Mixing cultures

Back home, time to build up the bread supply again. My well-travelled starter returned safely home bulging with Spanish flour. I topped it up with French white organic flour and the two apparently got on well, as you can see. Actually, the holes in this bread are a little too large, resulting in drip hazards when spread with jam.

This evening we went to Narbonne to see Y Olé, choreographed by Jose Montalvo. Yes, five weeks in Andalucia without seeing a single flamenco show, even in Seville, and we go to one days after coming back home. It's actually a mixture of flamenco, hip-hop, and African dance, to a soundtrack of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, some jazz standards, and finally more conventional flamenco songs. It's not surprising that flamenco and hip-hop go together well, they are both dramatic forms of street dancing. And they worked surprisingly well with the Stravinsky. The flamenco dancers and singer were in fact recruited in Seville. It was colourful and mesmerising -- at times, with sixteen dancers, there was almost too much going on. An extract here.

Speaking of Seville, I put a few more photos in my Flickr album, mostly of the Alcazar.