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Kate -> Remake of Los Tarantos ( Tomatito and Andrés) (Apr. 5 2004 17:05:17)
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Last week all the flamencos de Granada were talking about one thing, the
remake of Los Tarantos, the film starring Carmen Amaya, only this time to be
staged as a theatre musical. Apparantly Tomatito and Chicuelo are to provide music live, not playback and it is to be directed by Javier la Torre.
Auditions were held here in Granada ( and all over Andalucia) last week
searching for dancers. By chance our sponsered dancer Andrés went along
to accompany a friend, not expecting to audition but was asked if he would.
His audition went very well and he has been put on the short list to play
the Romeo character and is now waiting to find out the results.
Meanwhile we are still trying to raise the money for this months fees for
his appeal to pay the Mario Maya School. We have €176 left in the pot and
every month we need €390. I recently had a wonderful email from a dancer
teacher from the dancer forum whose students have collected over €100 to
help Andrés, but even when that arrives we are still looking for another
€100 to reach our target for April.
In the future Andrés will pay us all back by becoming one of the best
dancers of his generation. If he gets the job with 'Lo Tarantos' I suggest we all get to Barcelona and see the show oh and meet Tomatito [:)]
In the meantime fingers crossed for Andrés and thank you again for all your
support and if there is anyone who wants to contribute and hasn't done so
yet, or wants to do so again, every little counts. Only three more months to
go.
By the way a journalist was at the auditions and published a piece the next day with a wonderful photo of Andrés, I shall it right now to Simon, and in the article she actually mentions his new dancing boots. Andrés could not work out why she talked about what he was wearing, but I think she was impressed with his elegance and style. Anyway the boots ( which we all helped buy) were noticed.
mil gracias
Kate
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