Granada, (EFE).- The world of bullfighting has honored Federico García Lorca this Tuesday for the 125th anniversary of his birth with an act in Granada in which they have claimed the contribution of Lorca’s work to bullfighting and the image, ” truthful and without excesses”, which the poet built on what it means to stand in front of a bull.
The event, promoted by the Junta de Andalucía in collaboration with the Granada Chapter of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, was held in the Huerta de San Vicente, the Lorca family’s summer home, and was attended by the bullfighters Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez and Curro Díaz, who have read a manifesto, and the president of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, Victorino Martín, among others.
In the manifesto, the world of bullfighting claims the “source of inspiration” that bullfighting was for Lorca, who “from the bulls and towards the bulls”, built an image “true, without excesses, but abundant of what it means to stand in front of to a being like the bull, to be observing the game of movements where death can ‘lay its eggs in the wounds’”.
Lorca, who took up the Andalusian lyrical tradition and renewed it, “understood the importance of assuming the past as a timely legacy that teaches us forms and, at the same time, tells us a little about ourselves”, Rivera Ordóñez has read.
The legacy of a “unique man”
With Lorca “the great life experiences that we sometimes tend to forget, the harshness of existing, are recovered. In a certain sense, as also happens in the world of bullfighting, there is the harshness of existence”, continues the manifesto, which is put in the mouth of bullfighting: “We become a little better when a good poem or silence appeals to us reigns in the square, because it unites us among ourselves; that is, we know that we are not intimately alone in the world”.
A whole legacy, a history and the experience of “a unique man” who cultivated his art with “dedication and talent” is what bullfighting honors today, for whom Lorca has given the world of bullfighting “ways of seeing colors that only those who had the gift of ancient memory appreciated; of the sonorous gestures of a good verónica”.
“A memory that Lorca honored with his lyrics, songs and ballads and that we, today, one hundred and twenty-five years after his birth, return to him with pride and gratitude,” according to the text.
The manifesto recalls the times that Jorge Guillén said that when he met Lorca, somewhere, “it was neither cold nor hot, but Federico” to point out that in the bullrings, “when we look sensitively at what they mean each gesture, each silence or each paso doble, does a little Federico between bull and bullfighter”.
Performance by Kiki Morente
Victorino Martín previously intervened at the event, which closed with a performance by singer Kiki Morente, who said that Lorca “cannot be explained without bullfighting: both represent the duality of life and death and have in common that they are a shared celebration and culture of the people. Both are immortal.”
For his part, Fernando Navarro, coordinator of the Granada Chapter and patron of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, said that bullfighting today pays off a debt with the poet, whose work is “impregnated with the magic and elf of the world of bullfighting”. .
The act, has indicated the delegate of the Board in Granada, Antonio Granados, has sought to highlight, on the 125th anniversary of the birth of Lorca, the fusion between poetry, Granada and bullfighting due to the poet’s great connection to the world of bullfighting. EFE