FLA.CO.MEN wins rapturous reception in HK

By Carla Escoda, 07 March 2018

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“a disjointed series of movements of astonishing virtuosity”

Reviewed at Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre, Hong Kong on 5 March 2018

Fla.co.men (Israel Galván)

Flipping the norms: Israel Galván's La Fiesta

Graham Watts, 27th April

Challenging dance theatre mined from highly personal reflections on a childhood spent in the fin de fiestas of flamenco.

***11

FLA.CO.MEN

Graham Watts, 15th February

Deconstructing flamenco in a flaccid affair, lacking the vigour one has come to expect from a performer with such leonine stage presence and passion.

**111

Israel Galván presents his experimental La Curva at London Flamenco Festival

Cristina de Lucas, 24th March

Israel Galván is nowadays a renowned and acclaimed flamenco artist. After years of consolidating good fame as a fine dancer, he started to create his own choreographies in 1998. From his first work, Mira!, he revealed a distinctive style installed in the most innovative and daring side of the flamenco panorama.

**111

Israel Galván au sommet dans El Dorado au Théâtre de la Ville

Julie Jozwiak, 12th October

L'immense artiste flamenco est apparu dans son authenticité la plus profonde dans son spectacle solo accompagné du duo Los Mellis de Huelva.

*****

Grenzerfahrungen bei Israel Galváns la fiesta

Stephan Eckel, 5th June

Israel Galván geht mit anspruchsvollem Flamenco und seinen erweiterten Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten bewusst bis an die Grenzen der Strapazierfähigkeit seines Publikums.

*****

Akram Khan & Israel Gavan

Laurine Mortha, 22nd December

Avec Torobaka, Akram Khan et Israel Galvan puisent dans les origines de leur art pour confronter flamenco et danse traditionnelle kathak, originaire de l’Inde du Nord. Si les techniques s’entrechoquent, le rythme et l’énergie de la danse s’unissent dans un face-à-face époustouflant.

*****

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.

Israel Galván's FLA.CO.MEN wins rapturous reception at Hong Kong Arts Festival