Eduardo Serrano has left us, for the art “El Güito”

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Yesterday, January 8, the dance master passed away at the age of 82 Eduardo Serrano, for Art The Güito. A Madrilenian from El Rastro, born in 1942, he earned his stage name for his dark complexion and small size, like a güito. He left an indelible mark of his mastery in the thousands of hours of teaching at the legendary Madrid school on Calle Love of God, today on the upper floors of the Antón Martín Market, run by his close friend and companion of many years Joaquin Sanjuan.

She began to take her first steps in dance at the Madrid academy of Antonio Marin, where another large one that disappeared a few days ago was also formed, the chungaBut her career took off when she joined the Ballet of the great teacher Pilar Lopez with fourteen years!, together with Mario Maya, Antonio Gades and Farruco (that's nothing). Eduardo always considered the sister of the little argentinian as his teacher, who according to him taught him everything that made him become a great dancer flamencoWith it he won the award for best dancer of the season in 1959 at the Theatre of Nations in Paris.

A true Madrilenian, I had the good fortune to meet him and chat with him on several occasions, always at the bar. Patas HouseBut the day that I was a sworn judge of the Cordoba Competition, we had lunch with Mario Maya, Eduardo, Jose Manuel Gamboa and server in the The Blason Restaurant from Cordoba (El Sablon, according to javier latorre), where I was able to enjoy a long, excited after-dinner conversation, during which the two teachers told each other anecdotes about Doña Pilar’s ​​ballet, as they referred to their teacher (she referred to them as “my children”). Güito boasted of arriving at the theatre five minutes before the performance while Mario needed to warm up for an hour and a half, to which the Cordoban teacher replied sarcastically: “Come on, Güito, you’ve been doing the same soleá for thirty years.” To which Eduardo replied: “I’ve changed some steps.” Hahaha. I still crack up every time I remember that unforgettable moment.

Between 1971 and 1975 he formed the Madrid Trio along with Mario Maya and Carmen Mora. That remains for history. buleria por soleá that Mario and he dance close to each other. Gades incorporated him into the cast of the National Ballet when he created it in 1978, hence Güito appears in the film Saura Blood Wedding.

His most emblematic choreography that has gone down in history is none other than his very personal dance solea with music Emilio de Diego, the guitarist with more than twenty years of experience alongside Antonio Gades. The slowness with which he carries the air has forever marked a way of measuring that some even call “soleá de Madrid”.

The illustration for this brief obituary consists of sketches drawn by the versatile French artist Jean Cocteau When Eduardo was part of the company of Manolo Caracol in Malaga, and which have been preserved thanks to the fact that Güito's mother put them in a safe place.

The dance flamenco of man loses one of its most distinguished figures, with him a glorious stage of dance closes, unrepeatable. Thanks to Gamboa today we can enjoy reading his life, which he masterfully captured in the book El Güito The head of the flamenco! Facts and deeds of the masterMay this true great of dance rest in peace. flamenco of all time.