BAILAORES Flamenco Documentary - Prize for Best Work DOCUMENTAMADRID
Bailaores - an award-winning Documentary directed by film-maker and dancer Albertina Pisano - is the intimate portrait of four outstanding artists of contemporary flamenco dance: Rafaela Carrasco, Israel Galvàn, Andrés Marìn and Belén Maya. Each with his own peculiar style, they all share the same artistic necessity: to break the boundaries of flamenco dance and make it a universal art form.
They all refuse the commercialization and standardisation of their art and claim for a flamenco that is non-sensational, true, in which personal innovation stands along with the respect for a deep-rooted tradition.
Flamenco, born as a musical syncretism, beyond being an art, still is a complex cultural system. "The expression of our moaning", for Andrés; "The dance of the unknown", for Israel. The documentary is an ideal dialogue among the four about the sense of their artistic quest, their life, their creativity.
They all refuse the commercialization and standardisation of their art and claim for a flamenco that is non-sensational, true, in which personal innovation stands along with the respect for a deep-rooted tradition.
Flamenco, born as a musical syncretism, beyond being an art, still is a complex cultural system. "The expression of our moaning", for Andrés; "The dance of the unknown", for Israel. The documentary is an ideal dialogue among the four about the sense of their artistic quest, their life, their creativity.