In the flamenco cafés she remained much in demand for decades, the performance star among bailaoras. Juana ""es la que hace muchos años reina en el arte de bailer flamenco"". In particular at the Cafe Novedades in Sevilla for fifteen years she held sway, setting the pace, defining the art. When La Macarrona 'consented' to dance, she might arise from her place like a queen of Sheba, sovereign, knowing, riding the music, proud of her art, perhaps too proud. As she raised her arms above her head it was as if favoring the world with the sight of her "baile". Her vital moves elicited 'lightning and thunder'.