11.20.2008

gypsi emos

Flamenco.

I've been studying it in my Spanish dance class, she's been trying to help us relate. It's not just dancing, it's feeling, testifying, it's introverted in that you are dancing more for your self than the audience. To bring it home she 'likened it unto" a testimony, where you speak for other to hear, but honestly it's more for yourself, your listening, feeling, and then all of a sudden you're on your on feet, speaking.

Like a flamenco cafe, your listening to the singers, acting out rhythms with various pal mas, or hand claps, you're feeling the emotions of the song and then, all of a sudden, you're sharing your on the floor, speaking with your feet.

It's incredibly powerful, honest, seductive, beautiful and elegant. I'm in love with this style of dance.

The dancing originated from the Spanish gypsyies, their songs were full of mourning, of loss, they were a lower class and their dance reflected their songs. Just as Spain was searching for their national dance, the gypsy dancers were gaining popularity by the locals. The government took these gypsy movements and refined them in flamenco schools. Now these emotional gypsy dances are performed all over Spain in flamenco dance cafe's.

thank you to the emo's of Spain for this beautiful style of dance.

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