:09:02
The morning of the wedding...
:09:15
Good. Now, Toñin.
:09:18
Keep it like that.
:09:19
Good. Good. I'm great!
:09:32
When I started to dance...
:09:34
...it was a necessity,
out of hunger.
:09:37
I wanted to study...
:09:39
...but that was impossible,
I had to work.
:09:43
I was eleven years old.
:09:45
First I was a bellboy.
:09:48
At 14, I went to work
in the "ABC" newspaper...
:09:50
...in the print shop.
:09:53
I tried everything,
even boxing.
:09:55
But after the first blow,
I said: "Never again".
:10:00
Next I tried cycling.
Anything!
:10:03
Until a neighbor by chance
suggested dancing...
:10:07
...and I took classes
at an academy.
:10:09
I danced like a child.
:10:13
I knew nothing.
:10:15
I studied under "Palitos".
:10:18
A while later, a black man,
Harry Fleming, saw me.
:10:21
He had a show...
:10:23
...a cabaret show.
:10:25
I thought I'd be dancing
flamenco...
:10:27
...he gave me a mambo shirt
and a bongo.
:10:32
I accompanied the
"Princess" Menet...
:10:35
She danced the mambo...
:10:37
...and I played the bongo.
:10:40
A friend recommended me
to Pilar López.
:10:45
What happened was that
I realized...
:10:49
...I wasn't going anywhere.
:10:53
I had no background.
:10:55
All I did was repeat
what I was taught.
:10:59
And I decided to leave
Pilar Lopez' ballet.