ENI9MA: The legend of Félix

ENI9GMA: The legend of Félix A story of appropriation, glamour and madness Documentary about Félix Fernández García, flamenco dancer from Seville hired by Diaghilev in 1917 to teach and dance flamenco for the Ballets Russes in the process of creation of The Three-Cornered Hat ballet in collaboration with choreographer Lèonide Massine, composer Manuel de Falla and Pablo Picasso. After traveling through Spain and Portugal for months, in the summer of 1918, his contract was modified to take him on tour to London with the company in spite of the on going world war. In May 1919, Félix learned he was no longer going to perform the leading role of the Spanish ballet he was hired to collaborate in, and a few weeks before the premiere, which was a great success, Félix was arrested, locked in a mental hospital, declared dead in Spain while alive, and abandoned in the asylum in England, where he died two decades later, during World War II.
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