When she enters the stage, even in Spain where the public is however talkative, silence is made immediately.
Impressive power of this dancer who, in three gestures, takes possession of the room as if the spectators were dumbfounded.
Such is the aura of Sara Baras.
This dancer brought the ancestral flamenco into the 21st century, following the line of the famous
Blood Wedding
by Antonio Gades, filmed by Carlos Saura in 1981.
It would be wrong to think that flamenco belongs to folklore.
It is a lively expression of Andalusia and little girls practice it from childhood.
Sara Baras developed her own, both racy and unique, from the age of 8, at the very heart of the school her mother ran in the Cadiz region.
At 15, little Baras goes on stage for the first time.
Three years later, she won first prize in the local television competition – a sort of Spanish-style “
The Voice
”, dedicated not to the voice but to flamenco – and became…
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