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Carmen Amaya was considered 'the greatest Flamenco dancer ever' and was the first woman to master the intricate footwork that was often reserved for the best male dancers. Here she is dancing in 1944 at around 30 years of age.
Amaya was born to an impoverished family in Barcelona in 1913. At age 4, she began accompanying her guitarist father to pubs at night, where they earned a living collecting coins thrown by the audience. She gradually worked her way up to performing in small theaters. In 1929, her name was mentioned for the first time in a local newspaper. An art critic named Sebastia Gasch wrote a review, stating:
"Suddenly, a jump! The gypsy girl danced in an indescribable manner. It was soul - pure soul - feeling made flesh. The floorboards vibrated with unprecedented brutality and incredible precision. La Capitana was a product of nature, like all gypsies, born to dance before school and academy. The viewer was promptly subjugated, upset, and dominated by La Capitana's face, fierce hip movements, bravery in pirouettes, and the force of her turns, executed with astonishing accuracy. The raging battery of her heels and the unsteady play of her arms, now arousing, exciting, then collapsing, surrendering, and gently moving, are still recorded in our memories like indelible plaques. What drew our eyes to her dance was her nerve, which twisted her into dramatic contortions, her blood, her violence, her wild impetuosity as a caste dancer."
Her fame continued to grow, and she soon mingled with celebrities in Hollywood. In 1941, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and even had the opportunity to meet Franklin D. Roosevelt, who invited her to dance at the White House. She passed away in 1963 at the age of 50 due to kidney failure.
I was wrong to think weaker growth, falling inflation, low wages growth & rising unemployment would prevent yet further hikes from the RBA.
The RBA reckons inflation will not be in the middle of its target banks for 3 years - it should have hiked 50+bps if so
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