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Viernes con una Letra | Silencio (fandangos para bailar con Emilio)

¡Vamos a bailar unos fandangos con Emilio! Below, some fandangos from Pitingo’s Soulería.  And it happens to be the music Emilio will be using for the beginning coreografía class.  We still have spots available if you want to get in on the baile & palmas workshops next weekend… Silencio Más quiero hoy el fandango es [...]

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4 Simple Tips to Becoming Better at Flamenco

Ricardo was here this spring…in case you hadn’t heard.  He was constantly giving us tips during the workshops.  Many great tips.  I’ve shared some of them and I’ll surely share more. But perhaps just as helpful were the little phrases I heard him say over and over again. He didn’t really intend them as tips. [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | tangos

It’s tangos.  Tangos that we danced tonight in class…  We did this letra on Wednesday too. And everybody looked so happy when they were suddenly dancing to cante. Because there’s just something about dancing to the cante.  Marcandolo, rematandolo.  Simply put, It’s fun. After class some started asking questions, “What was that song?”  So, here [...]

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Before, During, and After

A lot of things go through my head around workshop time, which can drive me kind of crazy. So, to help deal with overwhelm that comes about before, during & after a workshop with a fabulously amazing artist I try to remember that there are certain things I can do to make it easier…   Antes [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Fandangos

I asked Emilio, who is coming here very very very soon, to give me a favorite letra.  He couldn’t decide.  ”Fandangos,”  he said, any and all.  (I LOVED the fandangos he taught us last year.) So, I want you to see this video.  Arcángel, cantando por fandangos.  I saw him perform them live, and oh [...]

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A Show That Isn’t a Show

As you know, one of my most favorite things when taking a workshop is the energy it provides.  It is what led me to start this business. But the watching is wonderful too. Because sure, as students we dance, (A LOT, I know, that’s what we’re there to do) but we are given little private performances [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | bulerías (…por soleá)

In honor of more bulerías starting in May… Bulerías José Soto Barea Me pongo a comer y no como me acuerdo de tus acciones y con la comida me ahogo. I go to eat and I don’t eat I remember what you did And the food suffocates me. I’ve heard this sung as a bulerías [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | más tientos

Last week I told you we would have more tientos today, so here you go… Tientos Camarón de la Isla Cuantas veces yo he pensado que el mundo es una mentira cuantos quisieran tener pá comer lo que otros tiran How often I have thought that the world is a lie How many would like to have [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | Tientos de El Mellizo

If you know me, you know that I absolutely love tientos.  Someday I will tell you the story of Ricardo’s refusal, after much begging, to teach me tientos, but not today. I have loved this palo from the first time I heard it.  And this tientos has perhaps my favorite estribillo of all time.  It is [...]

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Congelada

I wrote this one night last week, Thursday or Friday I believe.  One night when I started freaking out and wanting to run away because we were having another show.  I decided to wait until the the next day to publish it.  The next day came and I didn’t.  So, I’m posting it now, after [...]

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