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Florian -> RE: Sara Baras - Sabores (Jan. 10 2008 22:32:53)
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lol thanks [:D]
like i said different styles and tastes do it for everybody but to me and many others flamenco is pefection, yes but rough around the edges, unpredictable, honest, dirty, human (if you notice the technique the dancer has failed to tell her story)...whatever, tripping allover my words again [8|].
Sara is too light, aerial in her marking, not enough force and conviction, dances everything like its the guajira. to be fair she is getting way more grounded thow as she is getting older, life and experience has left its mark on her, but because she has spent so long of it dancing pretty flamenco and catoring to the eye and pleasing the audience i gues its taking me a while to trust it.
(thats another thing a greate flamenco dancer is aware the audience is there but they have a story to tell , and will not change it or look to the audeience or smile to them every sec for approval, they tell they'r story because they belive in it and are living it..and if the audience likes it they applaud if not screw em, thats the element of danger i was talking about, the dancers are not there to entertain the audience, are there because they have a story they wanna tell so bad, when done honestly that is what should entertain the audience, the fact that they belive that the dancer is living the story).
Like the guy wearing the white suit and the Sombrero in the Alegrias in the Sabores dvd. he smiles and aknolodges the audience also but its a different thing, hes got a story to tell , you can see how much it means to him and u can see how personal it is to him.
she has the best turns and great footwork thow and i do watch all of her dvds and do enjoy them for costumes, music, ideas, choreography, singing etc.
at a festival in madrid 2 years ago Sara had a concert at around the same time as Farruquito
Saras' majority audience was filled with 40- 60 year olds Spanish midlle - upper class (dont really care about flamenco, just wanna be seen out, go to flamenco shows once a year)
and Farruiquito's majority audience consisted of 20 - 60 year olds Gitanos (who stay outside the venue in the street afterthe concert and dance buleria till all hours of the morning and live and breathe flamenco )
I cant belive i am criticising Sara lol, well over the years i been forced to watch every dance dvd by dancers and i guess i developed an opinion and a taste in the subject, and gotten quite picky with what does it for me...but its just an personal opinion.
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As for great dancers, try to see Fuensanta la Moneta from Granada.
Seán
who is she ? where can I see her ? is she on a dvd ? I live in Australia
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