Hostel stay
3.
July 27th
Now at sunset before the stage of an open air flamenco performance
in Pearl Square not far from the downtown of this city, I listen
to a gypsy singer singing an exotic song unfamiliar to me, which reminds
me of the rough sound of Pansory song, a Korean traditional music.
It is the first time for me to have a contact with flamenco!
During the intermission of the performance ,I say to a man viewer
by my side regarding the Gypsy singer's voice:
" Hello, He has a strange sound, doesn't he ?
Ah... You seemed to really enjoy the singer's lingering harsh sound
of Ay! Ay! Ay' .
" Of course I love it. How would you like it?"
"To me the sound is completely unfamiliar, but not bad..."
"Oh! I am Bob living here as a carpenter. Nice to meet you",
We exchanged such words of greeting , and he introduced
to me a woman looking in her twenties on the wheel chair at his side.
'This is Ann, my daughter.
We two live here in the downtown'
"Hi, Ann!, I am Gohk from Korea, a traveller",
I introduced myself , giving a smile to her,
but she does not give me a word,
"......."
"?......."
To her daughter keeping silent he said again,
"Ann, This gentleman is here to see our Pearl festival",
and turning his face toward me,
he passed a line of hint about her in a lower voice,
"Hi, Moon , Ann remains just 5 years old in mentality."
Then I lost no time in replying to Bob,
sensing the situation,
"Oh!, ........Bob. you must be a flamenco afficionado!" ,
and again whispered to her as if to a little girl,
" Hi, Ann, you love flamenco, too? '
Bob replied,
"Ya. We are flamencos. Flamenco is indispensable
for both of us. As for me, it has become a of my life",
adding with his eyes toward her daughter again,
"Ann likes baile, particularly Alegrias, more buoyant and more rhythmic.
She even dances it on her wheel chair,"
"Hi, Ann, Your father said you dance alegrias well.
It is a beautiful dance?",
I said with my eyes turned to her,
and after a pause to her father,
"Today this is my first encounter with the cante siguirryia,
but strangely it seems not unfamiliar to me. Furthermore,
on listening to it, I felt tears gathering in my eyes.
As you know, I have never been present
at the flamenco performance before,
neither did I hear it sung."
"I got it. Oh, Gohk, you must be hooked by flamenco.
From now on, I am sure, you will be unable to resist
its lure any more",
he replied with a significant laughter and added,
" if you are okay , I will take you to a flamenco cafe
named Albaisin 5 minutes walk away by the riverside.
There on Saturday You can see a live flamenco.
And remember 'no vino, no flamenco'!
No art without intoxication!"
" Interesting! I heard that flamenco is a traditional dance
of Spain. Is it from the gypsy culture ? is it right?",
I asked. To this question he gave me a long explanation of it,
" Sure. It comes from Andalusian Gypsie. and at this time
flamenco mainly consists of cante( singing), baile( dancing)
and toque(guitar playing), which come to be all distinctive arts
in their own right and can stand alone,but it is not just theirs.
It now come to be universal beyond the geographical boundary.
As, you know, it is much more than just dance, just song.
That flamenco originated in the outpouring of suffering, lamentation and
protest among the gypsies and other oppressed peoples of Spain.
So, flamenco in its awesome spontaneity is in him who can suffer
from the world and feel within him
- like the dawning - an irresistible urge to cry out."
At the Pearl Festival
Moon
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