“Flamenco dancer” Lola Greco, winner of the 2009 National Dance Prize. 

The Madrilenian artist finally possesses the top award given in Spain to bailaores and dancers. The jury explains it has awarded her the 2009 National Dance Prize “for her charisma and great creative talent upon tackling the performance of every line of Spanish dance”.

And that includes flamenco. As she sentenced in her show ‘Deóperaflamenco’, which she presented at Festival de Jerez 2008 together with her sister Carmela, both the classical and the jondo are “my two passions”.

And she might just as easily take part in a Dance Stars Gala together with Sylvie Guillem and Maya Plisetskaya, as collaborate with Antonio Canales in ‘Carmen, Carmela’ or with Antonio el Pipa in ‘Pasión y Ley’. That has historically been the artistic dichotomy of her family, begun by her father José Greco, in that the lyrical and the jondo are two sides of the same coin.

In this award, with 30,000 euros in prize money from the Ministry of Culture, she has been preceded over the past few years by bailaores such as Javier Barón, Manuela Carrasco and Sara Baras, and dancers like Aída Gómez, Lucía Lacarra and Ángel Corella, among others.

Date: 14/12/2009

Research: hojjat kalantari

Source: flamenco world