flamenco


  • Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival 2023

    Ranging from 27 to 83, the Gala Flamenca dancers – El Yiyo, Manuel Liñan, Alfonso Losa and Carrete de Málaga – speak about their takes on and takeaways from the art of flamenco


  • Rocío Molina: Fallen from Heaven

    Programme note about Rocío Molina’s iconoclastic work, with biography and context


  • Isabel Bayón Compañía: Dju-Dju

    A collaboration with Israel Galván, Isabel Bayón’s mix of kitsch and horror is an exhilaratingly impish take on the dark and comic absurdities of flamenco


  • Dance Umbrella 2017: roundup review

    A selection of works from London’s Dance Umbrella 2017


  • Paco Peña: Patrias

    Captivating flamenco music and dance bogged down by poetry and drama, in Paco Peña’s tribute to Federico García Lorca


  • Farruquito & Farruco: Buen Arate

    Flamenco dancer Farruquito is from a formidable bloodline, but the music weaved a greater ancestral spell in the show Buen Arate


  • Paco Peña: Flamencura

    A transfixing glimpse into flamenco’s unsettled soul


  • Ballet Nacional de España

    Elegantly schooled dancers are great to watch but need better choreographic material (though their costume material is just fine)


  • Dad dancing: Akram Khan & Israel Galván

    Akram Khan and Israel Galván may be very different dancers, but ageing and fatherhood bring shared experiences


  • Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: La Pepa

    A characteristically commanding and polished performance by Sara Baras is let down by god-and-country values