juanele Maya do the famous wife-husband fight in "Bulerias." The fiery "Zapateado", works up to such a dramatic ending that the crowd demands to see it all again...