{"id":120,"date":"2012-01-21T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2012\/01\/flamenco-movement-and-music-of-passion\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:09","slug":"flamenco-movement-and-music-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/flamenco-movement-and-music-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamenco &#8211; movement and music of passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>Ever since the first time I had seen flamenco dancing, I was captivated by the passion that flowed through the dancer&#8217;s moves.&nbsp; Dance is only half an event without accompanying music (although dance does exist without music).&nbsp; Flamenco guitar (to me) is a perfect, passionate musical accompaniment to the dance.&nbsp; 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.<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>There will be a flamenco dance performance coming up soon that I want to attend which spurred my curiosity about taking flamenco dance lessons.&nbsp; My curiosity is now abated.&nbsp; Lessons are offered so far away that I would be too exhausted from the effort of getting there to actually be effective in learning.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; As an adult, I would leave the standing ovation out of the scenario.<\/p>\n<p>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>In anticipation of watching the live performance, I found this video.&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xqxJMCQxb_Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, a mention of flamenco would be incomplete without my <b><font color=\"#ff0000\">favorite <\/font><\/b>flamenco guitar performance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/up6K4bmfaA0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the first time I had seen flamenco dancing, I was captivated by the passion that flowed through the dancer&#8217;s moves.&nbsp; Dance is only half an event without accompanying music (although dance does exist without music).&nbsp; Flamenco guitar (to me) is a perfect, passionate musical accompaniment to the dance.&nbsp; There is something about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/flamenco-movement-and-music-of-passion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flamenco &#8211; 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