Manuela Carrasco

Manuela Carrasco (* 1958 in Seville ) is a Spanish flamenco dancer.

Life and artistic career

Manuela Carrasco is the daughter of a family of flamenco artists. Her father is the dancer José Carrasco, known as El Sordo . At the age of eleven, she made her first appearance in La Cochera , one of the tablaos of Seville, the cabaret in which flamenco performances are performed every evening. When she was thirteen, she toured Europe. Her career as a soloist began at the age of sixteen at Tablao Los Canasteros , where she attracted public and critical attention.

At the age of 18 she was awarded the Pastora Imperio Prize for her performance at the national flamenco competition in Cordoba . In 1976 she won the international price for dance art in San Remo, Italy .

In her long career she has appeared in numerous performances, including:

• Gitano together with Camarón de la Isla , Pansequito and Lebrijano ;
• Ayer, hoy y mañana del flamenco
• Flamenco puro 1985 in North America, together with Fernanda de Utrera , El Farruco and El Chocolate ;
• … Y Sevilla 1992 at the Flamenco Biennale of Seville.

In 1995 she appeared with a Soleá in Carlos Saura's film Flamenco , accompanied by the voice of José Mercé . She feels particularly connected to this form of flamenco:

“La tengo que hacer siempre porque es mi palo, sin la soleá no sería yo. Es con lo que realmente me siento y me identifico. La soleá soy yo. "

“I have to dance it again and again because it's my Palo , without the Soleá I wouldn't be me. I really feel myself in her, I identify with her. I am the Soleá. "

- Manuela Carrasco

At the head of her own company she staged , among other things:

• La Diosa
• Así baila Seville
• Jondo Adonai

In the Biennial of Seville in 2002, she presented, together with El Chocolate and Antonia La Negra , Esencias . Two years later she appeared with a premiere at this biennial: the play Tronío . With Un sorbito de lo sublime , she appeared at the Jerez Festival and the Caja Madrid and Jueves Flamencos de Sevilla festivals, among others .

Even today, 2015, Manuela Carrasco is still active as a dancer. At the festival Fire of Pamplona in August 2015 she danced together with Antonio Canales .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Flamenco - Manuela Carrasco. In: andalucia.com. Accessed August 30, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Biografía Manuela Carrasco. (No longer available online.) In: flamencofestival.org. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; Retrieved September 2, 2015 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Margot Molina: “La soleá soy yo”. La bailaora Manuela Carrasco regresa al Teatro Lope de Sevilla con 'Suspiros flamencos'. In: El País . March 12, 2014, accessed September 2, 2015 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Ángeles Castellano: El Festival Caja Madrid de flamenco evoca a Morente. In: El País. February 2, 2011, accessed September 2, 2015 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ Antonio Parra: El baile es cosa de dos. In: El País. Retrieved August 29, 2015 (Spanish). 

Web links

• Manuela Carrasco por soleá. (Video) (1990). In: YouTube . November 19, 2012, Retrieved September 3, 2015 (Spanish, broadcast on September 10, 1990, Canal Sur ). 
• Baile Manuela Carrasco. (Video) Alegrias, Solea, Bulerias. In: YouTube. March 27, 2015, accessed September 2, 2015 (Spanish, guitars: Diego and Joaquin Amador, vocals: Diego Camacho El Boqueron ). 
• MANUELA CARRASCO "Naturaleza Gitana, Gitana Morena". (Video) In: YouTube. March 22, 2015, accessed on August 30, 2015 (Spanish, recorded at the Flamenco de Jerez Festival on February 21, 2015).