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Here’s a bulerías move for you to try.
Use this flamenco step as an exercise to practice your contratiempo and skirt technique, or add it to your pataíta, your bulerías dance.
We begin this move with a marcaje, a marking step.
And finish with a contratiempo accent.
Ready to do some stomping and slapping?
Then try this bulerías move
You could add this remate to any bulerías marcaje, llamada, or another remate.
Today, a step from the archives.
It’s a salida por bulerías,
An entrance.
It’s a way to announce yourself,
“Hello, I’m coming out to dance.”
Here’s a flamenco marking step paired with a turn for you to try.
Once you have the step down, play one of your favorite flamenco songs in the 12-count compás, and dance it with the music!
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.
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’s a simple marking step in the rhythm of twelve.
Add this step to a choreography, or use it as a body technique exercise.
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
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.
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
Looking to add some flare to your tangos dance?
Here’s a fun tstep you could use.
Here’s a flamenco footwork pattern por tangos for you to learn.
Use it as an exercise to improve your technique and rhythm,
or…
Ready to try a new flamenco footwork step in the 12-count rhythm?
Here’s one for you!
How often do you practice accompanying yourself with palmas while dancing?
Namely while doing footwork.
Use the combination below to work on your palmas and footwork coordination in the compás of 12.
Could you incorporate the flamenco step below into a dance?
Use this tangos footwork pattern to: strengthen your contratiempo, practice technique, coordinate palmas with footwork, or as part of a flamenco dance choreography.
Here’s a flamenco marking step that uses the abanico in a percussive way.
We can create rhythms with the fan by tapping it against the body while open or closed.
In this instance we have the fan open.
Here’s a simple yet punchy tangos marking step for you to add to your collection.
The ending works great with the caída of the cante or when the guitar resolves.
Learn this step and use it in your bulerías pataíta.
You could use this step as a llamada, remate, or even a patá.
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