This step is for you if you are ready to start coordinating abanico movements with steps.
Practice opening, raising, and closing the fan while your feet maintain a basic forward and back marcaje in the compás of twelve.
![Simple 12-Count Flamenco Dance Step with Abanico [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1748503892712-57QV6HYALNDH6H9OZLZA/IMG_1380.JPG)
![Flamenco Tutorial: Contratiempo por Tangos [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1747444032200-DJ9UJZL9SZ3L4F0UZQ3L/IMG_4CEDA4FF485B-1.jpeg)
Don’t you love contratiempo?
It's one of those signature flamenco sounds, and it can be oh so addicting.
In the video tutorial that follows I show you an exerciise por tangos to practice contratiempo.
Here is a bulerías letra José shared with us last Sunday, which was Mother’s Day in Spain.
You can listen to him sing it with Carmen playing palmas in the video below.
Need a little pick me up?
Choose any one of the following clips por bulerías to brighten your day.
![Simple 12-Count Marcaje [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1741983287385-A09AUCGT1ZNNKG7PBT6J/IMG_9570.JPG)
Here’s a simple marking step in the rhythm of twelve.
Add this step to a choreography, or use it as a body technique exercise.
Here’s something for you, flamenco dance lover.
Five flamenco dance videos, in no particular order, that are sure to captivate.
You'll see two of our teachers on the Flamenco Tour to Granada, Ivan Vargas and Irene “La Serranilla,” along with many more.
Love bulerías?
Then this is for YOU.
May the following seven clips of bulerías cante and baile brighten your day!
Watch here
![Simple Flamenco Marking Step with Pitos [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1737153402186-VDWBQ5A04F6PW900Y3HV/IMG_8459.JPG)
How are your pitos, finger snaps?
Here’s a simple tangos marcaje combination you can use to work on details like that as well as:
Arm movements, coordination, hands, head placement, and hips.
Watch the video tutorial here
Ready to experience the Christmas spirit flamenco style?
From the stage to the street, here are five clips to do just that
![Abanico Spins Tutorial [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1734168118110-906PT3SE7PKNSYO55QEX/IMG_7876+2.jpg)
Use the following flamenco step as a marcaje, a marking step, or as a remate, an accent or close.
Following the tutorial you’ll find a written breakdown of the steps and more on how to use this.
Use this flamenco dance mini lesson to practice:
Opening, closing it, and moving the fan.
Below find five flamenco dance clips for your enjoyment.
No time to watch right now?
Bookmark this page to come back to when you’re in need of some flamenco inspiration.
Here are five classic clips in celebration of El Día Internacional del Flamenco,
A day to celebrate, honor and raise awareness about the art of flamenco.
No time to watch right now?
Bookmark this post to come back to when you’re in need of some flamenco inspiration.
![Learn This 12-Count Flamenco Abanico Move [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1725057103415-LRIH2FOW1DPMQVP025KR/Abancio%2Bpurple.jpg)
Practice your coordination and contratiempo with this flamenco dance step.
In the video tutorial I use the abanico, but you could also do this move playing palmas in lieu of the fan for the percussive parts.
Don’t you love the feeling of snapping open the abanico?
There are many ways to open the abanico, the flamenco fan.
Here’s one of my favorite ways to do so
My dad has always been my biggest fan.
He regularly showered me with compliments, deserved or not.
He believed in me from the very beginning of this flamenco endeavor.
He believed in me during the times I didn’t believe in myself.
Flamenco lovers from throughout the US and Canada gathered for what was an incredible flamenco weekend with Mercedes Ruiz and Santiago Lara.
Here’s a summary of our workshops with these two incredible flamenco artists in images:
Enjoy this sneak peek into tech rehearsal with flamenco dancer, Mercedes Ruiz.
In the clip she dances to the guitar of Manuel Morao, a prominent guitarist from Jerez de la Frontera whose company she danced with when she was just six years old!
![A Tangos Remate [Flamenco Dance Steps]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568079e7bfe873f15c115eee/1714547296428-FKZXTU9KTIENBV8IB47C/Screenshot+2024-04-30+at+11.57.04%E2%80%AFPM.png)
Looking to add some flare to your tangos dance?
Here’s a fun tstep you could use.
