Sebastián Cerezo

Sebastián Cerezo
Born
La Mancha, Castile, Spain
OccupationDancer

Sebastián Cerezo (also spelled Sebastián Zerezo)[nb 1] was a Spanish dancer from La Mancha.[2] In 1799, he was credited by Zamácola y Ocerín as one of the earliest and best dancers of the bolero,[2] a Spanish dance developed between 1750 and 1772,[2] which became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.[3][4] According to Zamácola y Ocerín, Cerezo danced slowly and his particular way of dancing marked the definitive transition from seguidilla to bolero (from voleo, cf. vuelo, "flight").[2] This original slow way of dancing was promoted by Murcian dancer Requejo around 1800 in response to the faster style of bolero dancing that had become popular over the years.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "Cerezo" and "Zerezo" were alternative spellings in the 18th century. The misspelled form Sebastiano Carezo is found some in English sources.[1]

References

  1. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2016). The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4422-5749-8.
  2. ^ a b c d e Martín, Elvira Carrión (2019). "El origen de la escuela bolera: Nacimiento del bolero". Danzaratte: Revista del Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Málaga (12): 30–44. ISSN 1886-0559.
  3. ^ Apel, Willi (2003). The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2.
  4. ^ Stevenson, Robert (October 1971). "El Melopeo Tractado de Musica Theorica y Practica Pedro Cerone". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 24 (3): 477–485. doi:10.2307/830283. JSTOR 830283.

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