Estefanía Suissa

"Flamenco...entre nosotros"

When somebody tells a secret (at least in Spain) they say something to the other person that seals a commitment : " let's keep this between us". In the same way, after years of work in solitaire or sharing sensations, these artists have acquired a commitment within themselves and for the art of flamenco. From this commitment "Flamenco… entre nosotros" it is born..

All of them know that flamenco is learned in the street and it is transmitted on the stage. And they love it so much that it has ripped just a little bit of the street, where the day and the night, the love and hate, the laughter and the weeping, the hunger and the satiety do not require intellect to be understood because they are universal feelings, that raise them to the top of the platforms and share them. They try to catch the spectator in a world of sensations, where these feelings count on that special pleasure of communication that flamenco has; the way to live slowly that today´s society is reglecting for lack of time.

A certain John Ray, who was botanist and possibly understood very little of flamenco, said something that is perfectly applied to this art: "To see is to believe; to feel, to be assured"

And also, it would be necessary to add: to feel to be able to believe in what you see.

So it is still possible to feel the weight and the stillness of the time that maintains Earth through weeping and the round silence of singing by soleá…. One can sigh with the eternal intermittence of a Seguiriya danced to precise outlines. Perhaps… it is possible to remember having been happy attending the spontaneous and imposing musical dialogue of bulería; the authentic shout of street improvisation, perfectly synchronized by the complicity and simple understanding.

Definitely, and fleeing from the form by the form, a dance to the service of music and music to the service of the dance. Creating an intimate dialogue among those whom are on the stage to create spaces to which they would have to look into, at least once in a lifetime, those that are not scared to see, neither to feel, nor to believe… nor to stop the time.