When I was young I studied classical dance for about 6 years and, even if my life made different choise for me, dance is always in my soul. Everytime I hear music I can't stay still and everytime I can dance, I dance! The last time was this summer, when me and hubby were to an event in one of the square of my city. Old ballades, ancient music from different coutries and a group of people who teach to everyone the ancient dance moves. It was really funny ^_^
In this post I want to talk about a dance that I saw some years ago in a theater in Florence: the Malambo!
Malambo is a Argentine step dance. I'm Italian, so maybe you think it's strange that I want to talk about a dance from another country, but when I saw the first time this dance it was a great emotion for me. I just watched some malambo dancers on the tv and I thought it's time to share my emotions about it^_^
I know there are some Argentine steemians and I hope they will appreciate this "homage" to their dance!
I read some informations online about Malambo in Spanish (I can read in Spanish because it's similar to Italian) and so I hope to find the right words in English ^_^
Malambo originated around the 1600 in the region of Pampa. It was a dance just for men, to show their ability with boleadoras and the dance have a great footwork. Some series of steps (zapateo) separated by a stroke of foot (repique) that give a fast sound to end the previous zapateo and to introduce the next!
The music of malambo is played with drums and a guitar, but also the step of the dancers make sounds, so it's all very emotional and if you see it you can feel all in your soul! It's fantastic, a pure emotion!
See ya soon
Silvia
