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What is Baile?
Baile is the corporal expression of flamenco. El baile, which has multi-cultural
influences from the south of Spain, has evolved parallel to cante and toque for
the last two centuries, to the point of setting its own styles and techniques.
The zapateado, arm waving, markings, turns, calls and brushes are some of its
elements, to which the performer's personality is added. La Malena, La Argentinita,
Vicente Escudero, Carmen Amaya, Antonio Gades, Mario Maya, Joaquín Cortés,
Eva la Yerbabuena... are only a few of the bailaores who stand out in flamenco
history. El baile is, perhaps due to its esthetics, the banner of flamenco worldwide.
Naoko Carmona, Japan
El baile is the reflection of the flamenco heart's feeling turned into movement.
Yoli, Spain
Baile is the human body in motion, sometimes leading, sometimes in synchrony
with, flamenco cante and flamenco toque. This body motion follows the pre-established
forms (palos) with ample room for improvisation.
Beatriz Contreras, the United States
El baile flamenco is the corporal art which makes it possible, through a trialogue
with cante and toque, to express the human being's purest and most primitive feelings
in a passionate way for he who expresses it and in a way with an impact on he
who enjoys it.
Nuria Lanzagorta, Mexico-Spain
Baile is a sequence of steps, and various movements - of palms, hands, arms,
head, eyes, hips and the whole body - joined together to express feelings, which
are coming from toque and cante.
Alexandra, Poland
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