'Victoria Amador- the upcoming Flamenco Child Prodigy' - by K J S Chatrath

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Alegrías. Victoria Amador. Tierra de Talento. 2020

Last year I visited Spain. It was my third visit there. I went and saw a flamenco performance in Madrid. I had seen two earlier during my previous visits but this one somehow disappointed me.

I do confess that I do lot of web surfing. Though most of it it is with a focus. Now confined to the apartment, thanks to the fear of Covid, web surfing has increased.

I was looking at short clips of Flamenco performances on Youtube the other day and just stumbled upon a real gem. Before going further let me share a photo of this gem - a pretty little young lady with amazing talent. Her name is Victoria Amador 'La Rubia'. La Rubia, in Spanish means blonde. She is from Spain and is just 7 years old.


The little Antequera dancer Victoria Amador Arcos, or as Victoria Amador artistically calls herself  'La Rubia',   who with only 7 years has dazzled Andalusia on the Canal Sur Television program 'Tierra de talent' and offered on Saturday, March 21, where she passed the admission phase. http://www.elsoldeantequera.com/reportajes/35403-la-pequena-bailaora-antequerana-victoria-amador-la-rubia

Watch this amazing performance by clicking at the link below. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0Y1JzXh6A

The performance lasts for the first 4 minutes followed by a chat with the little dancer. Look at the sheer fury and passion in her performance.

Before moving over to a brief background of Flamanceo as a dance form, one would like to raise the issue weather it is fair to put so much pressure on a child of such a small age- pressure of learning dancing, of giving live public performances and being subjected to interviews by experts of the dance form. Think about it.


And now a brief introduction of Flamenco as a dance form. Flamenco is a form of song, dance, and instrumental (mostly guitar) music commonly associated with the Andalusian Roma (Gypsies) of southern Spain. (There, the Roma people are called Gitanos.) The roots of flamenco, though somewhat mysterious, seem to lie in the Roma  migration from Rajasthan (in northwest India) to Spain between the 9th and 14th centuries. These migrants brought with them musical instruments, such as tambourines, bells, and wooden castanets and an extensive repretoire of songs and dances. 

Castanets

In Spain they encountered the rich cultures of the Jews and the Moors. Their centuries-long cultural intermingling produced the unique art form known as flamenco.The essence of flamenco is cante, or song. Baile, or dance, has been the main element of flamenco since that time, though it is never performed without accompaniment (https://www.britannica.com/art/flamenco). 

Photo source: Claudio Castelucho

One ends by giving link to a Flamenco performance by a welknown experienced dancer from Seville, Spain. Flamenco Dance Show during dinner at El Palacio Andaluz, Seville, Spain.
do take a look. https://youtu.be/XNhfV_53W7A

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