Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras in Vuela: a theatrical spectacular

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras in Vuela

Sara Baras and the company in Vuela

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras in Vuela

By Graham Watts, 29 May 2025

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“the rhythms of seven pairs of feet were enhanced by the simultaneous stamping of their walking canes”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 27 May 2025

Vuela (Sara Baras)

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras

Sara Baras, Director

Ras Artesanos, Set Designer

Luis F. Dos Santos, Costume Designer

Óscar Gómez De Los Reyes, Lighting Designer

Keko Baldomero, Director

Alexis Lefevre, Violin

Rafael Moreno, Percussion

Matías (El Mati) López, Flamenco singer

Andrés Martinez, Flamenco guitar

May Fernández, Flamenco singer

Daniel Saltares, Dancer

Explosive, majestic and arresting: Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras' Alma

Graham Watts, 5th July

Shows by Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras reach out beyond the confined world of flamenco aficionados. It is flamenco with a West End touch.

****1

Sara Baras lights up the stage at Sadler's Wells

Graham Watts, 3rd July

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras at the Flamenco Festival London.

****1

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: La Pepa

Christine Holley, 1st March

If you like your flamenco hot and heroic, with a dash of pathos, La Pepa at Sadlers Wells will not disappoint. By Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras.

*****

The Trocks at Sadler’s Wells: uproariously entertaining

Graham Watts, 5th May

A very welcome and hilarious return to the UK from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, this time at Sadler’s Wells, they offer familiar and new works.

****1

Acosta's Don Quixote for BRB: polished but not quite enough panache

Jonathan Gray, 23rd April

Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote for Birmingham Royal Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells with polished but low-key interpretations across the board.

***11

The Center Will Not Hold: Dorrance Dance thrills at Sadler’s Wells

Daniel Pratt, 17th April

Dorrance Dance offer a compelling mix of genres in The Center Will Not Hold – high energy, full of surprises, top quality performances.

****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.