They have many, many others, of course, but I think I've given them a fair showing. In this last video I am really introducing a new artist, their fellow countrywoman, Selene Munoz.
Selene is half-Danish and half-Spanish, as her surname suggests. She started dancing at age nine and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Dance in Madrid. As will become apparent, she also studied flamenco while in Spain, developing a fusion of both traditional and contemporary versions of that style.
In fact, she IS this video: it's a poignant and oftentimes painful depiction of the unfortunate and unconscious internalization of oppression that women face the world over. There's a chilling distinction made between the external/internal woman in this performance. It gave me pause for thought about how such external oppression becomes personal repression. And of the incapacity of men to see women for who they really are.
At least that's my take on it all. But I'm saying too much. Better simply to watch Selene. The song is entitled, "A Room In Paris."
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