![]() ![]() QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES, a Portrait of Carmen Amaya.Carmen Amaya description on her grandniece's website.Carmen Amaya Biography and related products.Revista de l'Associació d'Investigació i Experimentació Teatral, año 2008 num 66-67.Carmen Amaya: cuando duermo sueño que estoy bailando. ![]() Pujol Baulenas, Jordi y Carlos García de Olalla (2003).Madridejos Mora, Montserrat y David Pérez Merinero (2013), Carmen Amaya.El flamenco en la Barcelona de la Exposición Internacional (1929-1930). ↑ Antonio's Memorias, quoted in Paco Sevilla p98.Excerpt by : Archived at the Wayback Machine Queen of the gypsies: the life and legend of Carmen Amaya. ↑ Vila Olímpica Archived at the Wayback Machine nowadays.Her hard masculine style of dance was often copied, but many believe she was inimitable and to this day there has never been a dancer to match her ferocious style of dance. Truman in 1953.Īmaya is buried in the Cementiri del Sud-Oest on Barcelona's Montjuïc. She was a gypsy dancer who was to become one of the most outstanding bailaoras (female flamenco dancers) of the twentieth century she was also one of the most imitated. She was invited by Franklin Roosevelt to dance in the White House in 1944, and also by Harry S. p100 Her style has been described as repetitive because she always did the same dances: "Carmen was a fabulous dancer, but limited" ( Antonio Ruiz Soler). Apparently, in early flamenco, women did not do so much footwork, and male dancers used to fill in the steps while sitting on chairs, unseen in the wings. One theory is that she did this to give more scope to her footwork, which was exceptional, and rather like a flamenco male dancer. She moved to America in 1936, where she went on to act in several movies that broke box office records, including the Romeo and Juliet adaptation Los Tarantos, and the short movie Danzas Gitanas (Gypsy dances).Īmaya often danced in trousers rather than the layered skirt traditional for female flamenco dancers. ![]() In 1929, she made her debut in Paris, to warm acclaims and admiration of her dancing skill. He recorded Queen of the Gypsies (1959) and Flamenco! with Amaya. I don’t know how she did it, I just don’t know!". He later said "I saw her dance and it seemed like something supernatural to me. A young person who saw her dance as a girl was the Spanish guitarist Sabicas (Agustín Castellón Campos). Accompanied on the guitar by her father, she danced in waterfront bars in Barcelona. She danced from the time she was 4 years old. and "the most extrardinary personality of all time in flamenco dance". She has been called "the greatest Spanish gypsy dancer of her generation". Script by Alfred Pérez Fargas and Roger Danès "Carmen Amayas Last Dance" was filmed in Molins de Rei, the dancer's birthplace, and at the Vallcara beach (Garraf, Barcelona).1942 at the Lyric, Allentown PA Statue of Amaya in Jardins de Joan Brossa, BarcelonaĬarmen Amaya (2 November 1913 – 19 November 1963) was a flamenco dancer and singer, of gypsy origin, born in the Somorrostro slum of Barcelona, Spain. Juan de Dios Ramírez, Ceferino Giménez, «El Pelé», Mujeres gitanas del siglo XXI. In the end, Candela comes out on stage, possessed by Amaya's spirit. But can she be another Carmen Amaya and capture her charm as a performer? Not easy, and less so when her former injuries cause recurring problems and Candela is told by her doctors that she cannot continue to dance. The plot moves between present and past: Candela, determined to dance as she did before her accident, becomes obsessed with the grand Flamenco dancer whose personal story is told through archive shots and fictional representations.įrom scene to scene, dance to dance, every step that Candela takes is imbued with Carmen's spirit, in an attempt to quiet the critics who claim that the famous Flamenco dancer lost her stage touch. Her opportunity to do that arises when she's invited to participate in a big event celebrating the centennial of the birth of the great bailaora, Carmen Amaya. Candela, the main character, is a Flamenco dancer who wants to get back on stage after suffering a serious accident. The legend exists and powerful Flamenco music and dance are ever-present within it as the past melds into the present in a passionate story that unfolds to the beat of drumming heels.
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