How to dance flamenco, flamenco travel in Spain, flamenco dance students and their experiences, interviews with flamenco artists, translations of flamenco letras (songs) from Spanish to English
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When I asked Cristina Hall what piece of advice she could offer flamenco dance students she told me she didn’t like giving advice “because I think it’s all relative; who am I to say anything?”
Still, she was willing to recommend the following:
First she encouraged listening to a lot of music,
Ready to be blown away?
Check out the following video of little Manuel Monje singing por bulerías.
Be sure to watch to the end to see his moves!
You’re going to love listening to the following backstage clip or Antonio Reyes before a performance in Spain.
Here’s the letra he sings:
A mi me llaman la atención
dos cositas tiene Caí,
las mocitas de mi barrio
y la calle del Mirador
Here watch Carmen Herrera and José Mijita doing a concert from home during the 2020 lockdown in Spain.
Here’s one of the letras you’ll hear:
Bulerías
Me ha costao un dineral…
Watch José Mijita singing from his home during the 2020 lockdown in Spain. He sings for over 15 minutes by himself, accompanied only at the very end with palmas and baile por fiesta.
Here is one letra he sings at the end:
Need to get a flamenco look but don’t have a lot of time or the best set up?
Try this fifteen minute look
You are going to LOVE today’s video of Chano Lobato.
It begins in the dressing room where he sings alegrías accompanied by his musicians. It then follows them out to the performance itself…
Watch and listen to Montse Cortés por alegrías in today’s video.
Here’s one of the letras she sings…
Alegrías de Córdoba
Me voy pa’ los callejones
a ver si me echan las cartas…
Ready to groove to bulerías?
You won’t be able to hold back from playing palmas along with this video of El Londro at the Centro Cultural Flamenco Don Antonio Chacón in Jerez…
Want to get flamenco glamorous but don’t have a lot of time?
No problem.
It can be done.
You are going to LOVE the following video of Farruquito, El Yiyo, and friends in fin de fiesta at Café Berlin.
But first, here’s one of the letras you’ll hear:
A couple of weeks ago I participated in my first performance since quarantine.
I danced sevillanas and bulerías, and I did not wear flamenco shoes.
And, once again I let my silver strands show.
Do you want to add some drama to your eyes but feel uncomfortable applying eye makeup?
A simple smokey eye doesn’t have to be complicated nor take a long time, and the results can be stunning.
It is a great look for flamenco.
Here's what I used & how I did it in ten steps:
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a fun flamenco makeup tutorial sponsored by my friends at Espacio de Arte Seattle. It was a great excuse to gather, get made up, and learn something while observing shelter in place due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The other day I had a flamenco show, and I let my grey hairs be. It felt weird, like it was the wrong place to expose my work-in-progress hair. Mainly because it is very clearly only partially grown out.
Here I explain about how I did my performance makeup to distract myself from those multiple colors atop my head.
There are many opportunities to see live flamenco in Jerez.
At the tabancos, the peñas, in bars and restaurants, at the tablao, at the theater …
Here’s a video of María Rosa dancing siguiriyas con castañuelas at Corral de la Morería in 1964 and one of the letras she dances to.
Here’s a tangos letra and a video of Fabiola Barba dancing to it on the Flamenco Tour to Jerez.
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