Wednesday night I went with the girls to a Flamenco show because it was 10€ that evening. It was certainly not a traditional Flamenco show, it was more of a tourist trap with a lot of pre-recorded music and group dances that were choreographed to hell. Still, it was a beautiful demonstration of the traditional dance moves and the live band was great when they actually played.
It has been very cool learning about things in my culture class and then seeing them actualized in museums or shows. We'd just learned a lot about Flamenco so seeing all of the moves and the feet-stomping along with the music (live that is) and singing was actually very interesting.
Still, it wasn't the original people-dancing-on-the-street-out-of-joy Flamenco that I would have liked
The dance consists of a lot of foot-stomping not unlike Riverdance. But moreover it reminded me of something else. Watch these two videos and tell me if they don't seem similar?
The first is the traditional foot-movements of a Flamenco dancer and the second the Fino gait of the Paso Fino horse which originated in Spain and then was bred to a bunch of feral horses to become what it is today. I guess the Spanish like clod-hoppers.
In other news I am sick. Everyone has been sick and I've now caught it so I've spent the past two days trying to get better. It sucks because this is the last weekend I have in Madrid but I would rather rest now than be miserable back-packing through Europe, right?
I have finals Monday and Aixa and I leave Tuesday evening to begin our adventure. Hard to believe that this time next week I will be in Rome!
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