Did you know?

Z A P A T E O

Also known as “zapateado”, zapateo is called the rhythmic percussion of feet using shoes with leather sole and nails under heels and tips. The sound is made by different ways, the most important are:

Golpes =  deep sound banging the floor with the whole sole of the shoe

Planta = sound created banging the floor only with the bottom of the front part of the foot, keeping ist sole very flexed for a clear sound. This is the most difficult movement of Zapateo.

Tacón = high sound made by banging the floor only with the heel, keeping the foot on the floor or up.

Punta = sound done only by the tip of the shoe

These basic movements of Zapateo are combined on different ways to create musicality of percussion. This combinations are used in dance

    ·                   To do a call to the singer to start

·         To finish a singing part

·         To change from a singing part to an footmovement part

·         To begin an „escobilla“

·         To acelerate rhythm

·         To change rhythm

·         To end a dance

Abc of Flamenco

Belén Maya

(New York, 1966). Bailaora, dancer “the filmpostersilhuette of  'Flamenco' from Carlos Saura”

Belén Maya García was born during a tour of her parents Carmen Mora and Mario Maya in New York (USA). She began her training in Madrid where she ever had her home. She acted as soloist dancer and PrimaBallarina at Carmen Cortés and Mario Maya companies. Completing her training in Italy, Germany and Great Britain with classic, hindu and modern dance, her style became exceptional , taking tradition, modernisation and aesthetic to he same level. Belen Maya joins stage with teaching. She is staffmember of the Jerez Festival.

SPAIN´S  Tablaos  flamencos

“El Arenal” Seville

Anno 1975, owner: Curro Vélez, dancer and choreographer

 El Arenal is one of the most important tablaos of Andalusia. In a typical building from the 17th century, completly reformed, El Arenal receives the flamenco-loving guests in one of the most visited places of Seville: between the bullring “La Maestranza” and the river Guadalquivir. The shows and traditional andalusian gastronomy are offered within the so typical decoration of Spain´s south.

 

    www.tablaoelarenal.com

 

 

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A L E G R I A S

Also known as “Alegría” or “Cantiñas” are as well flamenco singing and dancing with a very lively music wich belong to he group of „Cantes de Cadíz". Descendants of the „Soleares“, Alegrias are celebration singings, considered one of the most important kinds of Flamenco.

They are played with twelve times,

beating mostly the accent on 1st, 3rd, 8th, 10th and 12th or

1st, 3rd, 7th, 8th and 12th.

The rhythmstructure is very similar to the “Solea”, but with a faster rhythm.

                                      "Alegrías" (Manolo Sanlúcar)

  http://youtu.be/BvzEtFKyYqA

"Alegrías"

(Gala Escuela Baile Flamenco, Fundación Cante de las Minas, La Union)

 

 

 

 

Why black?

¿Who said, that flamencoshoes are black?
Dare with some colour like the "Huelva" model from Ball Pilmar in pink leather and suede. With leather sole and nails for best sound, first class materials and improved insole for better confort ,
                                      this shoes fit your feet like a glove.

http://forflamenco.com/producto/zapato-flamenco-huelva-cordonera/

Abc of Flamenco
Antonio Gades
(Antonio Esteve Ródenas;  Elda, 1936 - Madrid, 2004)
Spanish dancer and choreographer.
First director of the Spanish National Ballet during three years, until he set up in 1981 a new company with the female dancer Cristina Hoyos. Together with her he participated as dancer and choreographer in several films of Carlos Saura: Bodas de sangre (1981), Carmen (1983) y El amor brujo (1986). Antonio Gades was one of the big renewer of flamenco dance, which he treated to take off the superficial to come back to its genuine essence. 

 

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