Reviews about Maria Serrano and her productions:

About Maria Serrano:
Press reviews on Maria Serrano: “Maria Serrano is an all-present dancer who knows the secrets of flamenco.” – El Pais/Spain. *** She overwhelmed the audience at the completely sold-out Beethoven hall with the power and vitality of her dancing.” – Stuttgarter Nachrichten/Germany. *** “The queen of flamenco.” – Die Welt/Germany. “A volcanic phenomenon.” – Berliner Morgenpost/Germany. *** “The demon of the dance.” – Stuttgarter Nachrichten /Germany. “Maria Serrano – the voodoo queen of flamenco.” – News, Vienna/Austria. “Maria Serrano herself is an exceptional figure.” – Wiesbadener Tagblatt/Germany.***”A furioso of movements” – Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten /Germany. “Maria Serrano celebrates flamenco at its best,” – Petra/Germany. “Maria Serrano made ice melt.” – Neue Ruhrzeitung/Germany. “Maria Serrano dances with an elementary passion and power, her exploding crescendi are captivating and overwhelming.” – Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung/Germany***”Maria Serrano dances with utmost abandon and expression.” – Berliner Kurier/Germany***”The Serrano really has got oomph”. – Der Kurier, Vienna/Austria – “She´s without any doubt a exceptional figure” – Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten/Germany***Every step is carefully executed, each movement an absolute force, each dance sequence created tremendous fascination for the audience.” – Reutlicher Nachrichten/Germany.

about Intuición Flamenca:
“It’s an evening with striking lots of subtile nuances, which open us the eyes within the intense dialogue of the Serrano sisters’ eyes for the fine details of this dance. Even when they dance unison with each other Maria and Alba find spaces for their very personal expressions. You can see the fact that the big sister is an experienced stage animal in each of her gestures: she has the size to reduce her movements to the absolutely essential. While the younger, celebrates with a lot of elegance and style this typical flamenco hand turns, the ´Floreos´. Marias´s movements seem to come from deep inside, while Alba appears more distant apparently cooler, the one always lightly bent forwards, deeply rooted and connected to the elements, the other one dances smooth and elegant – and yet the two operate in the most beautiful synchronicity. ” (Stuttgarter Nachrichten/Germany)
“The face of this women reflects pride, every muscle of her body radiates power and energy. And so even the simple rising from a chair becomes art. At least if the Spanish flamenco dancer Maria Serrano celebrates it. … The speed is as impressive as the precision, when Maria and Alba Serrano alternate in furious dance duels and find together in precise duets, driven by the sound of the four musicians. “(Stuttgarter Zeitung/Germany)
“Where Maria Serrano exudes her passion pure and direct, Alba Serrano lets it bubble long time under the surface, before you finally can have a look behind the proud facade. Especially the duos of the sisters, where they play with parallels and reflections, with all this precise rhythmic compatibility and all this intuition life from this fascinating contrast, which exposes the whole range and diversity of this traditional Spanish dance style, “(Reutlinger General Anzeiger/Germany)

about the production FlamenTango:
“Her art suspended by something magical, Maria Serrano is an explosive phenomenon for Andre Heller. The production presented us with a mixture of volcanic flamenco combined with a fiery tango danced by Milton and Romina. Their passion becomes interwoven into a magical fusion. The sensuous tango joins with acrobatic flamenco into an act of dramatic desperation. Serrano demonstrates total determination with her personal style of flamenco. Each movement of her hands illustrates the expression of pure art, each turn shows the sensuous movement of her hips pulling the earth right out from under our feet, each of her small, rapid steps executed in perfect time transports the audience into the realm of another world”. (Aachener Zeitung/Germany)
“The two dances might appear to have similarities, but are actually completely different. Over the course of the performance, the temperamental, rapid dance steps of flamenco join with the fluid, forceful elegance of the tango and metamorphose into something excitingly new. Maria Serrano is an undisputed expert at her art. Each step is perfect; each movement of her arms is a pure expressive force. Together with the best dancers of her company, they develop a group vision that is bold, technically challenging and has superb sensuality. Long applause and “Bravos” for an evening of a first class dance performance”. (HNA Kassel/Germany)
“ An Argentinean tango couple searches for their Spanish roots. Tango and Flamenco find one another in the marvelous hands of Argentineans, Romina Godoy and Milton Homann, and brilliant flamenco dancer Jonathan Sanchez and Maria Serrano. Accompanied by five musicians, two singers, an Argentinean bandoneon and a Spanish guitar, the two styles of music blended harmoniously, yet retained their own, unique sense of character. The audience witnessed the contrast of traditional vs. contemporary dance. The company began with the classical flamenco style of the bata de cola and the fedora hat of tango; then the women emerge in modern, fitted dresses and the men sport contemporary t-shirts. The performers erupted into a „Jam Session‟ of admiration and exciting competition with the tango and flamenco dancers presenting their sensuous craft. The last part of the performance featured the Spanish and Argentinean dancer blending their styles into extraordinary, new choreography”. (Cannstatter Zeitung/Germany)
“The audience witnesses the dynamic encounter of the two styles. Maria Serrano used flamenco to bewitch tango dancer Milton Homann, then Romina Godoy followed suit with the two flamenco dancers. Each of the dancers demonstrated their mastery of dance culminating in the passionate blending of the dances accompanied by six distinguish musicians. The dynamic change of the Tango and Flamenco, subtlety and without any separation, they transform one another which completes the name of the performance.”
(Stuttgarter Zeitung/Germany)
“There is tremendous contrast during the evening as the dancers move within different constellations working by themselves, then with others. First the crowd witnesses the confrontation between the classical and proud Tango vs. the dramatic energy of Flamenco. Although there is no direct contact between the two styles, both share fiery passion. The audience can’t get enough of Maria Serrano’s forceful energy. Her innovative, demanding choreography is always captivating. There is no foot step too fast, nothing too difficult for her to attempt. The audience can’t help themselves but to errupt into thunderous applause in response to her dynamic style. Finally there is the sensuous blending of the Tango and Flamenco where the dancers give us the pleasures of the show that one can only describe as a dramatic journey between melancholy and ecstasy”. (Badische Neueste Nachrichten/Germany)
“The mixture of the two dances creates a fusion… every step is carefully executed, each movement an absolute force, each dance sequence created tremendous fascination for the audience… the overall experience included seven talented musicians that are on stage night after night. The flamenco & tango couples meet; they blend their styles together and create a totally new dance arrangement combining the lustful tango with the temperament of flamenco creating something utterly new”. (Reutlinger Nachrichten/Germany) “The raw, emotional force of Maria Serrano and company causes the audience to erupt into thundering applause. The explosive mixture of flamenco and tango aptly named “flamentango” is Maria‟s newest artistic undertaking. Flamenco & tango find one another and become a fusion….. flamenco represented by Maria Serrano and Jonathan Sanchez. Like proud bullfighters, they create a spell with their powerful legs and rapid “staccato” footwork. Full of vibrant energy and beauty, Maria Serrano offered the audience absolute passion during her volcanic solo. She was accompanied by the explosive duende of Ismael Perez on the piano, two guitars, one cajon, a bass and two singers who transformed traditional flamenco with their fusion of jazz, salsa and pop.During the next segment, the bandoneon introduced the feverish power of tango.  Romina Godoy and Milton Homann celebrate the sensousness of the tango with high heels and her split skirt. Their aggressive, passionate and erotic dancing demonstrating acrobatic elegance. They are the world‟s most seductive duo. As an Argentinean poet once wrote: “The tango is a sadness that let‟s men dance”. (Südwestpresse/Germany)

about Entre Flamencos:
“Entre Flamencos” she dances, a woman alone among men. The temperament boils over. The dancing is impulsive, exuberant, fundamental and although completely synchronic, still extremely individual – never in perfect unison : each dancer, solo…. The Ensemble bubbles with the joys of life…..Maria Serrano points the way. She literally has the trousers on, a woman dictates among men. …She throws à la Buleria on stage. In tight, modern clothes, she refrains from various skirt effects. He entire body, a bundle of energy.” – ANDA – Journal for Flamenco.****
“Maria Serrano literally dances on a volcano, in fact she is a dancing volcano and pride and passion pour over the crowded rows of spectators like lava. The encounter of the sexes whips up to an erotic Duell d’amour…. In effervescent solos, the dancers hurl their passion at the feet of the Señora and to their public.” – Schwäbische Post (Germany) ***
“Without doubt, Maria Serrano is an impressive sight. Full of perfection and elegance and with a passion which radiates from both her body and her face. Whether emphatically slow or dazzlingly fast, her movements are precise and extremely expressive, right down to the tips of her fingers….. Entre Flamencos starts off as modern and rather cool before it increases during the course of the evening to an ecstatic Flamenco Festival.” – Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) *** No exaggerated stories, no electronic droning music but a simple, impressive Show. The greater part of the danced show, which includes long, purely musical segments consists of rigorous, extreme choreographic group scenes, in which the dancers move – almost like Riverdance – as a perfect synchrony of a clattering Ensemble…… Then at the very end, the Serrano finally does put on a Flamenco dress and dances a solo which has yet to find its equal. These are good people and this Flamenco Revue will cause a sensation.” - Stuttgarter Zeitung.(Germany) ***
“Gangster outfit with black trouser-suit and wide-brim hat presented by the Serrano and sixr dancers. A gentle start not yet revealing the flamenco fireworks that followed…. One and a half hours of flamenco in perfection, what a thrill! This was a flamenco way of life danced to the full on the stage.” – Reutlinger Generalanzeiger (Germany) ***
“Equality of rank is and remains the theme of the evening. Amazingly modern for flamenco where males and females normally perform as bipolar forces and would often serve fixed clichés…. “Entre flamencos” gives Spanish dance the stuff for progression. The company demonstrates that flamenco can be danced even on stools holding up the machismo attitude to the audience’s ridicule.” - Stuttgarter Nachrichten (Germany) ***

about RITMO Flamenco-Cubano:
“More triumphant is hardly conceivable“ – Stuttgarter Zeitung (Germany)
„Maria Serrano and those Cubans emit sparkling enthusiasm.” El País (Spain)
“RITMO takes the shine out of anything that has so far been trying to catch the audience through a flamenco show. – Frankfurter Neue Presse (Germany)
“No time to recover your breath during those 90 minutes of RITMO.” – ABC (Spain)
“The audience applauded at the end like crazy.” – Diario de Sevilla (Spain)
“RITMO is a furious audience-catching show.” – Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)
“The fusion experiment brings about a raging encounter of two dancing nations thanks to breath-taking techniques and unchained abandon.” – Nürnberger Nachrichten (Germany) “Breath-taking to see how the stage blends sensuousness with pride, how
hammering feet drown in a whirl of movements.” – Die Welt (Germany)
“A brightly coloured dancing review turned the concert hall into a roaring musical hall…..Technical perfection, full of suspense and seductive eroticism.” – Badische Neueste Nachrichten (Germany) “With her dance show Maria Serrano created a devotion to rhythm…..A thrill for eyes and ears.” – Generalanzeiger Bonn (Germany)