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Home | Cinema & TV | Flamenco Artists Show A Balm For Weary Souls

Flamenco artist’s show a balm for weary souls

By AFP
Published: Published Date - 04:58 PM, Sun - 13 December 20
'We have to move forward, life goes on', says Spain's Joaquin Cortes

Madrid: Music and dance as a healing balm for pandemic-weary souls is what Spain’s Joaquin Cortes had in mind for his new show that opens this Christmas ahead of a global tour.
After a year away from the stage, the legendary flamenco artist who has been dancing for nearly four decades, returns to the spotlight on December 23 when his new show debuts at Madrid’s WiZink auditorium.

“Culture is both necessary and vital for everyone, and dance and music are medicine for the soul,” he shared between rehearsals in the Spanish capital. Acutely aware of the damage caused to the arts by the pandemic which has cancelled countless shows, tours and concerts, Cortes wants his new act to encourage people back into theatres.

The idea is to show that “it’s safe, that people have to get out and watch shows,” said the 51-year-old who was born into a gypsy family in the southern city of Cordoba. “Just like when you go to the supermarket or in the metro and nothing happens, it’s a lot safer,” he said, referring to restrictions on numbers in theatres and the mandatory use of masks.

Entitled Esencia (“Essence”), the new show fuses flamenco with jazz dance and salsa, with music composed by Cortes and well-known flamenco musicians the Carbonell brothers. The idea was to fuse “everything I’ve learned and experienced through my global travels” over a decades-long career that began when he was admitted to Spain’s National Ballet at the age of 14.

“It’s the maturing of an artist… your own fragrance, your own essence, your life, your way of expressing the many things you’ve absorbed that comes out in your dance and the way you express yourself as choreographer, as creator,” said Cortes, known for fusing flamenco with classical and contemporary dance.

The plan is to take the show around the world starting in March or April, although he admits much will depend on the rollout of anti-Covid vaccines. Produced entirely on his own without any third-party backing, Esencia will see him performing alongside artists like flamenco singer Estrella Morente. “For me returning to the stage is very important, I cut my teeth on a stage. The stage is my bedroom, it’s my fantasy world,” he says.

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