Blanca del Rey - Mantón

Blanca Ávila Moreno, Blanca del Rey (Córdoba, 1949). Dancer
She is one of the most evident cases of a performer linked to a tablao for practically her whole career, in this case, El Corral de la Morería, whose owner she is married to. She is also an absolute defender of the tablao as a privileged setting for jondo expression: "Because I maintain it is where the performer is trained. None of that repeating things in front of a mirror: the impulse is what makes it. I have the experience of both, and I say the tablao is much more difficult than the theater. Here there is no silence unless you provoke it. In the theater, silence is an obligation; on the tablao it is a devotion you achieve or not". She was originally called La Platera, because she lived in La Plata street in Cordoba. Shortly after, when not more than 14 years old, she went to work in Madrid, and was immediately hired by Manuel del Rey at El Corral de la Morería. Five years later they married and thus La Platera became Blanca del Rey. Since then, except for obligatory breaks due to maternity and other family reasons, El Corral has been Blanca's reference point, the place where she has expressed her art as a great, serious, coherent dancer. In recent years, she has set up shows from time to time, touring different countries and cities in Spain, but she always returns to El Corral. She is an imaginative dancer, who contributes what an interesting factor of personal creation to everything she does. Her dance is full of her own development, an exquisite taste and elegance. Among them, there is the Soleá del mantón, her greatest artistic creation, steeped in originality and beauty; her hands move the shawl in harmony with her body as if it had a life of its own, creating an iconography and aesthetic that are always surprising.

[@Carambanoazul]

Increíble. Es el arte y el flamenco puro, y digo puro porque quizás no será un estilo gitano tradicional, pero es flamenco de verdad, salido del alma, que es lo que lo hace puro, y es el arte en estado excelso. Gracias por compartirlo.

[@oceanshigh_lovestodance8970]

She is ABSOLUTAMENTE Amazing!!!!! Quisiera yo bailar asi algun dia!!!! Bravo!!!!

[@solea9494]

oceanshigh_lovestodance bailar igual que ella ? O saber bailar solea por buleria

[@oceanshigh_lovestodance8970]

Bailar como ella y ese manton. Es espectacular!

[@annalouisepaul]

Beautiful and elegant. Ole maestra!!

[@joshuajohnson2216]

This video is from 1995 in Belgium.