Lemons, anyone?
Here’s a bulerías letra for you.
Amargas son mis comidas
limones por la mañana
limones al mediodía
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Lemons, anyone?
Here’s a bulerías letra for you.
Amargas son mis comidas
limones por la mañana
limones al mediodía
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Here’s a bulerías letra and a video you’ll love of Encarna Anillo.
Mira sí te quiero yo,
que por ti sería capaz
de sufrir la Inquisición
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Do you love a good fin de fiesta?
Me too.
Here’s the letra you’ll hear in the fin de fiesta clip below.
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Do you need another laugh?
The following letra comes from renowned flamencologist Estela Zatania in response to this one.
She notes that both verses are cases of how “flamenco makes light of tragedy.”
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Looking for bulerías music to practice your ‘dancing with the cante’ skills with?
I’ve got you covered!
The video below offers you over eight minutes of bulerías music, including several letras, to practice to.
Wondering how to dance to the cante?
I have some ideas for you.
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Looking for a letra that will give you a laugh?
Here you go:
Bulerías
Quiero que me compres, por Dios
una camisita que siquiera
me tape la barriguita
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I heard you like it when I deconstruct dances to help make sense of how flamenco dance works, so that’s what I’m doing today.
Below watch Zorri, The Ambassador of Happiness, show off some of his flamenco dance moves during bulerías class with Ana María López on the Flamenco Tour to Jerez a few years ago.
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Here’s a video of Carmen Herrera dancing at Viernes Flamenco back in 2013.
This is a coletila José Mijita sings to her:
Dice que tiene
la novia nueva…
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Here watch Carmen Herrera and José Mijita doing a concert from home during the 2020 lockdown in Spain.
Here’s one of the letras you’ll hear:
Bulerías
Me ha costao un dineral…
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As February approaches it seems like good time to start talking about love!
Here’s a letra por bulerías that I think you’ll enjoy.
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Bulerías
Traditional
Qué chaquetilla más chula
Qué bonito lleva el corte
Dime con el pensamiento…
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Below you can see something Esther was teaching us in bulerías class last week on the Flamenco Tour to Jerez.
You will love it.
Here is the last letra Momo Moneo sings for her:
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How well do you understand the structure of bulerías?
Below you’ll find a priceless video from this year’s Fiesta de la Bulería in Jerez.
I’ll deconstruct a couple of the dances and let you do the rest.
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Feel like dancing bulerías?
You can do so with the video below.
But first, here’s one of the letras you’ll hear:
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Ready to groove to bulerías?
You won’t be able to hold back from playing palmas along with this video of El Londro at the Centro Cultural Flamenco Don Antonio Chacón in Jerez…
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Are you tired of picking apart bulerías yet?
In the video below, Juan Garrido talks about how flamenco can be found anywhere and everywhere in Jerez.
He and the others then demonstrate traditional bulerías in its pure and spontaneous form.
I challenge you to watch and identify all of the parts of his dance.
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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.)
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