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Gypsy Heart [Import]

Omayra Amaya (Actor), Jocelyn M. Ajami (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
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3.0 out of 5 stars Tantalizing Dec 10 2002
By Ruth Edlund
Format:VHS Tape
This fifty-minute tape contains substantial footage, all very short segments, of Omayra Amaya, who is a young woman with her own flamenco dance company in Boston. The clips are from class and performance. It contains a few precious black-and-white glimpses of Omayra's great-aunt, the immortal Carmen Amaya, considered by some the greatest flamenco dancer of all time, in performance.

Omayra and other family members discuss natural dancers versus classroom dancers, tradition versus experimentation, and other topics of interest to anyone studying any folk dance tradition.

A film of this length that tries to be both dance documentary and in-depth interview ends up being neither. The flashes of insight offered are tantalizing, but nothing more.

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1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment Nov 10 2002
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
I thought I was purchasing a "dance" tape but ended up with a "life story" tape.
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2.0 out of 5 stars She can dance July 11 2002
By operamaryc
Format:VHS Tape
This is short but mildly entertaining because Miss Amaya can dance and they at least film some of it. Most of her numbers are not complete presentations, however. She does leave you wanting to see more of her dancing. I'm still looking for a really good tape of Flamenco and wishing the National Ballet of Spain had some of their performances on video. The other tape, "Flamenco" is worse than this one. So far, the VHS "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" and the Spanish film of "Carmen" set in a dance studio have the best examples of Flamenco dancing I've seen on video.
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