Word: zapateado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youthful figure in tight pants and short jacket, his arms raised in the gypsy dancer's graceful but virile pose. For seven minutes, accompanied only by the rhythmic snapping of his fingernails, he stamped and whirled through the old dances, ending with the crescendo stamping of the flamenco Zapateado. At the finish. Escudero stood motionless, his face whitened and pinched by the effort, as spectators jumped to their feet, applauding wildly. From the gallery, a voice hoarse with emotion shouted: "Vicente, esto es!" (Vicente, that...
...from a rich cultural background; the "Bolero" and "Seguidilla," in particular, are two which depict the temperment of Spanish myth and ceremony. Ballerina Nila Amparo is lithe and electrifying in "Bolero." On the humorous side, Teresa and Juanele Maya do the famous wife-husband fight in "Bulerias." The fiery "Zapateado", works up to such a dramatic ending that the crowd demands to see it all again...