Interesting thinks about Flamenco

I'm going to explain 3 different thinks of Flamenco

Tango

It is a basic palo of flamenco with various modalities suchs as Badajoz, Triana, Cadiz, Jerez and Malaga.
The compass of tango is 1 2 3 4
In this video you can see a Tango of Triana.

 

An important instrument

The palms are little know as instrument but can be  as important as the guitar, the palms also serve as accompaniment and you can dance or sing only with this.
You can play the palms deaf or strong(natural)

They can lead to time and setbback.
It is to time if the palm is at the same time that music and setback if the beat of the music is first and the palm is then.
In this video you can see the palmes in time and setback.



An important flamenco dancer 

Joaquin Cortes is a flamenco dancer, choreographer, director and producer.
When he was 12 he started being a ballet dancer, but he just being a flamenco dancer when he was offered to go dancing in a theather when he was 19.
That was how Joaquin Cortes started forming a flamenco dancer.

Now, in this video you can see a Flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes

The art and the instrument

The flamenco. They people say it is an art, the experts say it was born in Andalucia in the middle of the XIX century, although some people think, that it is a lot older, and has Arabians and Indians origins.

Now I am going to explain that there are different types of Flamenco like the ``soleares, seguidillas, bulerías, etc...´´.

In this art there are flamenco dancer, like Joaquin Cortés, guitar players, like Paco de Lucía. and also flamenco singers like Pepe de Marchena.

With time the flamenco has changed and has fusioned with other kind of music like the Rock of Ketama.

And here you have a photo of Joaquin Cortes dancing:

A very important instrument specially for the flamenco dancer of Sevillana are the castanets. It is a percussion instrument.

It is made of walnut wood, ebony wood, etc... against wood harder the better.

You play them with your fingers hitting each other, and like, the wikipedia says: `` is known to the Phoenicians 3000 years ago´´.

One of the best that played the castanets was Carmen Amaya, flamenco singer and flamenco dancer. 

Here you have a video of Carmen Amaya dancing flamenco with castanets:

 

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Something About Flamenco

I'm going to explain 3 different things about flamenco dance.

The most important flamenco form

The alegrias are the most important flamenco form in the "cantiñas", because it's the more sing by the flamenco singers and most celebrate by the public when they listen to it. Its name is considering that it encourages fun and floric. They are folk very populate in Cadiz and in Los Puertos.
The rhythm of the alegrias is that one: 1 2 [3] 4 5 [6] 7 [8] 9 [10] 11 [12]

An Indispensable Instrument 

The flamenco shoes are an important part of the flamenco dance, the flamenco costume and the flamenco music. the tap-dance of the flamenco dancer is a part of the rithmy of the flamenco music. they are spacially made for flamenco dancers.

A Flamenco Dancer With a Lot of Art

Sara Pereira Baras was born on the 25th of April of 1971 in Cadiz. Her mother was a flamenco teacher and opened an academy when Sara was 8 years old, and her mother was her teacher of flamenco. When Sara was 10, she was in a group called "Los Niños De La Tertulia Flamenca". That group travelled arround Andalusia acting for the people, she danced for the old queen Sofia, too. That was how Sara Baras started forming like a flamenco dancer.

Here you have a video where you can see Sara Baras dancing alegrias, here you can see the importance of the flamenco shoes.

Here you have other video of Sara Baras dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag5iBaS1JhI