[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 23, Issue 20

[wildecelery at aol.com]

When I first joined the SCA in 1974, the Baroness
of Angels was Mistress Ximena Aubel de Cambria.
She and her sister, Viscountess Arabella Lyon de
Rohese had SCA personas from Spain, but,
mundanely, were of Castillian Spanish heritage.
[Their parents fled Spain in the 1930's.]
When they were young ladies, they had been
professional flamenco dancers in Jose Greco's
dance troup.  They were very thoroughly
knowledgeable in the history and lore of
flamanco dancing.  They told me that the
two major roots of flamenco dance were Spanish
court dances, like the Canario, and gypsy or
Rom dancing.  If a move or two has similarities
to a move or two in Middle Eastern dancing, it
is because it may have been picked up in the
many travels of the Rom.

Thank you  Huette, for the additional information.

-Ardenia












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