Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: La Pepa

By Christine Holley, 03 March 2014

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 1 March 2014

La Pepa (Sara Baras)

Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras

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****1

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Christine Holley

Christine Holley’s long involvement in contemporary dance and flamenco includes teaching, performance and choreography – elements that permeate her work as a visual artist. Her specialist subject is Ballets Russes and its impact on visual arts, her writing on which is held in the National Library of Art at London’s V&A Museum and by other major arts organisations.