They call it Freestyle Heel Work to Music.
In character class, the girls wore heels, so that they could execute the delicate heel work, and full skirts.
Farruco, now tall but still full of teenage exuberance, clutched his aqua suit and spiraled into impressive percussive heel work.
In his best-known work, "El Cortijo," Mr. Greco used heel work, or zapateados, to suggest the rhythm of horsemen on open plains.
"Now a bit stout, sometimes quaint looking, he can still burst into a blazing display of dynamic heel work," Anna Kisselgoff, dance critic of The Times, wrote in 1990.
The stage was his home and the Gypsy spirit was in him as he married the extraordinary precision of his heel work with a charming defiance.
Carmen Vega, Francisco Carrasco, David Perez and José Galán do better in this respect, and Mr. Vargas finally builds the shifting rhythms in his tacaneo, or stamping heel work, to a strong climax.
The dust flew off the floorboards as Farruquito's attack speeded up his powerful heel work in the "Alegrias," the solo he substituted for a previously announced "Taranto".
All this is deliberate, a background for the skillfully dissolving patterns for five women and two men (including the long-haired standout Raúl Fernández), who make way for Ms. Baras's precise rhythms in her heel work, with its staccato attack in the solos, especially in her brilliant "Farruca".
