Re: Do they really learn to dance so fast?

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:28:46 -0700
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"curiousity" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I wasn't aware that you have to be Gypsy to dance Flamenco?
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Of course not. It is enough to have a special kind of devil (called duende)
inside.
>I am Turkish but
> live in US all my life. I do play mean zills. :)
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Zills? Then why don't you do belly dance? Quite entertaining.
(Although my friends complain that in a mysterious way, cash disappears from
their wallets when they watch belly dance; no matter how hard they guard
their pockets. Some of them even tried to hold cash tightly squeezed in the
fist, but that turned out to be an even worse idea.:-)
Spanish (Andalusian) Gypsies are pretty jealous with respect to Flamenco.
What tourists usually see is not real Flamenco; rather something to please
tourists' expectations.
The question about castanets was a tricky one (although not in the way it
turned out to be:-)
"Real" Flamenco is without castanets.
Moreover, it is said that castanets restrict the expressiveness of hands.
Still more, IMO "entertainment" is bad word to be used for Flamenco.
But this could be my limited command of English.
(Is tragedy an entertainment? I feel not; but it could be, especially in
America).
;mikkalai
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