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Fandango Dance - Streetswings Dance History archives - Main (857 words) |
 | The Fandango may go all the way back to ancient Rome, while Romans called it the Spanish Dance, it was probably the Fandango dance. |
| By the 19th century it was said the Fandango was scarely danced and was replaced by the Jota, Sevillana and Bolero. |
| - The Menuet Afandango is partly composed of the Minuet and Fandango. |
| Fiesta Pavilion: Baile...The Dance (4179 words) |
| However, the generally accepted origin of the flamenco dance is that it was originally adopted by the ancient Andalucian gypsies from the Moors and to some extent the Arabs, originally intended to express the gypsy desire for recognition and freedom by way of dramatic, technical footwork, intricate guitar playing and sorrowful song. |
| La Argentinita was engaged in a long-time romantic relationship with Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, an intellectual bullfighter (married to Dolores Gomez Ortega), for whom she retired from dance for a short period and whose death from a mortal wound in the bullring in 1934, left La Argentinita devastated. |
| Unable to complete her dance, she turned to her guitarist (Batista) and said: "Andres, we're finished!" Amaya's mode of flamnco rarely complied to the established orthodoxy but coming from such an immensely talented source, it was accepted without any need for explanation. |
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