Press

“When she is on stage, she turns it into a garden of flamenco sentiments. The air of her soleá is beginning to captivate everyone, to the extent that she will have the honour of dancing at the well-known New York City Center this very week, at the end of January. A grand definition of this form, a sound concept of flamenco, and a large dosis of humility for a bailaora with a great future like Rocío Molina”.

Jacinto González – www.aireflamenco.com

“That sensation that rarely overcomes us after having seen something so significant”.

 “Rocío Molina is a young exceptionally talented and intelligent bailaora, whose ‘El eterno retorno’, premiered during the Málaga in Flamenco Festival, has staked her claim with imagination and dedication, and must now be judged, as harsh as that sounds. Let’s take a step back in time… Slightly over a year ago, during the prestigious competition held at La Unión, this little lady left more than one spectator speechless with her original style and talent, but she did not make the finals. Only five months later she figured in the recitals series of the USA Festival with some of the leading names in flamenco such as Sara Baras, Eva Yerbabuena, Enrique Morente, Tomatito, Gerardo Núñez, Belén Maya and others. Two months later, at the Jerez Festival in March of this year (2005), she debuted with a small group, she alone tackling a different program of long dances, equally long batas de cola and with such a high standard that she caused a sensation in the Company’s theatre: many of us left with that sensation that rarely overcomes us after having seen something so significant”.

Estela Zatania – September 2005

http://www.deflamenco.com/actuaciones/mef/index3.jsp

“At only 21, Rocío Molina has become one of the most important flamenco dancers of the moment. Despite her youth, she has embarked on a stunning career, with production like ‘Entre paredes’ and ‘El eterno retorno’, and her role in the ‘Los cuatro elementos’, programmed at some of the most important flamenco festivals. She was already dancing on stage at age three, and she has not taken off her shoes since then. This young artist from Málaga knows that this is a complicated world and nothing can be achieved without hard work. So, for the moment, she merely aims to enjoy being on stage and to keep leading in the same direction that has brought her such success thus far. Her goal is to lose herself in that world of sensations that makes her totally free as she dances”.

Carlos Sánchez. Seville, January 2006

Flamenco World

http://www.flamenco-world.com/artists/rocio_molina/emolin19012006-1.htm

Dance in its original state

Youthfulness and audacity were seen last night at the Villamaría Theatre in the form of Rocío Molina from Málaga. With Almario, the bailaora presented a simple offering, in which she wound up almost naked in body and soul on stage, dancing for pure pleasure to the sound of a musical fantasy. Tanguillos, tarantos, seguiriya, garrotín, bamberas and mentiras… José Valencia and Antonio Campos are such excellent singers!

She didn’t leave the stage during the hour-and-a-quarter the show lasted and from the moment she looked in the mirror and decided to ‘Be herself’ to illustrate her production, the dancer has said what she really thinks. She projected her contemporary dance and charismatically described how it was done before.

The charm and wit with which she tackled the tanguillos from last century emphasised her talent. And while she didn’t rummage through the past as much in the bamberas, she soon surprised all and sundry with some very original bulerías of the highest quality. Here, Valencia pushed up his sleeves, dried his sweat and projected several notes that can still be heard echoing throughout Jerez.

But Molina, whose technique is enviable, had a more brilliant and risky idea which helped the work make sense: she took off her dress, dancing her zapateado void of any other decoration: no castanets, fans, train, frilled frock… It was all sundry to the dancer, all she needed was a leotard and she danced until she was barefoot and her movements almost completely naked.

Time and a career ahead, but she left it clear that she is much more than just a promising lucky young dancer, and to show this, last night she stripped down to tell the audience this is the real me and this is the dance that gives me life; unadorned, just her”.

David Fernández – February 2007

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