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Rfun Molina has completely redefined What can flamenco be? Some purists say it’s not flamenco at all, and when, three quarters of his latest way, Heatthey sit down on the drum kit and start a 4/4 rock beat, maybe you can join them. But even if the crazy things reach two hours, everything is built on the skill of the flamenco dancer, and that’s where we start this chapter on the topic of basics.
Calentamiento means to warm up, which is what Molina is doing on stage before the audience sits down. He’s starting an exercise routine, 12 beats, the same one he’s been doing since he was seven, he tells us. At 140bpm, he likes to start slowly (!), he says. Heels and toes drive the dancers’ daily routine, so even many prima ballerinas start each day back to barre and plié; the constant punishment has begun again.
There are many questions and life lessons here. Why do we keep restarting? How do we proceed? He has to keep going to keep going, says Molina, as his streaks flash like a series of electric shocks. “Heat”, the entire first hour of his show, shows his talent. Some of Molina’s recent works have been visible, but working with the writer / director Pablo Messiez, he communicates directly with the audience, reveals his traditions, asks for a cigarette, chats with us while raising the tempo to 180bpm, “get used to the pain”, he says, happy to push that barrier.
She is a talented artist and she dances meticulously, every shape of her body is different and unique. It all comes from a strong center, an iron core – when you feel you’re going well, he says, grab your arm like you’re stopping a bus: casual, funny, high, all at the same time. At this point there is the sound of his footsteps, and the way he uses tone, tone and color is a kind of legend in itself. Molina creates a look with her body like no other dancer. In sequence it looks like a choreographer Thank you Kilian to do flamenco.
Molina said: “To dance I have to be sweaty and tired. But there is nothing tired about what he does. As soon as Molina enters the “show” part of the show, Calentamiento goes to an unknown place, five musicians appear in a neon box making silly noises (but very talented); there are changes, drama, jokes, a bunch of metal chairs, some bass beats. They say they want a show that does not end – this is two hours, there is no time, but you are with him. It’s fun, curious, strange, intelligent and always surprising to watch his dance (punk spirit, precision art). This drive to keep moving in the face of all this can be a great metaphor for life, but also a personal image of what dance is like.
