#Spanish Dance

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Suddenly a jump! And the gypsy girl danced. Indescribable. Soul. Pure Soul. Feeling made flesh. The floorboards vibrated with unprecedented brutality and incredible precision. La Capitana was a gross product of Nature. Like all gypsies, She must have been born dancing. It was before school, before the academy. All that she knows, She must have known from birth. Promptly, the viewer feels subjugated, upset, dominated by the face of La Capitana, by her fierce hip movements, by the bravery of her pirouettes and the force of her broken turns, whose animal ardor ran parallel with the astonishing accuracy with which she executed them. The raging battery of her heels and the unsteady play of her arms now aroused, excited, then collapsing, surrendered, abandoned, dead, gently moved by the shoulders, are still recorded in our memories like indelible plaques. what caused us to look at her dance was her nerve, which twisted her in dramatic contortions, her blood, her violence, her wild impetuosity as a caste dancer.

Sebastià Gasch, art critic, 1929.

Regarded as "the most accomplished Flamenco dancer of all time," Carmen Amaya was the first female to master the complex footwork typically reserved for top male dancers.

Amaya was born into a poverty-stricken family in Barcelona in 1913. From the tender age of 4, she began to accompany her guitarist father at night, performing in pubs where they danced and sang to earn a living by gathering the coins that patrons would toss onto the floor. Progressively, she moved from pubs to performing in minor theatres. Her fame grew, and she soon found herself in the company of Hollywood celebrities. In 1941, she graced the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York and was invited to perform at the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Amaya's life was tragically cut short due to kidney failure in 1963 at the age of 50.

This footage shows her dancing in 1944 when she was around 30 years old.

[virtie333]

I could watch this all day...

[rastronomicals]

7:20 AM EDT March 31, 2024:

John Fahey - "Spanish Dance" From the Compilation album   The Best Of John Fahey (1959-1977) (1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Fingerstyle

[gustavodalmasso]

Emma Garau Cima

Emma Garau Cima, “Chocolat d’Espagne” (“Spanish Dance”) from “Le Pays des Sucreries” (“The Land of Sweets”), “Nutcracker Casse-Noisette”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreo by Fernand Nault after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, sets by Peter Horne, costume by François Barbeau, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, Place des Arts, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (from December 12th to 30th, 2024).

Source and more info at: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Website Les Grands Ballets Canadiens on TikTok Les Grands Ballets Canadiens on Twitter Les Grands Ballets Canadiens on You Tube Les Grands Ballets Canadiens on Facebook Les Grands Ballets Canadiens on Instagram Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko Website Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on 500px Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Twitter Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Threads Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Behance Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Pinterest Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Facebook Photographer Sasha Onyshchenko on Instagram

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[elizabeth-mitchells]

one more sudoku will fix me im so sure

[nipuni]

Photos at Madrid's Victory ball! 💃

We attended our first ball! It was such a dreamlike experience!! It was also our first time doing Regency reenactment so it was a challenge. We haphazardly put together some looks, had a great time learning more about the fashion and the dances and met a bunch of lovely people from all over the world. The palace was stunning, the live band was wonderful and the food delicious, it was an unforgettable night 🥰

[lionofchaeronea]

The Flamenco Dance, Manuel Ruiz Guerrero (1864-1917)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Y Tú Te Vas • Torero • Quisiera Ser • Salomé (Club Mix-Radio Edit) • Completamente Enamorados • Fiesta En América • Tu Pirata Soy Yo • Este Ritmo Se Baila Así (Sye Bwa) • Tiempo De Vals • Provócame • Dejaría Todo • Baila Baila (Memê's Boriqua Radio Edit) • Tal Vez Es Amor (Talvez Seja Amor) • Candela

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[vocalaar]

yummers

[rastronomicals]

7:57 AM EDT September 23, 2024:

John Fahey - "Spanish Dance" From the Compilation album   The Best Of John Fahey (1959-1977) (1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Blind Joe

[gustavodalmasso]

Valeriya Grudina

Valeriya Grudina Валерыя Грудзіна, “Spanish Dance” from “Nutcracker Шчаўкунок”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев (original by Marius Petipa), choreo by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев, set design by Eugene Lysik Евгений Лысик, costume by costume by Oksana Zinchenko Оксана Зинченко, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.

Source and more info at: Photographer Pawel Suschtschönok on Threads Photographer Pawel Suschtschönok on You Tube Photographer Pawel Suschtschönok on Facebook Photographer Pawel Suschtschönok on Instagram Photographer Pawel Suschtschönok on VKontakte

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[lovelyballetandmore]

Yanier Gómez Noda | Spanish National Dance Company (Compañía Nacional de Danza, Spain) Photos by Albiru Muriel

[gd-dollopole]

Today, I offer you:

Dirty Dancing Merthur AU (if you haven’t watched Dirty Dancing, you go watch it now, you child of the most corrupted thing on earth—)

Just joking.

It’s perfect. Frances even gets called “Baby” in the movie, so Arthur can be called “Arthie”. Imagine him falling in love with Merlin, the broke, attractive Cha Cha dancer in the Summer resort he, Morgana, Uther and Ygraine go to to spend their holiday in, and having to keep the relationship a secret, because it’s the 1963—

Morgana gets to dance with Merlin, and Arthur’s jealousy ensue, and UGH, the yearning that can come out from this.

Everything can be a Merthur fic @achillesuwu