Flamenco of dress worn for the Sevillanas at the annual Feria in Seville. In traditional flamenco, young people are not considered to have the emotional maturity to adequately convey the "duende" (soul) of the genre. Therefore, unlike other dance forms, where dancers turn professional early to take advantage of youth and strength, many flamenco dancers do not hit their peak until their thirties and will continue to perform into their fifties and beyond. Flamenco Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura
Polo (flamenco palo) for this anthology, singers who knew this song were extremely rare. Since then, it has been recorded by several famous singers, but it has remained in There are several contradictory theories, that have been suggested regarding the origins of the polo and its varieties. The supposed quality of the polo and its pretended quality are but an invention of writers who did not know a word about flamenco singing. Many confused the Spanish or Spanish-American "polo" with the flamenco one, attributing to the latter the popularity of the other (Molina and Mairena [1965] 1979). The following recordings are usually recommended