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A comment on Trip Advisor, from Snowflakes, USA (242 reviews), was titled: “Never Give a” 5 “, But This Gets It” – “I never give a” 5 “, but this succeeds. The good relationship between the artists of our tablao is obvious, it is obvious how they enjoy themselves, as they enjoy the company of their colleagues on stage (pictured right). The flamenco there languishes, misses its essence: intimacy. Flamenco is not made for multitudinous events (What does a tocaor look like sitting on his chair, only with his guitar, in a stage of 15 X 20 mt2). īefore arriving at the public stages, he played with family, at private parties, in closed cellars, which gave him an air of semi clandestinity. To understand it, you just need to feel it to feel it, privacy is fundamental.
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It is a music that touches the universal soul. The flamenco jondo (jondo comes from deep, deep) combines, in a crucible never seen before, five musical cultures: the local Andalusian folklore, the music that brought the gypsies (that emigrated from India arrived to the south of Spain in the year 1400 ), Arabic music (the Arabs were from the year 700), and also musical features of the Jews and Castilians. It expresses better Federico García Lorca: “The Andalusian folklore is local color, flamenco jondo, universal color”. Flamenco takes elements of Andalusian folklore, but it stylizes it, sublimates it, and turns it into art. It does not come to mind a decoration made with Andalusian lanterns and Manila shawls (for more inri, made in China). It does not need additions, paella, or folkloric adornments. Flamenco is an art that stands on its own. The audience literally stuck to the stage, surrounded by three rows of chairs. As you can see in the image, we are guided by a purpose: We want to recover the intimacy, which was the essence of authentic flamenco. In the photo to the left, our Tablao, Essential Flamenco. The flamenco jondo needs silence, attention and the respect of the audience, so that the deep emotion, which the gypsies call “elf” appears. A nonsense, which in addition to disrupting the artists’ emotions with the fuss of a restaurant, undermines the greatness of this art. The first packs appeared “cena + flamenco show”, and so, for a purely commercial reason, in the foreign imagination has been installed the idea that flamenco must be seen dining. In the 60’s, with the massive arrival of tourists to Spain, dinner was added. There was born the name “Tablao”, which was then popularized in public places that were opened by Madrid. Attendees (like those in the picture on the right, taken in the legendary “Gabrieles” tavern) sat in a circle, and the artists sang and danced in the center.įor the bailaor, for the tapping to sound, he would put a table on the floor. The brick vault is extraordinary for music, it does not reverberate and naturally amplifies the sound. The performances were usually performed in vaulted brick basements that many taverns, like ours, had downstairs. The performances were improvised: the wealthy gentlemen (many aristocrats), made a common bag and hired artists, such as Antonio Chacón, Ramón Montoya, Manuel Torres They danced The girl of the Peines, Pastora Imperio … for those parties passed all the great ones of flamenco. At the beginning of 1900, flamenco was a music that only heard select ears in private parties. The term “Tablao” comes from the word tablao.