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Check out this alegrías by Patricia Guerrero from the 30th Nîmes Flamenco Festival;
Wow!
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Below watch Ivan Vargas, one of our teachers on the Flamenco Tour to Granada, dance por alegrías.
(You will love this.)
Here’s a Bulerías de Cádiz followed by a video of Paloma Fantova at seven years old. (I’m pretty sure you’ll be blown away by how well she dances.)
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This was one of those difficult translations. It's a juguetillo (coletilla por cantiñas) and a video of Estrella Morente live:
Cantiñas/Alegrías
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Qué mandilón, mandilón
Que de cabeza a cabeza
Me meto yo en el pilón
A facebook follower from Cádiz told me that this basically means:
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The other day my friend David posted a snippet of the video below to my Facebook wall. It's from the 2013 Fiesta de la Bulería, and you'll see Triana dancing when she was even younger (so great!) along with a lot of strong women doing their flamenco thing.
Let's start with this:
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Sometimes you want to know a song to go along with the dance form you're studying in class. Other times you want to know the words to that particular flamenco song you like so much. And sometimes you long to know what those words mean.
I'd like to help you with that
Here you'll find a collection of letras (flamenco verses) organized by palo (flamenco form.)
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Cantiñas. We danced por cantiñas with Emilio. We've seen the first letra.
And a second one too.
And now here is a coletilla, un estribillo.
Que me lo tienes que dar,
que me lo tienes que dar
El tacón de la bota,
que para taconear.
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Cantiñas from Miguel Poveda's Casa Pavón, which we danced to last weekend with Emilio. Here is the second letra...
Las cautivaba el mes de enero
A todas las flores del año
Las cautiva el mes de enero
Y llegando al mes de abril
Salían de su cautiverio.
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Cantiñas con abanico. That is what we're doing in one of the workshops with Emilio this weekend.
And I am inspired beyond belief.
We're dancing to Miguel Poveda's Casa Pavón. Here is the first letra...
Donde están los colegiales
Plazoletilla del Rey
donde están los colegiales
al punto de la oración
unos entran y otros salen.
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