Paso Doble | Love & Bullfighting
Paso Doble and A Taste of Spain Party | Aurthur Murray Kenilworth NJ
Inspired by the fierce summer bullfights in the shimmering heat of the Spanish plains, the Paso Doble is fusion of heat, love, dominance, and conquest:
Paso Doble atmosphere is powerful, intoxicating and intense with fierce drama and captive energy. It puts the audience under its majestic and magical spell. Danced at its best it requires both composure and stealth. Paso Doble was originally a dance simply depicting the actions of the Matador with the lady portraying the cape. It has now progressed from that style with the dancers enacting the role of the torero, picador, banderillero, bull, or Spanish dancer, interchanging their roles at will.
It also now includes many flamenco and Spanish dance movements. From early in history there has been Spanish supremacy as a country of dance.
The Matador is the most thoroughly masculine of all male dancers. He is the wielder of the cape. His arrogant stance displays bravery and defiance in the face of the enemy. He is ruthlessly in control and always shows off the lady to her best advantage. Paso Doble is a man’s dance and out of the five latin dances it is only in this dance where the man is the centerpiece. (Shirley Aymé, Paso Doble Styling).
