Do you rent an appartement in Sevilla? Then there are a fortune of things you must defenitely do, one of them is tasting the feeling of the flamenco dance.
After the sun is going down in the gorgeous town Seville, and when it´s beautiful weather and the terraces are full you´ll listen to the sounds of the flamenco dance. Sevilla isn´t just the capital of Andalusia but as well the founder of the flamenco dance.
The flamenco dance is a huge element of the Spanish culture, the Gypsies introduced these dance around the 15th century to Seville but just in the 19th century was this dance taking over by the local people in Spain. Flamenco is the conventional music, dance and song of Spain and mainly in Andalusia.
How do they make the flamenco music? The source is the song, the cante flamenco, this means de flamenco song. In the flamenco music you can pick up a lot of different instruments, this is a rhythmic beat. This beat is made by knuckles on the table, smack with the hands or strike with a stick on the floor. These are for the most part human instuments but we live in the modern time so they also use actual instruments. Instruments like the Spanish guitar, palmas, tinaja and the cajón. But they also use ´regular´ instruments like the flute, piano, violin and the cello. The flamenco guitar is however the largely popular instrument, on this sound are the complex hand moves and foot moves from the dance the easiest.
Regarding the starting point from the word flamenco is not so much information, we already know that the Gypsies introduced it but that is all. There are diverse thoughts regarding the description of the word, mostly it is mentioned as a fragment in a book or a journey story. For example the writer from England George Barrow mentioned the word in one of his books, he wrotes that the word flamenco was used for gitanos.
A famous Gypsy who plays a large element in the flamenco culture is Carmen. There are two statues of this Gypsy close to the huge canal in Seville, the Guadalquivir. It is assumed she was a housekeeper in the tobacco factory in Seville, that´s now a university.
But where can you find a really traditional flamenco dance when you stay in one of the appartementen Sevilla? Cause Seville is the spot to be when it´s about the flamenco dance, that´s why there are lots of places where you can find the dance. But if you don´t want to go to the touristic performance of flamenco, then you can go to a theatre, peña, tabloa or a Sevillian monastery. Plus if you really like this dance, then is the innovative modern Museo del baile flamenco a beautiful place to go. This museum is about the famous flamenco danser Christina Hoyos. You can make a spectaculate journey through the the past of this danser with a film and clothes from this period.
So go out of your appartement Sevilla and look for for the flamenco dance in this lively city. Cause the flamenco dance is just more than only smacking your heels on the dancefloor and the audience calling Olé!
