The Ritual Dance of Fire is the best-known piece from the great ballet “ The Sorcerer's Love”, composed by the Spanish musician Manuel De Falla for the gypsy dancer Pastora Imperio and first performed in 1915. “The action takes place in a village in Andalusia. The beautiful gypsy Candelas was, in her time, in love with a young man who, even after being killed in a duel, continues to torment her by appearing to her as a ghost, and prevents her in every way from accepting the courtship of the yo...