For Brits swimming in floodwaters up to their hemlines, dancing in the streets may be the last thing on their minds. But for those able to escape the mid summer down-poors, a women and red dress and a Spanish guitar may just cheer you up - and did I mention you can get there for as little as 79 quid! Now I see you smiling...
Originating from Andalusia in the south of Spain, Flamenco is as much a part of Spanish tradition as olive oil, pealle and bull fighting. Flamenco - a woman dancing in a red dress dances to the tune of the Spanish guitar – an icon of Andalusia where music and dance is just part of everyday life.
The common image of Andalusia is one of colour, romance, and passion. Andalusia has a reputation for fiestas and celebrations that are overflowing with music and dance, women in colourful gypsy style dresses, silk shawls and hand painted fans in an array of dazzling designs.
The old men, faces scorched and cracked like the bank of an olive tree, their fraying straw hats an emblem of their past, and the courting couples dancing the most dramatic sevillanas are symbolic of life in this wonderful part of southern Spain.
Andalusia has always been a very musical land and is a place where music and dance is just part of everyday life.
The roots of flamenco are not known in a precise way, but there is a general consensus among scholars that flamenco is a fusion of the unique interaction of native Andalusia culture and the multitude of other cultures that intertwined themselves with Andalusia traditions over time.
Many people witness flamenco in some form during their summer holidays in Andalusia, especially on the Costa del Sol, where flamenco is in abundance.
Flamenco is a passionate and seductive musical genre, with strong, rhythmic undertones, and the accompanying dance is also impassioned, with vigorous movements. Flamenco embodies extreme feelings of love and hate, life and death, extreme passions, exaltation and despair, the entire memory – the ups and downs of the land of Andalusia, rocked again and again by the sea.
So let flamenco music take you on a holiday viewing trip to the south of Spain (Alicante) for as little as 79 pounds, the southern gem of Spain!
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