duende

"You know, there's a place in the dance when you just forget about dancing. And you do things beyond what your body has learnt- that's beyond what your conscious mind is aware of." 

-Duncan McCloud

The duende is a rarely explained concept in Spanish art, particularly flamenco, having to do with emotion, expression and authenticity.

"So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’ Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.

"This ‘mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained’ is, in sum, the spirit of the earth, the same duende that scorched Nietzsche’s heart as he searched for its outer form on the Rialto Bridge and in Bizet’s music, without finding it---"

"The arrival of the duende presupposes a radical change to all the old kinds of form, brings totally unknown and fresh sensations, with the qualities of a newly created rose, miraculous, generating an almost religious enthusiasm."

"All the arts are capable of duende, but where it naturally creates most space, as in music, dance and spoken poetry, the living flesh is needed to interpret them, since they have forms that are born and die, perpetually, and raise their contours above the precise present." [1] (http://www.tonykline.co.uk/Browsepages/Spanish/LorcaDuende.htm)

-- Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play of the Duende

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