ケイト・ウォルシュさんのインスタグラム動画 - (ケイト・ウォルシュInstagram)「#SOUNDON!!💃🏽 dig this: what a badass! Shared from @sergiowastaken & @historycoolkids Carmen Amaya was considered "the greatest Flamenco dancer ever" and was the first woman to master the intricate footwork that was often reserved for the best male dancers. Here she is dancing in 1944 at around 30 years of age.⁣ ⁣ Amaya was born to an impoverished family in Barcelona in 1913. At age 4, she began to accompany her guitarist father at night to dance and sing in pubs.They earned a living by collecting the coins that their audience would throw on the floor.⁣ ⁣ She gradually worked her way up to performing in small theaters. In 1929, her name was printed for the first time in a local newspaper. An art critc by the name of Sebastià Gasch wrote the following review:⁣ ⁣ "Suddenly a jump! And the gypsy girl danced. Indescribable. Soul. Pure Soul. Feeling made flesh. The floorboards vibrated with unprecedented brutality and incredible precision. La Capitana was a gross product of Nature. Like all gypsies, She must have been born dancing. It was before school, before the academy. All that she knows, She must have known from birth. Promptly, the viewer feels subjugated, upset, dominated by the face of La Capitana, by her fierce hip movements, by the bravery of her pirouettes and the force of her broken turns, whose animal ardor ran parallel with the astonishing accuracy with which she executed them. The raging battery of her heels and the unsteady play of her arms now aroused, excited, then collapsing, surrendered, abandoned, dead, gently moved by the shoulders, are still recorded in our memories like indelible plaques. what caused us to look at her dance was her nerve, which twisted her in dramatic contortions, her blood, her violence, her wild impetuosity as a caste dancer."⁣ ⁣ Her fame continued to grow and soon she was rubbing shoulders with celebrities in Hollywood. In 1941, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and even had the opportunity to meet Franklin D. Roosevelt who invited her to dance at the White House.⁣ ⁣ She passed away in 1963 at the age of 50 due to kidney failure.⁣ ⁣ Source: https://www.romarchive.eu/en/flamenco/carmen-amaya/⁣ ⁣」1月3日 12時08分