postinero artel last Monday at the Real Maestranza de la Caballería Sevillana, with Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega and Daniel Luque with Domingo Hernández bulls, some of them five and a half years old.
Ortega was poetry overflowing in the nuanced modulation of bullfighting caressing, deaf and blind of spearing without touching, roar of crazy frenzy between humid images, in the depth of the division sun and shadow. He turned a kaleidoscope of colors, rhythm and magic, inherited from the bullfighters of yesterday – Curro Romero, Rafael de Paula and Morante himself – who contemplated it and did not believe it.
Juan Ortega dominated a bull that looked noble; apparently, the ideal bull. The reality is that he was able to handle the bull and from his muleta a noble bull emerged that he fought with the center of the muleta, not with the beak as is customary. To the tormented rhythm of the Sevillian nights in which the magical bullfighting, the unexpected, was hidden. That of the auroras evocative of punches from end to end in all heights like bunches of grapes, vapors of incense, echo of songs that enclosed the sphere, promise of great bullfighting and unexpected encounter of the revealing elf.
Personally, from television, Ortega’s verónicas seemed to me to be the deepest part of being, a common dance, a network of mutual meanings that became one when they were involved in the bull and bullfighter couple. Vision and responsibility of the other, inscribed in the double expectation of an elf that inscribed and differed and gave each pass a natural relationship of significance.
Juan Ortega, dark in moon green, carried the luck and finished off with a stocking that gave the impression that we were all one fighting the bull that replaced Domingo Hernández’s.
Juan Ortega’s underground empire of intimate radiation and caressing chance as if unwillingly, softly, until they fell integrated into undulations that when breaking created an inexpressible beauty very similar to the gently lulled sensations that opened the curve of the natural pass with the chest pass .