Because one can never get enough of Rancapino Chico por tangos;
This is the first letra he sings in the video below:
Yo sé que tú me quieres con delirio…
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You know those songs you can listen to over and over again and never tire of?
This will be one of them.
It’s Rancapino Chico por tangos…
Check out, Irene “La Seranilla,” one of our teachers on the Flamenco Tour to Granada, dancing por soleá:
Check out the Ballet Nacional de España dancing to villancicos por bulerías in 2020.
(It may be impossible not to love this):
So you want to better understand how to dance bulerías with the cante?
I have an idea for you,
But first, here’s a letra.
(You can watch Carmen Herrera dance to this as José Mijita sings in the video to follow.)
Do you love a good fin de fiesta?
Me too.
Here’s the letra you’ll hear in the fin de fiesta clip below.
This was my very first performance with Ricardo, which wasn’t supposed to have happened.
It was March of 2010.
Ricardo López was coming to Portland to give workshops...
Need to get a flamenco look but don’t have a lot of time or the best set up?
Try this fifteen minute look
Want to get flamenco glamorous but don’t have a lot of time?
No problem.
It can be done.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Do you find yourself a bit lost when it comes to getting done up for a show?
Below get the skinny on the makeup I like wearing to perform flamenco.
I’ll start with my ideal situation. Then I’ll tell you what items I could go without if I felt like doing less or simply didn’t have all of these products.
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Does the idea of performing scare you to pieces?
You’re not alone.
Here I explore some fear I’ve been experiencing around an upcoming performance and eight steps I’ve taken (that you can take too) to prepare for a show when you don’t have an opportunity to rehearse in advance.
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When we were in Jerez we spent a lot of time at Tabanco El Pasaje watching flamenco. You can see shows there just about every afternoon and night. Below you can see a video of Juan Loreto dancing soleá por bulerías.
Soleá por Bulerías
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Qué pena tengo en el alma
se murió la madre mía
cuando se anunciaba el alba
What sorrow I feel in my soul
my mother died
when dawn came
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Today a letra,
a video of Rocío Molina dancing guajiras,
and four things I do to prepare for a show.
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I just returned home from Jerez, and naturally, I'm missing bulerías.
I have a letra to share with you today. It's one that David Lagos sang during our private show there, but before I do, I want to tell you a quick story.
It's one that Julie, a student on the Flamenco Tour, shared with me just before she departed Jerez.
On her last morning there, Julie took a final stroll around the city before she caught her train to Granada. On her way back to the apartments she found herself behind an older couple walking down the street. T
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As I mentioned last week, we've been studying caña here in Jerez on the Flamenco Tour (along with bulerías por su puesto). We learned from Mercedes that la caña has six ays (iis) while el polo has five.
For baile, that is.
And there is a set of ays in the middle of the letra and at the end.
For cante, it's more open.
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My niece is participating in the challenge with me. In part.
She loves flamenco and started taking regular classes this spring after taking a class with Ricardo in Santa Barbara.
“Do you want to do some of Mercedes’s exercises with me?” I asked her on Christmas Day.
She did.
She knew what to expect as she had sat through her class in Jerez a coupe of times. (My nieces spent some time with me and the group in Spain last spring, and Margot happily, patiently, and voluntarily sat through hours of class with Mercedes.)
“Are we going to do the one with the hands?” she asked me as she stretched her arms out imitating the exercise, this exercise.