Israel Galván presents his experimental La Curva at London Flamenco Festival

By Cristina de Lucas, 26 March 2013

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 24 March 2013

La Curva (Israel Galván)

Israel Galván, Dancer

Ines Bacan, Vocals

Sylvie Courvoisier, Piano

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 wins rapturous reception in HK

Carla Escoda, 5th March

Israel Galván breaks a lot of sacred eggs at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. A few serendipitous moments add to the fierce beauty of this defiant, narrative-free meditation on a life in 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 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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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.