This content was published on April 24, 2022 – 23:00
New York, Apr 24 (EFE).- The New York Flamenco Festival closed its twentieth edition this year, after two years of hiatus due to the pandemic, with a “Gala de Andalucía” in which dance was the great winner, and the biggest ovations went to the bailaores from Cádiz and Jerez.
María Moreno, who dazzled the public mainly with her mantilla, and Mercedes Ruiz, who offered a whole recital of heel tapping, were cheered on by a dedicated public from the beginning, as was Eduardo Guerrero, who gave the most “racial” note to a show that did not leave the orthodoxy.
Less fortunate was the singer María Terremoto, considered one of the young revelations of jondo art, and who spent the entire evening battling with an earpiece that gave her problems, which prevented her from giving the best of her art.
The main stars were accompanied by singers Miguel Rosendo and Ismael de la Rosa, as well as guitarists Santiago Lara and Javier Ibáñez, and percussionist Paco Vega.
They all took turns on a sober stage with a blue and red monochrome background at the New York City Center, a space dedicated to dance that Manuel Liñán and his troupe passed through last Friday, with a show that was, in his case, more groundbreaking of “flamenco queer” that delighted an audience dedicated to the cause.
But today’s audience, which filled this more or less neo-Mudejar-inspired room near Central Park (“Moorish revival” they call it in New York), came wanting to enjoy flamenco and applauded each and every one of the styles played, including those with alegrías, tonás, fandangos, tangos and soleás.
The 2022 edition of the Flamenco Festival in New York was opened this year on April 7 by the popular Miguel Poveda, who with his messages about racial or sexual diversity and the world’s ecological awareness could easily get into his pocket in the most politically correct in the world.
Although the Flamenco Festival has New York City as its center, this year several of the shows have also traveled to Los Angeles and Miami, the latter city where the organization of the festival, in charge of the historic Miguel Marín, who today wanted to give the thanks to New York “for so much love”.
Outside of the festival, María Terremoto will offer a more intimate concert accompanied only by guitarist Santiago Lara in the auditorium of the Cervantes Institute in New York. EFE
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