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Tal y Cual presented its sixth and final show of Cuerdas y Tacon (Spanish for strings and heels) at the IIC on Wednesday evening, and the house was full by the time the performers — Judith Martinez and Christopher Perez — took the stage. Those who came in late packed into a room on the first floor to catch the action on closed-circuit TV. And even there, the seats were taken in minutes.
From the first piece itself, Martinez and Perez created an atmosphere of intimacy that extended from the stage and wrapped the audience. The sensationalism that marks modern-day flamenco performances was missing; the stage was bare, occupied only by the two performers — him playing the guitar and her singing and dancing. Dressed in ruffled skirts and dresses, Martinez’s graceful footwork and hand movements depicted everything from imprisonment and honour debts to the peppy mood of the harvest dance Garrotin. But it was her haunting voice that made the audience demand an encore of Columbiana, a song created and sung at the beginning of the 20th century. Perez’s solo guitar pieces, Fandango and Solea, also cast a soulful spell on the audience. In the end, even the folks who were glued to the screen could not resist from clapping.
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