Enjoy this sneak peek into tech rehearsal for DUAL with flamenco dancer, Mercedes Ruiz:
In the clip above, Mercedes dances to the guitar of Manuel Morao, a prominent guitarist from Jerez de la Frontera whose company she danced with when she was just six years old!
At the young age of six, Mercedes toured with his company across Europe and to the United States:
“When I was six I joined Manuel Morao’s company… We were all over Europe. And we were in New York too…really there I danced and I had fun, but I treated it like a game. A girl who wanted to dance for fun. And later when I was twelve or thirteen I said that I seriously wanted to do this professionally.”
(See a picture of her as a little girl with the company here.)
Watch Mercedes perform this whole piece this Saturday, July 20th at The Old Church in Portland.
This is one of many numbers she dances in DUAL, a collaboration with her equally talented husband, Santiago Lara on flamenco guitar.
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