Duende.

"The duende's arrival always means a radical change in forms. It brings to old places unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, and it produces an almost religious enthusiasm."

- Federico Garcia Lorca "In Search of Duende"

"Duende" : Lorca describes it as that place of deep emotion that surpasses words, the part of a performance that interacts with its audience in an exchange of feelings beyond what is seen or heard. To know duende is to strip a song of the rules and linguistics, the skill or the lyrics... and allow it to take you somewhere that words cannot shape.

Being here, in Spain, the duende resonates in my spirit... I see it written all over this culture and these people. And now I finally understand what it is that makes this place so special. The Spanish sense the rhythms from others - they open their hearts and minds to experiences and people in a seemingly effortless manner because the duende is at the core of who they are. It originated here and will always remain in this place.

"she had to rob herself of skill and security, send away her muse and become helpless, that her duende might come and deign to fight her hand to hand..." -FGL