Flamenco in BO

An acquaintance here, Rosella, sent me a text on Friday asking if I’d like to go with her to a flamenco performance on Sunday. While I haven’t really seen much of it I’ve always found it to be quite dramatic and agreed. So she picked me up near Porta Saragozza and we went off to the performance. The dancer (there was only one) is also a teacher and Rosella said that she was taking flamenco lessons. There were several other flamenco students there as well, most half her age.

The venue was a small deconsecrated church with some nice frescos in front and on the ceiling. The structure of the performance was a harpsichordist, a violinist that seemed to me to be very good, a guitarist, and a guy who I started thinking of as “the professor” who gave little background about the composer before the start of each little segment. Some of the segments were purely instrumental and other included the dance.

I tried taking pictures of the dancer and although my little camera performs quite well in low light without a flash (which would have been terrible to use at such an event) it really couldn’t manage with the movement. In a moment of enlightenment I found that after I quite trying to capture the evening in photos I enjoyment of it was considerably greater. I quite worrying about the future and immersed myself in the enjoyment of the moment. And it was enjoyable, good music and good dance with emotion running through it all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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