Antonia Mercé, “LaArgentina”
Author: Ninotchka Bennahum
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0819575577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Antonia Mercé, stage-named La Argentina, was the most celebrated Spanish dancer of the early 20th century. Her intensive musical and theatrical collaborations with members of the Spanish vanguard -- Manuel de Falla, Frederico García Lorca, Enrique Granados, Néstor de la Torre, Joaquín Nín, and with renowned Andalusian Gypsy dancers -- reflect her importance as an artistic symbol for contemporary Spain and its cultural history. When she died in 1936, newspapers around the world mourned the passing of the "Flamenco Pavlova."
