Cristina Hoyos, her career, her life, her battle with cancer...

Cristina Hoyos is by far one of the all time most fantastic and authentic Bailaoras in living memory, there have been and are still some amazing Bailaoras del baile flamenco around, but she has been the Crème de la Crème in my opinion. Here is a little insight into the life & career of someone who in my opinion has been and still is the greatest ambassador to the art of traditional flamenco dancing in Spain & all over the world.

Cristina Hoyos reflects on her latest work, her long career and interesting life, "I consider myself a bridge between the past and the future" she says.....

"I don’t know if it’s the cancer or age, but I take small things less seriously now".

http://www.esflamenco.com/scripts/news/ennews.asp?frmIdPagina=688

Interview with Cristina Hoyos. Romancero Gitano. Directora del Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía http://www.deflamenco.com/entrevistas/cristinahoyos3/indexi.jsp


http://www.andalucia.com/flamenco/dancers/cristina-hoyos.htm

Cristina Hoyos - Sevilla 1946
https://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/shop.php?&vshopfe...id_aut=163&id_lang=2

En Castellano Cristina Hoyos Sevilla 1946
https://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/shop.php?&vshopfe...id_aut=163&id_lang=1

Cristina Hoyos
http://www.esflamenco.com/bio/en10380.html

Teatro Español in Madrid, Cristina Hoyos translates 'Yerma' by Federico García Lorca to the language of dancing http://www.esflamenco.com/scripts/news/ennews.asp?frmIdPagina=137

En Castellano http://www.esflamenco.com/scripts/news/esnews.asp?frmIdPagina=137

Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=CRISTINA+HOYOS+-...=Google+Search&meta=

Cristina Hoyos, age 46 - 1992 Olympics Barcelona
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2joZ8RPvrWw&mode=related&search=


Misc:
http://www.red2000.com/spain/flamenco/


Saludos
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Passion

Antonio Gades: Flamenco / Carmen

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oLbRtUAmx3g&mode=related&search=



We believe there is a place that lives within us all. It is a place of vision and clarity, where the rhythm of life moves in harmony with a higher consciousness.

The purpose of this music/dance is to take you there.

"As in music, so in life"

By; Ottmar Liebert.


Then there is "Duende"

We take our cue from the great Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. He gave a famous lecture on La Teoria y Juego del Duende – The Theory and Function of Duende. Lorca says:

"All through Andalusia . . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears.

The wonderful flamenco singer El Lebrijano said: ‘When I sing with duende, no one can equal me.’ . . . Manuel Torres, a man with more culture in his veins than anybody I have known, when listening to Falla play his own ‘Nocturno del Genaralife,’ made his splendid pronouncement: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’ And there is no greater truth.

"These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots thrusting into the fertile loam known to all of us, ignored by all of us, but from which we get what is real in art. . . .

"Thus duende is a power and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of real live form; of blood; of ancient culture; of creative action."

Federico Garcia Lorca

So we have taken the name DUENDE in order to honor Lorca’s dark creative force. Duende is there to challenge us to keep our ears open to the ‘dark sounds,’ to keep our touch with the earth and with the ghosts of those who have come before, to never refuse the struggle which is needed to keep the spirits working on the side of truth.


http://www.duendedrama.com/duendees.htm

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980622/the_a...preciation.th29.html

http://hype.sdsu.edu/mayer/mayerLAtimes.html

Federico García Lorca
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_1mjcvaF8&mode=related&search=

Federico Garcia Lorca
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuBFWsHX_U&mode=related&search=

Saludos