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Could you incorporate the flamenco step below into a dance?
Use this tangos footwork pattern to:
✨Strengthen your contratiempo
✨Work your golpes and tacónes
✨Practice coordinating palmas with footwork
Or add it (or part of it) to one of your flamenco dance choreographies.
Ready to learn the step?
1. Watch the video tutorial to learn the footwork pattern.
2. Next, bring your speed down, and add palmas on the primary counts only.
(In this case first just on the 1 and 5 gradually adding more palmas until you are clapping on each beat.)
3. Practice slowly for as long as you need to.
4. Gradually bring up the speed.
Check it out here:
Some Notes:
Instead of adding palmas you can do some arms or use your skirt.
For additional support, practice with music or compás in the 8 count rhythm.
Here are the steps written out with counts:
1 right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦 (stomp)
& left 𝘵𝘢𝘤ó𝘯 (heel)
2 right 𝘵𝘢𝘤ó𝘯
& left 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
3 right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
& left 𝘵𝘢𝘤ó𝘯
4 right 𝘵𝘢𝘤ó𝘯
& left 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
5 right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
& left 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢 (ball of the foot)
6 🚫
& left 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
7 🚫
& right 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢
8 🚫
& right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
Repeat full pattern starting left
Repeat full pattern starting right
Ending:
1 🚫
& left 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢
2 🚫
& left 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
3 🚫
& right 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢
4 🚫
& right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
5 🚫
& left 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢
6 🚫
& left 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
7 right 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘦
How will you use this step?
(I myself incorporated part of it into a tientos llamada.)
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