Company

In the 1940s, when Rosario and Antonio lived and worked in the United States, the couple appeared in several Hollywood musicals. One of these was Hollywood Canteen (1944), written to boost the morale of soldiers fighting in the Second World War. In the film we hear an orchestral adaptation of El Vito, a type of traditional Andalusian music – and the dance number that accompanies it gives an insight into the shows that the couple toured America with: a rapid intertwining of spins and taps that prized spectacle over technique. Rubén Olmo has chosen this dance as a nod to Antonio Ruiz Soler’s cinematographic side, which would continue in Spain with his career as a leading actor.