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On their heels: a flamenco DVD trilogy with fire and soul.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: On their heels: a flamenco DVD trilogy with fire and soul.(dm recommends)(Flamenco Trilogy: Blood Wedding, Carmen and El Amor Brujo)(Video recording review)

Article Excerpt
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy Three DVDs. Blood Wedding, 71 minutes; Carmen, 101 minutes; El Amor Brujo, 103 minutes. Criterion Collection. $35.96.

In a haunting moment early in Carmen, a a dancer pauses as she removes her makeup to stare provocatively at the flamenco choreographer who wants her to be his star. Their gazes collide in a mirror, its flame studded by incandescent bulbs. One of her eyes is newly naked; the other remains thickly shadowed and lined. The image presents the performer's facade, and the woman behind it. Here is flamenco at its most theatrical, its most artifice-laden--yet also fiercely primal, its rhythms derived from and driving the messy, heightened...

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