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On August 8, 2018, a new chapter of Stray Travelers -rechristened later as Travelers Four– and on that occasion they were visiting one of the most admired cities on the planet: New York. But the reporter and the cameraman of the program were not going to travel the corners of the Big Apple alone, they would do it hand in hand with several well-known Spanish faces. This was announced by the chain itself: “Cuatro’s globetrotting program has traveled to New York this time. There, it has had some luxury tourist guides: the painter Domingo Zapata, the model Rocío Crusset and the bailaor Rafael Amargo (45 years) among others show us the best known capital in the world “.
Two years later, in the middle of December 2020, that video takes on a new dimension since the dancer has made the news these days after being arrested last Tuesday for allegedly belonging to a criminal gang linked to the sale of drugs. And already in that innocent chapter in which he narrated his stay in the American city he also revealed an anecdote with the police that gave him an unexpected scare.
Friends, Tonight at Callejeros Viajeros (10:45 pm at Cuatro) I tell, together with José Andrés, Alejandro Sanz and Rafael Amargo among others, the dream of living in New York ???? #streetway #newyork #New York pic.twitter.com/3G9mA6PIB0
– Ana Vidal Egea (@anavidalegea) August 8, 2018
Journalists from Travelers Four se They met with Rafael Amargo on the Brooklyn Bridge, there, in front of the tourists, he demonstrated his talent for dancing, he clapped his hands as only his flamenco art allows him and he wasted strength on one of the most emblematic monuments of New York. After a few minutes of dancing, the Granada-born man walked with the reporter and told her how he got to the city of the Statue of Liberty and revealed that he was teaching at a small academy.
But the real adventure began the next day. The program stayed with the painter Domingo Zapata and after learning about his story they picked up Amargo in a car because both artists knew each other very well. “A Sunday with Domingo”, the dancer joked while the reporter yelled at him “You’re late, Rafael!”.
Rafael Amargo telling the camera of ‘Callejeros Viajeros’ his anecdote with the Police.
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After greeting his friend and on the way to The Hamptons -the luxurious area located in the eastern sector of Long Island in New York state full of mansions-, the bailaor told how he had met Domingo and what is his most peculiar memory together to the.
“Domingo is very generous and we were here in New York one day and suddenly one day he said to me ‘Come, come, join me.’ After a while I hear ‘pi pi pi’ the Police, I say ‘my mother, where are we going’. And he says ‘quick, take the brush’. And since I don’t dare to draw next to him because I respect his art very much, I wrote a poem by a great author that we both like very much, Manuel Molina: I fell asleep to not think and dreamed of precisely what I wanted to forget“.
The mural painted in New York by Domingo Zapata in which the poem that Amargo painted with a brush is read.
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The dancer was fulfilling a dream to be able to live in the Big Apple, since he is a great admirer of Federico Garcia Lorca and in fact, he brought it to life on stage in 2002 with the play Poet in New York and in this 2020 in the Yerma show, by the same author.
Amargo has triumphed for more than a decade throughout the world, from Asia to America, thanks to the talent of its feet and the rhythm that it has implanted in its veins. However, he is currently making more headlines for his private life and scandals than for his art on stage.
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