Paco Peña's Solera the perfect flamenco blend at Sadler's Wells

Par Graham Watts, 24 avril 2022

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“despite knocking on the octogenarian door, Peña’s mastery of the guitar is undiminished”

Critique faite à Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres, le 20 avril 2022

Solera (Fernando Romero)

Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company

Jude Kelly, Mise en scène

Paco Peña, Guitare

Dani de Morón, Guitare

Rafael Montilla, Guitare

Iván Carpio, Chant flamenco

Inmaculada Rivero, Chant flamenco

Julio Alcocer, Percussions

Ángel Muñoz, Danse

Gabriel Matías, Danse

Adriana Bilbao, Danse

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****1

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.