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Tag: Flamenco

Adopting an Additional Identity

10th December 202011th December 2020  Toni Roberts

Little did Toni Roberts know that her decision to study Spanish at school would turn into a life-long love for a language that has since given her confidence, creativity and, above all, joy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Christine and the Queens, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, French, Frida Kahlo, GCSE, Languages, Life in Languages, Life writing, Rosalía, Spanish, Spanish songs, Toni Roberts, Translation

Women of the Night, Chapter 1: Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”

3rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.

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Posted in Arts, Books, TheatreTagged: Abortion, Billie Piper, Blood Wedding, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Johan Persson, La Barraca, Lorca, Marc Brenner, National Theatre, Night / Shift, Rural trilogy, Southern Spain, Spain, The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night, Yerma, Young Vic

Patricia Guerrero’s Catedral at Sadler’s Wells

19th July 201919th July 2019  Victoria Smith

Dancers move from the restrictive confines of seventeenth-century-inspired Catholicism to the liberating, empowering passion of flamenco in Patricia Guerrero’s scintillating piece, Catedral.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Catedral, Dance, Flamenco, Flamenco Festival London, Patricia Guerrero, Sadler's Wells

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras’ ‘Sombras’ at Sadler’s Wells’ Flamenco Festival London 2019

8th July 201910th July 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras opens this year’s Flamenco Festival London at Sadler’s Wells to well-deserved uproarious applause with their enthrallingly innovative and spectacular show, Sombras.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Andalusia, Ballet Flamenco, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, Dance, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Flamenco Festival London, Israel Fernàndez, Keko Baldomero, La farruca, Lorca, Rubio de Pruna, Sadler's Wells, Sara Baras, Sombras, Southern Spain, Spain
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