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Baile is the highest corporal expression a person reaches and
through which he transmits a range of feelings and exteriorizes his deepest interior,
achieving majestic harmony when combining it with cante and toque.
Karina Fernández, Panama
El baile is the art of dramatizing flamenco feeling. For a person loving this
style, it is the culmination of body language, since it expresses what one feels
with the body. Each flamenco style has a form of baile, from the sadness of the
soleá to the joy of bulerías.
Elisabet, Spain
El baile is the feeling of flamenco expressed through the human being's most
natural and universal medium: his own body. Without words or instruments.
Francisco Javier Vázquez Ramos, Spain
If cante is the expression of Andalusian rage and pain, then baile is its energetically
proud counterpart.
Mary L., England
Baile is touching the ground with your heart.
Gaby Overduin, the Netherlands
El baile flamenco is a very ancient demonstration circumscribed to the Andalusian
world. It has prevailed for over two centuries, in constant evolution throughout
this period of time. It depends completely on the guitar which lends it the time
and rhythm essential for it to done, so its progress goes hand in hand with this
beautiful instrument. El baile flamenco is individual, introverted, is done in
a small area, is abstract (that is, it does not make up a plot), requires great
concentration and improvisation is of great importance.
José Antonio Menéndez Castro, Costa Rica
El baile means an evolution of words; because without needing them, with a
single gesture, you can transmit from joy to pain with rage or passion in between.
It is perhaps the most honest way to address people, because dancing, you're yourself,
without any other complement than your soul.
Carlos Ruiz, Spain
Baile is the spontaneous representation of the feelings and emotions of flamenco
by the bailaor.
Rumin Solis Manayan, the Philippines
El baile is the art of flamenco dance and most commonly the most popular aspect
of the flamenco art form. There are many aspects of flamenco dance, the clothes
people wear, the shoes, the hand movements, the rapid footwork, the stern look
on one's face - all of these things bring the dancer's story to the audience.
If someone were looking for the best example of dancing, they should look to videos
of Carmen Amaya - her gypsy passion and flamenco flare couldn't be paralleled.
Christopher Gotzen-Berg, the United States
El baile flamenco is the corporal expression of the emanation of all the energy
accumulated inside the bailador's body and which is conducted visually, oriented
by that so beautiful music and transmitted to all the audience by means of flamenco
styles. It can also be said that it is a physical and musical description of the
lifestyle of people who live in the south of Spain and the lovers of that culture,
it is one of the most complex and complete dances which frees the soul and sharpens
the senses.
Glenda Soriano, Venezuela
Baile is the corporal expression of flamenco feelings. The feet are used as
a percussion, and the body as a silent musical instrument.
Asime C. ÖZÖZER, Turkey
Electricity. Feeling. Expression. Magic. Spirituality. Sensuality. A meeting
of the inner world of the dancer and of the audience. A story told by the dancer,
not with words but pictures, sound, movement, emotion. Diving into myself so I
can find things worth told to those who watch. A most beautiful, fulfilling experience.
Christina Kollia, Greece
Baile is the dance of flamenco. The art of expressing flamenco's rhythms with
the body. The ability to portray grace, fire and emotion in personal ways that
blend with the compás and aire of flamenco's rhythmical palos. In true
flamenco spirit, a complement to the cante rather than a rival.
Jim Morris, England
El baile is the sublime mystery which can express everything: the soul of the
cantaor, the precision of toque and the unique flavor of clapping and cheering.
It is beyond all doubt the most complete expression of flamenco.
Isabella Venegas, France
Baile is not only a way for an artist to express himself but also to speak
without words about the emotions kept inside which one does not dare to say.
Sylwia, Poland
El baile flamenco is the sighs of the soul ripped by the guitar strings and
the caress of the quejío.
Maria Martín Mateo, Spain
Baile is the art of speaking with the feet, expressing feeling with the zapateado
and transmitting any feeling, it is real flamenco art.
Paula, Spain
El baile is the instrument which reveals flamenco art. It is the fusion of
feelings, the receiver of cante and toque like a body receiving fire. It is passion,
it is an idea, it is a rhythm... a force!
Érica de Oliveira Ramos, Brazil
El baile flamenco is felt so inside so strongly... that it reaches your soul,
flows through your blood and penetrates your bones, your muscles, your skin...
it takes over your body completely making you enjoy a fantastic sensation to the
beat of feelings. It originates in Spain but is felt throughout the world.
Nora Estrada, Argentina
Baile is the form of flamenco expression made by every pore in the performer's
body, where out comes pain, passion, joy, the flame of life. They are the most
intense human feelings which turn into movements mixing strength and smoothness,
force and beauty in raging feet and hands that do magic.
Cristiane Macedo, Brazil
The force, art and feeling of a person through his hands, feet and body in
general.
Esther Ruiz, Spain
El baile is the art of flamenco, is the highest expression which can be reached,
the most divine and at the same time real and passionate feeling. El baile is
everything. El baile is fear, sweetness, passion, love, hate, wrath... El baile
is many things, but I would summarize it in: el baile is flamenco.
Verónica Simón Donaire, Spain
Baile is when flamenco is expressed with all the body. It is a whirlwind of
passions, a rainbow of feelings. Turns, passes, weaving and rhythm. The art of
my land in motion.
Felipe Pineda, Spain
Baile is expressing with the body that which no word can ever explain, is to
enamor without a kiss going between, transmitting the weeping of the guitar and
the feeling which is torn from its throat.
Paco Carmona Álvarez, Spain
Baile flamenco is like a necessary and inevitable corporal unburdening. A sharp
reaction to all the neurons fed by cante and toque. A series of brilliant intuitive
motions, generated by the dynamism and magical sensations which can only be built
by a deep expressive personality.
Eric van Santen, Holland
Baile, or said another way: pure, firm expression of feeling and the way to
understand and transmit the echo of a cante, the melody of a guitar and sometimes
even the feeling of a people, of its roots, anguish and happiness through movement.
Sergio, Spain
El baile flamenco is the awakening of duende by the voice of cante and the
sound of toque, is the highest expression of the soul being relieved, beautiful
relief which is shaped forcefully and elegantly in every movement; sophisticated
simplicity wishing to unchain its passion. And it does so! It is the rhythm surrendering
to the fire dominating its flames... without putting them out.
Janet V. Palacios, Peru
Baile is the most beautiful way that we should learn to express pain, hate,
sadness, love and passion.
Leonor, Chile
Baile is simply Juan de Juan.
Silvia Limones, Spain
El baile is fire and is wings; courage and soul. It is legs, arms; hands, feet.
It is heel tapping, that rhythm nailed to the floor; the grown roots of flamenco
art, which shake upon the earth, which shimmer and cry out to heaven for gypsy
passion.
María Alonso, Spain
El baile is the freeing of the soul.
Begoña Bilbao, Canada
El baile is something unexplainable, is a way of expressing something that
we have inside and which we communicate with the sound of a guitar and clapping
and music. Where we let loose all our energy and when we do so we forget all the
misfortunes and sadness that a person can have, definitively, it is precious and
very beautiful to dance, I encourage everyone who reads this message to dance
flamenco.
Alicia, Spain
Baile is expression turned into motion (baile, dance) where the deepest and
truest emotions are mixed in an instant: love, hate, passion, pain, joy...
Enrique David Patzi, Argentina
El baile is the freeing of a thought, of an art, of a feeling of the soul.
It is an outside whole revealing a single passion; flamenco, a single feeling,
a devil and an angel in the body, that is dancing flamenco.
Claudia Cabaco, Uruguay
Definition of baile: el baile is the corporal expression of flamenco turned
into flesh and blood.
Daniel Brenes, Brazil
Baile is the expression of the soul. It is forgetting about everything and
living the moment in motion. In flamenco, those who dance exteriorize their strongest
feelings, joy, nostalgia, grief... to that flamenco rhythm which their heart is
already used to.
Carlina Chen, Panama
El baile is the faithful reflection of the soul, with which we can express
what we feel and at the same time it is a form of personal unburdening. Thank
you and thank you.
José María Argañaraz, Argentina
El baile is simply the beat of a flamenco heart to whose rhythm an entire body
moves purely and nearly unconsciously.
Coralitos, Spain
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