Sex in motion. (New York Notebook).Flamenco flamenco, Spanish music and dance typical of the Gypsy, or gitano. Flamenco dancing is characterized by colorful costumes, intense and erotic movements, stamping of the feet (zapateado), and clapping of the hands (palmada Vivo Carlota Santana dedicates its twentieth-anniversary season to company co-founder Roberto Lorca, whose choreography helped revitalize re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. American flamenco from the '60s to the '80s. For the Joyce season (June 10-15), Artistic Director Carlota Santana has restaged Lorca's Luz y Sombra (1986) a Gypsy version of Salome. Disguised as the Angel of Death, folk heroine La Petenera seduces then kills her man, whipping WHIPPING, punishment. The infliction of stripes. 2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and northern states to the penitentiary system. her black bata de cola like the tail of a snake. "For Lorca," recalls Santana, "Luz y Sombra was autobiographical. He staged his exit." One year later, Lorca died of AIDS. Santana dances briefly in Antonio Hidalgo's sexy, salsa-flamenco fusion, Bailes de Ida y Vuelta. "The hips are loose in this piece," she says. Undulating pelvises ride quicksilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. flamenco footwork. "My contribution to flamenco is to commission cutting-edge work in which both women and men are powerful." |
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