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A Sleeping Beauty Tale, Grand Theatre, Leeds
by ZOE ANDERSON for the Independent
published: February 27, 2007
What is it about colour-co-ordinated flamenco? When dancers have matching frocks, it often leads to a lot of wafting about, and not enough good dancing. So it is with El Huso de la Memoria (The Spindle of Memory) by Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena. The award-winning Yer-babuena is known for experimentation, but this show only comes alive during her two traditional solos.
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Eva Yerbabuena
by DONALD HUTERA for the Times
published: February 27, 2007
It began curiously with some underdeveloped, patience-testing theatre games for Yerbabuena’s seven-strong ensemble. Later four men danced a symmetrically arranged abstraction and three women travelled as a wedge-shaped unit. The regimental patterns persisted in a full-company segment set on stools. Supplementing the dry, uptight group choreography were brief appearances by a restless, barefoot female, who stretched and contracted in response to a full-throated but unfortunately untranslated male vocalist. She was plainly a symbolic figure, but of what? Poignant, rueful memories? I can only guess, but was never made to care.
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