A jotera, a dancer flamenco and a Valencian dancer painted by Joaquin Sorolla a century ago they came to life again in an original show where music and painting came together to bring NY las spanish traditions.
The interior of the Hispanic Society of the Big Apple was the unusual setting for a private concert held within the framework of the Flamenco Festival of NY and which had as protagonists guitar player Alejandro Hurtadothe singer Gabriel de la Tomasa and several dancers National Ballet of Spain (BNE).
“It is very nice to bring the Spanish dance to unconventional spaces that reach a different audience, and the experience it creates is very special. Being able to see how paintings come to life It is a historic and unique experience,” the festival organizer, Miguel Marín, told EFE.
La Hispanic had not hosted events of this type in the gallery dedicated to Sorolla: The collection, made up of 14 large canvases, is the largest outside of Spain and is specially protected by the institution.
The founder of the museum, Archer Milton Huntingtoncommissioned Valencian painter this series of enormous canvases (which portray the customs of different Spanish regions) and prohibited their leaving the museum. Huntington’s rule has only been broken once, between 2007 and 2010, when the works were exhibited in different cities in Spain.
In this historic event, which coincides with the centenary of Sorollahe Spanish customs that the Valencian represented with outstanding mastery in his projects materialized in the form of Spanish dance and singing.
And show almost improvised that was up to the task
Today’s performance was somewhat improvised, since at first the guitar player guest was the Sevillian Rafael Riqueniwho became ill and had to cancel his intervention, said Marín.
But his substitute, Alejandro Hurtadowas at the height of an audience totally dedicated to the ‘show’, and his guitar performance was key to giving life to the protagonists of Sorollaperformed by the BNE dancers, who wore the same clothes as the characters painted by Sorolla.
With a basket of oranges under his arm, Estela Alonso opened the showrepresenting the dancers in the painting ‘Valencia. The rump‘, where they tour the city on horseback and surrounded by symbols of the Valencian capital, such as the temple of the patron saint, the Virgen de los Desamparados.
To the rhythm of the castanets, the Hurtado guitar and some typical rhythms of the region that played from a loudspeaker, Alonso danced gracefully throughout the gallery, in a story-like image carefully illustrated by the immense canvases of the Valencian painter.
The jota of Aragon He also had his moment at the hands of Sara Arevalo, who with a traditional green dress, her hair up and a picture of the Virgin of Pilar on her lapel imitated the young joteras who dance happily in front of the Pyrenees in ‘Aragón. The jota’.
Of course, a painting dedicated to andalusian flamenco He was also honored in this week dedicated to the musical genre: it was the dancer’s moment Ruben Olmosdirector of the BNE, who captivated the audience by moving along its white mulch in an enveloping and hypnotic way.
All these performances were linked by the emotional songs of Gabriel de la Tomasawho in his first intervention performed with emotion a the hour to the Virgin carried by ‘The Nazarenes’ of Sorolla in a procession during Holy Week in Seville.
In his second performance, Tomasa performed a thriller as he looked and pointed to the largest canvas in the collection, ‘The Running of the Bulls’, which depicts a scene in Ayamonte in which two mayorales (the bull’s guardians) try to guide and confine these animals while they ride on their horses.
The protagonists of the paintings Sorolla They gathered in a last dance to the sound of the Hurtado guitar and Tomasa’s voice, forming together a real painting that, from today, will be part of this permanent and historical collection of the Valencian painter.
2024-03-07 15:26:00
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