Bailes Espanoles (With Antonia Martinez, Luis Montero, Carmen Dominguez, and More)

New York: Arthur Shafman Int'l Ltd. Very Good+. 1972. 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized Theatre program for he 1971-72 season. The program is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have some beginning rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. Entertainers Include: Antonia Martinez, Luis Montero, Carmen Dominguez, Manolo Rivera, Rosa Lugo, Ana Mari, Victor Romero, Francisco Espinosa, Antonio de Alcala, Carlos Pucherete, and under the musical direction of Silvio Masciarelli. Laid-in is a smaller tri-fold program from the Lindy Opera House (Los Angeles) featuring the show. "Just as Billy Elliot discovered his love of dance on the way to his boxing lesson, José Molina Quijada, born in Madrid on November 19, 1936, was enrolled in a boxing school which shared space with Spanish dancers. In 1945, the nine year old Molina saw Pilar López and José Greco perform and knew that dance was his future. His father, Ramón Molina, a Republican who was imprisoned for three years during the Spanish Civil War and then worked in a fish market, was adamantly opposed, but his mother, Carmen Quijada, accepted his ambition on the condition that he pay for his classes by working mornings in the fish market. For six years José earned just enough to pay for classes with Pilar Monterde in neo-Classical Spanish dance, Escuela Bolera, Ballet and Flamenco. Soledad Miralles, dancing in Madrid at the Lope de Vega Theatre, gave Molina his first break. From age sixteen to nineteen, he toured nightclubs throughout Europe and the Middle East as a Flamenco and Classical Spanish dance soloist accompanied by piano and orchestra." (from the dancer's website) .