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Review: BALLET FLAMENCO SARA BARAS: ALMA, Sadler's Wells . The Olivier Award-winning dance legend returns to kick off Sadler's Wells' Flamenco Festival

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All in all, Sombras will be remembered not just for Sara Baras's sharp, zingy choreography and fashionable costumes, but also for its visually stunning production. And as all flamenco artists do, she paid homage to the past, returned to traditions in the style she is world-renowned for. May the shadow of 'Farruca' always stay with her.

La Pepa, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, Sadler's Wells The Arts Desk

Few performers, in any style of dance, can light up the stage with anything approaching the imperious charisma of Sara Baras.She works the stage as if she owns it - and every other stage in the world - and when Baras pushes her clenched fist into her chest to symbolically wrench out her heart and fling it into the audience, a gesture she repeats twice in the closing minutes of her extended.

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Leading the charge has been Sara Baras, now 52, who first came to notice not only for her penchant for performing in trousers but for challenging male prowess in traditionally men-only dances. Her signature Farruca strikes an almost martial stance, chest held high, hand on hip. Now garlanded with major awards over three decades Baras has.

Sombras, Sadler’s Wells, review Sara Baras’s flexible footwork opens London’s Flamenco Festival

Sara Baras is a natural choice to kick off the annual Flamenco festival at Sadler's Wells. She is not only a formidable dancer but also a consummate professional: not for her the grime of the.

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Sara Baras performing Alma at Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival (Photo: Sofia Wittert) The festival, a fiesta of dance, guitar and song now in its 18th year, has become an institution, showing.

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The advancing years (she is 52) have had no effect on either her artistry or energy, although Alma was less a marathon than a series of well-paced and well-dispersed sprints. Baras remains in majestic, dazzling form, giving several arresting solos, including the lyrical nostalgia of the Seguiriya and the explosive, triumphant joy of the Bulería.

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T he opening section of Sara Baras's new work is a wonder. After some atmospheric shapes thrown by her supporting dancers, men and women wearing suits, tilting microphones under conical.

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Dance review: Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: La Pepa, Sadler's Wells Sara Baras is a star, of that there's no doubt. The 45-minute delay to the British premiere of her latest show, La.

Voces, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, Sadler's Wells The Arts Desk

Sadler's Wells' annual Flamenco Festival kicked off in great style with Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras' Sombras, the veteran dancer's dramatic new show

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Alma promises to be an exhilarating evening with the "Flamenco queen" herself. A living legend in the flamenco world, Sara Baras has spent the past 30 years building an internationally lauded career as a dancer, director, and choreographer. Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance—as well as a slew of Spain.

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Challenging the traditionalists, Sara Baras synchronises music, lighting and design with dance to astonish and inspire. by Danica Katich. The Flamenco festival at Sadlers Wells in London is designed to show how the form can reinvent itself without losing those features that are its essence. "Sombras", (the Spanish for shadows) the show that.

Voces, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, Sadler's Wells The Arts Desk

Friday July 04 2008, 1.00am, The Times. Sara Baras is one of the classiest, most contemporary flamencas, respecting the traditions of her chosen art form while smoothly and surely pushing it into.

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She partners both instrumentalists and singers, pulling them out to the fore in true flamenco style. One minute it's a professional theatre production, the next it is a free-for-all in a nightclub, bar or square. It's all about percussion. Life's beating heart. Or its therapy, a release, an exorcism of emotion.

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Sara Baras is a flamenco star whose explosive stage presence will leave you breathless. I was lucky to see her last year at Sadler's Wells and I remember sur.