Pacific Standard May-June 2013 Cover

Angry Spanish Now Dancing in Bank Lobbies, Are Good At It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iop2b3oq1O0 Since last spring, a Seville-based performance group calling itself Flo6x8 has been sending trained dancers into the lobbies of bank branches across crisis-wracked Spain and disrupting business. The group first gained attention last May when it staged a pretty decent flamenco in a branch of Bankia, one of Spain's largest banks and the current target of corruption investigations. Bankia, which is broke, rose 24 percent yesterday on reports that it would receive a 30 billion Euro (US $36.9 billion) bailout from the EU's crisis lending body. In the ... Read More