Word: flamenco
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...rhythm of the Flamenco. Something like "Da-da-da-da-da... BOOM' Da-da-da-da... BOOM!" "Get set, wind-up, pitch... BOOM' Get set, wind-up, pitch... BOOM...
Whisper "Spain," and images well up from the back of your mind: toresdors, flamenco guitars. Carmen, and Don Quixote. Unfortunately, this romantic ideal has been all but trampled out by paternajistic yet persistent fascism. The political realities of Spain, a country of loosely bound provinces and great internal strife, obliterate the Spain of the Moors, of El Greco, and the Siglo...
...barren countryside of La Mancha. which surrounds Madrid--you can easily imagine Don Quixote sparring with windmills here--contrasts sharply with the tropical plushness of Andalucia, the southernmost province. Seville, wreathed in palms, is the last of the romantic cities on the continent. Here you will hear flamenco guitars and see flamenco dancers snap castanets. The sun shines in Seville with a pure white heat--different from the stifling atmosphere of Madrid--that infuses the town with a feeling of laziness...
...looking for the last relics of a fading comanticism, an institutionalized laziness, and above all, palm trees, or if Spain means flamenco to you, then breeze through Toledo and maybe Segovia, dash through Madrid, and head for Seville. Bring a panama...
...Siretta, the company's choreographer. "We're doing something old, but we're also doing something new." For the second of Johnny Jones'show stoppers, Yankee Doodle Boy, Siretta used clog dancing, a style that was common in 1904 and looks a bit like flamenco dancing, with feet and legs moving up and down in one spot. He has widened the motions, adroitly using as much as he can of the Goodspeed's small stage...