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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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<P><B>Timeless grace</B><P><BR>Ismene Brown reviews Eva la Yerbabuena performing New Generation Flamenco at Royal Festival Hall<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>THE romantic idea about flamenco is that it is Spain's gypsies singing the blues, sharing private feelings about their eternal oppression. The reality is that it makes money for them, and always did, particularly once dancing attached itself to the old campfire songs. Making money and being the latest thing in flamenco have always gone hand in hand, and it's impossible to pin down what is exactly old or new in it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=005600859563759&rtmo=VrJrDJfK&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/7/23/bteva23.html" TARGET=_blank><B>more....</B></A><P> 
<P>For our Spanish readers, here is an <A HREF="http://66.33.46.224/artists/evalayerbabuena/eyerbabuen.htm" TARGET=_blank><B>interview with Eva.</B></A> <BR><p>[This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited July 22, 2001).]
<P><B>The remarkable Eva La Yerbabuena puts a new spin on flamenco, and the Royal Ballet wave goodbye to an old friend. By Clifford Bishop</B> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Mere prettiness fades quickly in the Spanish sun, and has little place in flamenco, which is more often about the ability to harness misery and turn it into strength. Flamenco is an art that deals in strong colours (one derivation of the word traces it back to the gaudy Flemish ambassadors to the Spanish court, who also lent their name to the flamingo) and stronger emotions (there are entire styles devoted to the despair of imprisonment, or the death of a loved one). It has been called the Spanish blues, in which case Eva La Yerbabuena is its Charlie Parker.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/29/sticuldnc02002.html" TARGET=_blank><B>more...</B></A>