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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)

 

 

 

 

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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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