The fandango is a dance of the Colombian Caribbean coast, especially in the departments of Bolivar, Sucre and Cordoba. In the execution of this dance the dancers and dancers moving their bodies to the beat of the sounds and rhythms performed by bands of millo, bagpipes or popularly known as 34 bands; papayeras ".
Fandango is a danceable popular air, declared of Cultural interest in 2010.Ejecutado by a pair of lively movement, has ternary compass and octosyllabic verses and the frequent use of castanets marks a close kinship with the jota. Descending harmonic sequence more topical (A minor, G major, F major, my greatest ) He is a stubborn motive known from the late Baroque OrígenesDiversos romantic writers attempted to link it to an ancient sensual dance of Roman times known as cordax ( also called motus iconici by the poet Horace and by the playwright Plautus ). Writer of satires Juvenal makes specific mention to the testárum crépitus ( snap the castanets ) that, in his early Greek expression, it were used as cymbals or dishes for fingers.According to the authoritative dictionary of 1735, for then the fandango in Spain was a " dance introduced by those who have been in the kingdoms of India " in other words, means that its origin is Hispanic-American and peninsular Spanish not. Given the popularity of the fandango as exhibition dance at the end of the 18th century and early 19th Centuries, it is no wonder their presence and roots in the tradition of Asturias, Castile - La Mancha, Valencia, Murcia, Catalonia, Basque country, or Portugal. His gallant shaped the genre came to have some projection in the cultured European tradition through the work of Luigi Boccherini, Father Antonio Soler and Domenico Scarlatti.Fandango, and flamencoDesde beginning of the 19th century, flamenco adopted features of Andalusian fandangos, thus giving rise to the so-called " fandangos aflamencaos " that they are considered today as one of the basic Flamenco palos. The form of fandango is possibly that more variations has like no other expression of flamenco. From the dances of lamp variant takes special mention in Andévalo, Huelva, where occurs in particularly detailed way; in Malaga with its characteristic Verdiales, possibly originating in this kind of artistic demonstration mode; in provinces better known Alicante and Murcia, Albacete, Malaga, and the Granada area case of Almería, known here popularly known as fandanguillo. In La Alpujarra, the fandango is the typical dance of Trovo. more modalidadesEn Cuenca town of Mota del Cuervo dances a fandango the rash-like but simpler; dancing adds slow crossing and the final stop and crossing legs whipped. Known as La Mancha fandanguillo.Generally, in the Portuguese folklore, dancing alternates moments in duo with alternate from each of the two dancers, exhibitions while the other is limited to soberly rhythm.It should also be mentioned that the term " fandango " He is referred to folk dance festivals that emerged after the period of the Spanish conquest, which became popular for example at various points in the new Spain, today Mexico, which are rooted primarily in Spanish music, some perhaps African and indigenous influences, as the same term fandango which it has been argued that it may have its origin in a Bantu language, as the kimbundu
