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Those words come from his classic lecture on “duende,” the spirit he saw as presiding over Spanish culture — the dark, earthy, imperfect, wild, morbid quality of its greatest art, music and bullfighting.

They walked quickly and without a sound, passing long shadows and the ominous snicker of the mischievous duendes who could take your rucksack just as easily as they could steal your memories.

But the duende of flamenco happens — and maybe not by accident — to sound much the same.

The simultaneous fondness for the recurring motifs of speculative fiction and its irreverent mocking of twists and tools that have been done to death are central to this show's duende.

Primitive Grace, Mr. Calderon’s company, has adopted as a guiding principle the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca’s theory of “duende,” in which he identified the sources of artistic inspiration.