Flamenco's Fashionable Face

Putting the flame in flamenco

Flamenco's Fashionable Face It's rare for a top-drawer exponent of classical dance to also be an international sex-symbol. Unless you're Joaquin Cortes - Flamenco's smoulderingly fashionable face. But is this new take on Flamenco putting the pure form of this art at risk?
Joaquin not only courts international adoration, but also supermodel Naomi Campbell. He has single handedly galvanised a Flamenco revolution with a fusion of musical styles including Salsa, blues and funk. Off the beaten tourist track, in a small bar in Madrid, Jeronimo and Leo Maya's virtuoso guitar performance expertly demonstrates a more purist form of Flamenco. This is the Flamenco the aficionados come to see. Refined and elegant, traditional dancer Gabriel Heredia talks of a history stretching back over 2000 years. Deep in Andalusia, the renowned but pained tones of Rafael Jiminez sound improvised to the untrained ear. Blanca del Rey, a Flamenco prima donna famed for her shawl dance talks of the "most profound and human pain" that is Flamenco. Purists ponder the future of Flamenco in its unsullied form against the contemporary interpretations of an international superstar
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