Ready to deconstruct a bulerías pataíta with me?
Watch Luisa La Margara dance at the end of the video below.
(And if you thought you were too old to dance flamenco, think again.)
Ready to have some fun (and test your ear)?
Take a look below at one of the letras we’re dancing to in Beginning Bulerías right now.
Following that is a recording…
This is another letra por fandangos that Zorri shared with me.
Son de callar y sufrir
las penas y los sufrimientos…
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I’m pretty sure you’ll love the animation below to accompany this alegrías:
Alegrías
Navega por la bahía
sin que lo sepa la luna
Tientos
Traditional
Las campanas de Carmona
no tienen tan buen sonido
como tiene tu persona
Here's one more fandangos letra from Zorri.
Fandangos
Traditional
Dos niños de cinco y seis años
jugaban en un patio
y el más chico decía
Soleá
Traditional
Cualquiera que tiene pena
se le conoce en la cara
y a mí me ahogan las mias
y nadie me las pinchará*
Ok, so today’s letra is a bit intense.
I know you’ll love watching Olga Pericet and Marco Flores dance to it in the video to follow.
Abandolaos
Traditional
Creí morirme de pena
cuando yo dejé de verte
So you’re looking for a letra about love?
Here find many to choose from.
At the time of posting there are one hundred twenty one letras about love on this site.
Beware, not all of these letras are warm and fuzzy.
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Valentine’s Day is upon us,
so here’s a love letra for you today, and a video of Juan Talega singing it.
Soleá por Bulerías
Traditional
¿Por qué no te pones tú
a pensar en mi querer?
Porque yo de pensar en el tuyo
loquita me voy a volver
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Have you heard Manuel De Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Españoles?
In researching for this post, I discovered that today’s letra came from that piece.
Watch Javier Barón dance to it and Matilde Coral dance bulerías at the end.
In need of a little chuckle?
Then read on for today’s letra.
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do…
Did you know that siguiriyas is the style Mercedes Ruíz’s most enjoys dancing?
(That is one of the flamenco trivia questions you’ll be asked to answer in this quiz.)
Below you’ll find a list of letras from the siguiriyas or seguiriyas family.
Can you name all of the cantes de ida y vuelta?
These are flamenco styles that came into being through migration to Latin America then back to Spain.
Included are the Guajira, Colombiana, Rumba, Vidalita, and Milonga.
Bulerías
Traditional
Estoy por decir señores
Si al río yo me tirara
Saliera llena de flores
Want to get flamenco glamorous but don’t have a lot of time?
No problem.
It can be done.
Jaleos are calls of encouragement used in flamenco to cheer one another on.
We give jaleos to the dancer, the singer, the guitarist, to anybody participating.
Do you feel comfortable giving jaleos?
Because two hundred bulerías letras won’t suffice, here’s one more for you.
This one’s used at the end of another letra as a coletilla.