Lifting Spanish ballet
Angel Corella's ballet company prepares for its New York debut.
MADRID, Spain — Angel Corella lights up the stage with soaring leaps and dazzling turns, his joyful dancing and radiant smile among the wonders of modern day ballet But to become a star, he left his native Spain in 1995 to join American Ballet Theater in New York. Classical ballet has no roots in Spain and every attempt to start a top-flight ballet company had always...
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Fallas 2010: Cabalgata del Fuego
Hola Valencia - Spain - March 21, 2010 13:47 ET
Filmed with the Sanyo VPC – CS 1 (super tiny) available here: USA, UK, Deutschland and Spain The Cabalgata del Fuego, which takes place along Calle Colón at 7pm on the last day of Fallas, is a relatively new addition to the calendar. But what the parade...
So This Is What They Meant By A Pacto De Estado
South of Watford - Spain - March 20, 2010 17:58 ET
Although there seems little chance of the two major parties in Spain reaching agreement over economic measures, it would be wrong to assume that they cannot unite around anything. Just recently we have had two examples of the PSOE and PP finding enough common ground to shoot...
The Lowly Tee Shirt
Spanish Shilling - Spain - March 18, 2010 08:01 ET
I’m not by nature a flashy dresser – I’d have moved to Milano rather than Mojácar if I was – but early this morning I noticed that I needed to give the old shoes a bit of a shine. Well, right after I’d finished scraping the dog mess off them.The shoes, a clean shirt...
Why We Don't Want To Have The "Instruments of Torture" Used in Spain
Edward Hugh, Author, "Spain Economy Watch" - Spain - March 22, 2010 02:30 ET
We may not want the instruments of torture, but if the Spanish government doesn't do something to change course and restore growth to the economy, they will be applied. This post is just to draw the ...
How dissent is crushed on the high street
Nicholas Mead - Spain - March 16, 2010 15:13 ET
“Newsagents take what Smiths [News] tells them is selling well,” says Peter McCaig, of the Independent News Collective, which distributes radical titles such as New Internationalist, Permaculture and Red Pepper. “Which is fair enough. But the result is that...
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