Sunday night the group went to the Sevilla Arena and watched a bull fight. It was quite interesting. A corrida starts with the paseillo, when everybody involved in the bullfight enters the ring and presents themselves to the president and public. Two alguacilillos on horseback look up to the president's box and symbolically ask for the keys to the puerta de los toriles.
Behind that door the bulls are waiting. When the door opens and the first bull enters the spectacle starts for real. It consists of three parts, called tercios ("thirds"), the separation of which is signalled with a bugle call. There are three toreros-bullfighters (the better-known word "toreador")-in each corrida, each being allotted two bulls. In the first tercio the bullfighter uses the capote, a rather large cape that is a pinkish-mauve colour on one side and yellow on the other. Now the two picadors enter on horseback, armed with a sort of lance.
The second tercio is la suerte de banderillas. Three banderilleros must stick a pair of banderillas into the charging bull's back. In the final suerte suprema the bullfighter uses the muleta, a small red cloth draped from a stick. He has to show his mastery to dominate the bull, and to establish an artistic symbiosis between man and beast. The corrida ends with the torero using his sword to kill the bull. It was quite .... hmmm it was interesting. I have never seen a man kill a bull with a sword.
Aside from that... 5:00pm this evening we had a Sevillian / Flamanco Dance lesson. They are starting a little class up at the school. They brought in professional dancers to teach. We didn't really do a whole lot besides learn basics and watch them dance. If we attended this class we got extra credit on our exam tomorrow.... and since we need everything we can get... everyone went. There are like 15 people signing up for the class.. I on the under hand will not be partaking in the class. I am a big white boy with no rhythm haha. It was interesting to see I guess.
Check out the new pictures I uploaded from the Corridas de Toros
http://photobucket.com/albums/v461/brandon5/
I also added a MISC. PIC album... if you want to check that out!
No comments:
Post a Comment