Ole! Carmen

After waiting for a few months, I went to see a flamenco show, Carmen, performed by “Ballet Teatro Espanol de Rafael Aguilar”(拉法葉亞吉拉佛朗明哥舞團) at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on Saturday. It was the first time I saw a large and official show live, so I was extremely excited! Their performance didn’t let me down; in the two hours, I indulged in every act and move, which was full of emotion.

The greatest part I think is the combination of flamenco, ballet, and Bizet’s opera music, which make the famous love story between Carmen and Don José have more surprise. Using classical music instead of traditional one let me see a whole new world of flamenco. Moreover, my favorite scene is “the prison” where Don José’s heart is trapped in because of Carmen. The dancer displayed the struggle for love by stamping as thunderstorm that astonished me for a very long time.

That night was so joyful that on the way home I was still thinking about the sound of their stamping and dreaming maybe I could dance like them someday!!

Why is flamenco?

I’ve joined flamenco club in NCCU for over three years. Learning flamenco was very difficult and depressing for me in the beginning because I had never tried any kind of dance before. But now, I love and enjoy the challenge, especially rhythmic and complicated “escobilla” (stamping of the feet) which I was afraid of at first.

In Taiwan, there are still few people know about flamenco. That’s the reason why I want to introduce this culture in the blog. I won’t write every detail about it because you can find a lot of information on the internet. All I want to do is let everyone recognize the basic concept of flamenco through an easy way. So let’s have fun in flamenco world!!