© Uwe Enrich Sadler's Wells' fourth annual Flamenco Festival London. Ballet.co Magazine coverage: March 2007 April 2007 Carmen Cortes company reviews more Carole Edrich reviews Discuss this review (Open for at least 6 months)

Every individual on the stage was a talented musician and performer in their own right. It’s difficult to pick examples from an evening so packed with excellence. Ángel Sánchez and Pablo Martín played an amusing duet with Sánchez using the bass as a percussion instrument at the same time that Martín played. Sánchez (also known as Cepillo) played a great cajón and used the heel of his trainers to change its tone. Jesús Méndez’s voice was sonorous and rich. Gerardo Nuńez is a wonderful guitarist, great innovator and musical director whose performance amply demonstrated why he has been awarded so many prizes for his music. Cortés danced with fiery discipline, exuberant sophistication and a wonderful sense of humour. Her work was not an extra or accompaniment to the music but an intrinsic part of the greater whole.
 

Emphatically proven by a near-unanimous standing ovation the production engulfed the boundaries of the art of flamenco, guitar and Latin jazz. A seamless, stunning, spellbinding night this entertaining, innovative and amusing performance was beautifully produced and a pleasure to experience. Far more than the sum of its parts, I only wish I could see it again.