Flamenco action painting – interview with Patricio Hidalgo Morán.

SPLASH! Things will get messy…There it goes, emotion blotched on the canvas to magically form a flamenco singer. Or dancer. Or guitarist. Whatever the moment brings him, Spanish artist Patricio Hidalgo Morán invents a performing art called ‘live-action-flamenco-painting’. I interviewed him with flamenco panache and found out: combine flamenco with action painting and things will get…

Flamenco entertainment- LIVE from Seville, Spain

Flamenco painter Patricio Hidalgo took me for a fantastic flamenco night in the Spanish city of Seville in a place where he painted the stage design and where flamenco history is still very tangible. Read on to join me in my magical encounters with flamenco. One of the greatest things of Seville is the omnipresence of flamenco. Different…

Flamenco Artworks© Weekly Inspiration:  Sara Baras dances with paintings

Julio Romero de Torres (1874-1930) painted such beautiful portraits of Andalusian belles, that more than a century later they are still an inspiration for many artists, and provide a most beautiful artistic background for dancer Sara Baras in this movie by Carlos Saura called ‘Flamenco Flamenco’. In this dance scene in the movie we see flamenco dancer Sara…

Musa

REVIEW A ‘muse’ is what the ancient Greeks called the feminine deities that inspired artists. And they have been generous with their gift of inspiration in the case of Musa, a show by María Marín and Irene Álvarez that combines several of the arts with the classical Spanish guitar and flamenco dance in the lead.