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Spanish dancing sensation Joaquin Cortes plays his first major dramatic role in this story about a musician who is struggling to put personal misfortune behind him. Andres (Cortes) is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero (Antonio Carmona), a member of his band. As Andres tries to reacclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia (Laetitia Casta) is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro (Manuel de Blas) is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family. Word on the street has it that members of the Junco Family killed Romero while he was defending Andres in a fight; Don Manuel is also the father of Lucia, as well as Lola (Marta Belaustegui), the wife of another of Andres' bandmates, El Peque (Gines Garcia Millan), who wants Andres to put his problems behind him and get back on the road. Andres is eager to get his career going again, but he discovers Chino (Jose Manuel Lorenzo), a cop on the take, has been following him, with record company bigwig Manfredi (Juan Fernandez) paying him to dig up dirt on the flamenco. As well as introducing Joaquin Cortes, Gitano features French supermodel Laetitia Casta in her second acting role; her voice was dubbed into Spanish by actress Ana Fernandez.
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Consejo FlamencoExport
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Joaquín Cortés releases a DVD featuring the recording of the performance that took place in June 2002 in the Royal Albert Hall in London, under the direction of Russell Thomas, who has worked for great figures like the Icelandic singer Björk.
'Live' is a show wherein music and cante take center stage. Joaquín Cortés has conceived the work as a journey through the forms of flamenco, presenting himself to the audience on his own, like a bullfighter facing the bull head-on. The dancer from Córdoba fearlessly takes on the challenge, interpreting the music with his dance, with elegance and feeling. As in Soul, the artist takes on mixtures and fusion, and once again the full gamut of references that this implies.
With an impeccable production, which reveals details that escape spectators in the auditorium, in almost two hours this musical video-recording collects the entire show, as well as an interview with the bailaor (with sub-titles in English) in which he talks of his influences, his understanding of flamenco dancing, his technique and style… Furthermore, there are two additional annexes: a photograph album and takes from the rehearsals.
FlamencoExport's Comment
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Joaquin Cortés is broadening the base of flamenco dance in the world, the good ambassadors of Spain.
Cortes' costumes have always been designed by Giorgio Armani, with whom he has had a cooperation arrangement for nine years. "I have mixed different forms of music and dance in my shows, but my style is still firmly rooted in the flamenco traditions. There aren't so many rules as with classical dance, and it's not so technical. For Gypsy people, it is in the blood and is a way of life!

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