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Flamenco Contratiempo & Coordination Step [Flamenco Dance Steps]

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:

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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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