Ever since the first time I had seen flamenco dancing, I was captivated by the passion that flowed through the dancer’s moves. Dance is only half an event without accompanying music (although dance does exist without music). Flamenco guitar (to me) is a perfect, passionate musical accompaniment to the dance. There is something about the passion that is expressed in both the dance and the music that makes indifference or tuning out not a viable option for me. There will be a flamenco dance performance coming up soon that I want to attend which spurred my curiosity about taking flamenco dance lessons. My curiosity is now abated. Lessons are offered so far away that I would be too exhausted from the effort of getting there to actually be effective in learning. I once took a few belly dance lessons and may need to resume those in order to instill some type of dance-related discipline and grace into my formerly awkward physical self. Or maybe I could imitate this performance in the confines of the bedroom as I did when I was an overly imaginative kid singing some Donna Summer song. As an adult, I would leave the standing ovation out of the scenario.
In anticipation of watching the live performance, I found this video. Enjoy! Of course, a mention of flamenco would be incomplete without my favorite flamenco guitar performance…