¡Universal Flamenco Dancer! –By L. Sainz. Poor Carmen Amaya! She was at her house in Begur, obeying the doctor Puigvert. - Complete rest, Carmen. Before the eminent urologist the famous “star” offered a recital in Costa Brava. - It’s my life, doctor! She danced for a group of friends; maybe the dancer had a feeling for something. The same guitars that accompanied Amaya have black cloths. While watching her dancing for the last time in our Theatre Barcelona, a woman said to her husband: “She is the only woman who can wear trousers”. Carmen Amaya has been unique. She…
TRIBUTE TO THE CATALAN DANCER
BUENOS AIRES HAS PAYED A TRIBUTE IN MEMORY OF THE FLAMENCO DANCER CARMEN AMAYA- LA VANGUARDIA, Tuesday 22th November 1966. A bronze plaque is placed in honour to the great dancer in the Mayo Avenue cross with Salta Street in Buenos Aires, 21. – A bronze plaque in memory of the flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya has been put today in this city by the representatives of the Spanish group, the Argentinian artistic family and the local authorities in order to tribute the great flamenco dancer. In the plaque, placed in the square where the avenue Mayo and the street Salta…
CARMEN AMAYA STROLLS AROUND THE SOMORROSTRO OF HER CHILDHOOD
Amaya looked for her childhood traces in the Somorrostro. By Sempronio. It was 1951 when Carmen Amaya came to Barcelona to perform and I decided to refute the fact that she was born in the Sacro Monte in Granada. -I am Catalan; born in the Somorrostro beach- said Carmen. -Shall we go one day to see your house? I proposed. She accepted. She said that she thought about that many times but always had a weird apprehension. So since she left, in her childhood, she had never come back to the dirty sand of the Somorrostro. A neighbourhood of…
THE ART OF THE FAMOUS FLAMENCO DANCER CARMEN AMAYA FROM BARCELONA
The Art of the famous flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya from Barcelona The art of Camen Amaya was unique and inimitable. She had a wonderful choreographic attractiveness. She was intuitive and natural. Her feeling went beyond the heart without the barrier the academic behaviour put on ideas. She was an autodidactic of her own art. For the audience, in general, was not easy to judge Carmen Amaya correctly. The pure and gypsy art is very difficult to interpret and, therefore, to understand. The flamenco, both the sing and the dance, have a special charm “duende” and spell, even a background which…