ONE ON ONE

 

A man's dance, a woman's dance, Seville or Jerez, we're forced to follow advice about 50-50 chances. This amazing flamenco dancer from Seville is the sister of Israel Galván, one of today's most revolutionary dancers. Pastora has the air of a big-name dancer of fine flamenco stock. Joaquín Grilo, a native of Jerez who has honed his skills in Madrid, will join her on stage. This is a once in a lifetime luxury in this generation's history.

DANCES

SHOW PRESENTED BY THE SEVILLE CITY COUNCIL'S FLAMENCO BIENNIAL

... "alegrías" full of strength and temperament, sensuality and sweetness... sensuality and playfulness, with influence from Triana and the interpretive personality of her brother Israel... Pastora personifies one of the most interesting and promising offers in flamenco dancing today...

Diario de Cádiz. Julio Vega

... this new Pastora Galván has that one gift that is so nearly impossible: she is unique... "bulerías" that look like something off Titi de Triana's nightstand. Barefoot, with an ample bottom, fresh, and just a little bit vulgar: a real beast... Then, in the "seguiriya" she becomes sophisticated and sharp, giving it steps, moves and a structure unlike anything ever seen before... The white dress reflects a joyful blinding light "por alegrías", flying around it with "redaños" and an innovative classicism...

Flamenco World. Silvia Calado

... Her craft and dedication are so precise as to allow unthinkable licenses... The most striking of which is the vertigo, the speed she gives her compositions without losing her composure, without losing the "compás" (rhythm), without losing aesthetic beauty, without losing as much as a bobby pin....

Granada Hoy. Jorge Fdez.Bustos

... A great flamenco dancer with a great many assets, alternately classic and conventional, cutting edge and surreal, a beauty among the beautiful...

Deflamenco.com. Estela Ztania

 

PERSONAL LEGEND

They say every man's real homeland is in his childhood. Many images, feelings and drives have invaded us ever since we were children. Artists look for inspiration in their memories and invariably bring to mind a certain figure: woman.

As a child, my mother was my homeland. She taught me to fight and gave me the strength to be unconventional, to refuse to surrender in the face of the injustice of the poverty that surrounded us. Her justice always gave me strength, it unleashed a huge flood of energy in me, and, ever since I began my career, it accompanies me whenever I dance.

Now that I am grown up, women are still the driving force behind the sensitivity I must necessarily exercise in order to keep going, in order to fight against every sort of manipulation of the artist and his art, in order to make that return trip that allows us to exteriorize our passions and our most comprehensive and innocent dreams.