Gypsy King ; Hailing From One of Flamenco's Most Renowned Families, 21-Year-Old Farruquito Is Taking the Traditional Spanish Dance Form Back to Its Roots. Sarah Frater Meets Him

Evening Standard - London › February 05, 2004

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Watch the flamenco dancer known as Farruquito walk on stage, and you're not sure if you should cheer or weep, or run and hide. His stride is a charismatic glide, a step and a pause, and then a slow slide of the back foot that is two-parts languor, two-parts danger.

Farruquito wears the sharpest of suits, slim trousers, slim jacket, his sooty hair long and silky, his inky eyes downcast. It is, literally, the calm before the storm, a moment of stillness before this hugely talented dancer grabs you by the throat and pins you to the wall with one of the wildest, raggedy-raw performances you will see almost anywhere.

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Gypsy King ; Hailing From One of Flamenco's Most Renowned Families, 21-Year-Old Farruquito Is Taking the Traditional Spanish Dance Form Back to Its Roots. Sarah Frater Meets Him

'It's traditional flamenco,' says Farruquito through a translator, emphasising the word traditional several times. 'Flamenco puro no routines, no characters, no stories. Just the dancing. The true flamenco.' Farruquito is sitting backstage at ...

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