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- Flamenco is a Spanish originated form of art, equally dedicated to both music
and dance in such a way, selfless merge of spirit & body with music take place.
Mohammed Afzal, India
- Flamenco is the mother of all grief and the father of the party.
Paul, Spain
- Flamenco is dancing, cante and guitar playing from the south of Spain, Andalusia.
Although the gypsies are associated with flamenco, the condition for a guitarist,
cantaor or bailaor to appreciate and understand flamenco is to feel the rhythm.
Liz Farrugia, Malta
- Flamenco is the folkloric-musical expression par excellence of the Andalusian
people.
Felipe Pineda García, Spain
- Flamenco is not only a form of dancing, but also a way of life. Flamenco
is emotion, heart, soul.
Mandy-Lee Harrison, South Africa
- Flamenco is a mixture of cante, dancing and rhythm. Flamenco is a mixture
of ancestral traditions coming from the gypsies, folklore and coexistence of different
cultures which settled in Andalusia. It is the ancestral way that Andalusian people
have to express their deepest emotions.
Christine Charlton, Spain
- Flamenco is the expression of a people, it is a state of the soul. Joy, sadness,
disillusionment, misfortune... it doesn't matter what the feeling is, the important
thing is that we can express it through flamenco.
David Lagos, Spain
- Flamenco: feeling turned art.
Juan Manuel Molina Lara, Spain
- Flamenco is the fusion of music and the soul.
O, Russia
- Flamenco is a challenge, it is the eternal quest for a way to express feelings
intensely.
Érica de Oliveira Ramos, Brazil
- Flamenco is the folklore of the Andalusian people, but raised to a universal
art.
Santos, Spain
- Flamenco is a cry of resigned protest in pure form. Flamenco, originating
in the lands of lower Andalusia, is the history of a people who with all their
influences, end up creating this art which is expressed in three facets: cante,
dancing and guitar playing, three different ways of expressing the same feeling.
Coralitos, Spain
- Flamenco is an art, a sorrow and a smile from the soul, a way of talking
to God.
Anabella Araujo, Brazil
- Flamenco is the sentiment of the Andalusian people exorcized through cante.
Clemente Trujillo Toro, Spain
- Flamenco is a feeling, a popular music which transmits infinite feelings:
joy, excitement, sadness, jubilation... An art from centuries ago, an international
music which joins peoples and races, a way of life, a mystery.
Daniel Ojeda Martín, Spain
- Flamenco is a feeling of the soul which is danced, sung and played.
Verónica, Argentina
- Flamenco is one of the typical dance styles of Spain, with Arab and gypsy
influences. It is a dynamic genre, for having several different rhythms, creative
and one of the most complete for involving cante, clapping, heel tapping and instruments
such as the guitar, the box drum and the castanets. Flamenco has reached other
countries because of its beauty and sensuality.
Ana Cristina Mota de Camargo, Brazil
- Flamenco is a way of life, a means of expressing grief and joy, a result
of the cultural fusion specific to Andalusia.
Alejandro, Spain
- Flamenco is an art and a way of life mainly attributed to the gypsies, but
with well-defined Indo-Arab origins, as well as Jewish influences, among others,
intrinsically related to the South of Spain. Its most obvious displays are dancing,
cante and guitar playing, besides painting, poetry and bullfighting. In the light
of the artist, it is the expression of an entire feeling in notes, heel tapping
and ayeos. My feeling is that it is the transformation of shade into light by
means of a guitar.
Japhet Hernández Vaquero, Mexico
- Flamenco is the whole union of cante, guitar playing and dancing whose origin
goes back to the mixture resulting from the gypsies' arrival in Andalusia. Term
given to the whole of cante, guitar playing and dancing in Andalusia which is
capable of overwhelming the soul of those involved. The whole of the evoking feelings
of strength, blood, fire, passion and purity of the Andalusian gypsy people.
Nuria Lanzagorta Piñol, Mexico
- Flamenco is a culture, a way of life, an art where spontaneity and feeling
are at their peak.
David, Spain
- Flamenco is a way of revealing passion through cante, guitar playing and
dancing.
María Espina, the United States
- Flamenco is not only cante, dancing and guitar playing, but also a way of
life.
Kourosh, Canada
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