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Palo is the term used in flamenco to describe the various "forms"
or families of the flamenco art; alegrías, seguiriyas, soleares, tangos,
peteneras, etc. Each palo has many regional versions most based on cante letras
or verses, some danced and some totally unaccompanied and all originating either
from Andalusian, Gitano, folk or a mixture of all three. Individually they form
the branches of the family tree of flamenco.
Jim Morris, England
Palos are the colours of flamenco. Each colour expresses a different feeling.
These colours can also change in each palo, it is the black sadness in soleá
but it is also the light tones of happiness, or it can be the burning red of passion
of tangos or the navy blue in alegrías. These colours are independent but
at the same time connected to each other.
Pinar Dinlemez, Turkey
Palos are the musical styles of flamenco. Each palo links a specific rhythmical
division to its historical roots and cultural influences; each palo is the possibility
of musically expressing a feeling.
Tiza, Brazil
Palos are the different styles of flamenco, which are differentiated from each
other by each one's rhythm.
Esther Ruiz, Spain
Palos are the different branches of a large tree with its roots deep in the
Andalusian soul.
Kate, the United Kingdom
Palos are the different ways of performing flamenco art.
Daniel Brenes, Costa Rica
Palos are the rhythms or airs characteristic of flamenco, which represent each
region where they arose and must be performed with great knowledge of the rhythms
and metrics which distinguish each one.
Álvaro Mezquita, Mexico City
Palos are the diverse styles that this art is expressed with. Originating styles
existed which they were derived from, later setting up the full range of forms
with which flamenco has appeared over time some of the ancient palos have had
to be revived due to the fact that they had stopped being performed by cantaores,
others have prevailed since their origin.
José Antonio Menéndez Castro, Costa Rica
Palos: Earth, sun, sea, mountain. Skin, sweat, the sap of a trunk recently
ripped out by a lightning bolt. A child's weeping, a wedding's joy, death. The
mother.
Miguel, Spain
Palos, with their varied complexity, are the forms or structures by which flamenco
art distinguishes itself from other musical currents. They are the different raptures
of a close memory. Feelings with a name. Classified by the depth of performance
which they all require. They are emotion rousers which inspire the metaphor when
it is time to explain their basic inside textures.
Eric van Santen, Holland
Palos are the castes of flamenco: some cry, others laugh, but they all express
the Andalusian soul. The rhythm, the accent, and the number of syllables in the
lyrics mark the difference between them. Through alegrías, saeta or soleá,
through caña, caracoles or without anything flamenco is the art of strength
and solemnity.
Nuria Lanzagorta Piñol, Mexico-Spain
Flamenco palos are each of the different feelings which the soul expresses
displayed through cante.
Miguel, Spain
Palos are a set of about forty flamenco styles that aid the practitioner with
true self expression of the raw emotion he or she feels at that time and sometimes
at that very moment.
O. (El Pescado) Cavanaugh, the United States, Laurel, Maryland
Flamenco palos are above all tools to transmit, by means of cante, toque or
baile, a full range of emotions which can go from the party and purest joy to
tragedy and the most dramatic solitude.
Gonzalo Franco, Uruguay
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