Five Flamenco Dance Videos for You to Enjoy

Simple Flamenco Marking Step with Pitos [Flamenco Dance Steps]

January 17, 2025

How are your pitos, finger snaps?

Here’s a simple tangos marcaje combination you can use to work on details like that as well as:⁣

Arm movements, coordination, hands, head placement, and hips.⁣

Watch the video tutorial here

Five More Flamenco Dance Videos

November 28, 2024

Below find five flamenco dance clips for your enjoyment.

No time to watch right now?

Bookmark this page to come back to when you’re in need of some flamenco inspiration.

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Learn This 12-Count Flamenco Abanico Move [Flamenco Dance Steps]

August 30, 2024

Practice your coordination and contratiempo with this flamenco dance step.

In the video tutorial I use the abanico, but you could also do this move playing palmas in lieu of the fan for the percussive parts.

Check it out here

Flamenco Footwork Tutorial por Tangos [Flamenco Dance Steps]

February 28, 2024

Here’s a flamenco footwork pattern por tangos for you to learn.

Use it as an exercise to improve your technique and rhythm, ⁣

or⁣…

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Palmas & Footwork Combo [Flamenco Dance Steps]

January 18, 2024

How often do you practice accompanying yourself with palmas while dancing?⁣

Namely while doing footwork.⁣

Use the combination below to work on your palmas and footwork coordination in the compás of 12.⁣

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Flamenco Contratiempo & Coordination Step [Flamenco Dance Steps]

October 4, 2023

Could you incorporate the flamenco step below into a dance?⁣

Use this tangos footwork pattern to:⁣ strengthen your contratiempo⁣, practice technique, coordinate palmas with footwork, or as part of a flamenco dance choreography.⁣

Learn the step here

Give it a try using the tutorial:

Make Some Noise with This Abanico Step [Flamenco Dance Steps]

August 24, 2023

Here’s a flamenco marking step that uses the abanico in a percussive way.⁣

We can create rhythms with the fan by tapping it against the body while open or closed.⁣

In this instance we have the fan open.⁣

Try This Flamenco Marcaje with Abanico | Flamenco Dance Steps

May 25, 2023

Fancy up a basic flamenco marcaje with this simple but pretty abanico movement.⁣

Below I show it to you in the 12-count compás, but you could adapt it to any rhythm.⁣

Take a peek at this tutorial video then see the notes to follow for additional support:

Try This Simple Tangos Combination [Flamenco Dance Steps]

January 10, 2023

Here’s a new tangos combination for you.

You may use it:

As the singer comes to the end of a line of the letra ⁣
When the singer takes a respiro, a pause⁣
Or simply as an exercise to practice coordinating contratiempo sounds with fluid body movements.⁣

Watch the video tutorial

Six Videos of Manolete

December 31, 2022

The great Manolete, Manuel Santiago Maya, passed away on September 12, 2022.

I have often wondered if the teacher with the bastón in that first flamenco video I saw that called me to this art form was Manolete, as he was so well known for his bastón…

In Manolete’s honor,

12-Count Flamenco Step Tutorial [Flamenco Dance Steps]

December 16, 2022

Ready to dance?

Below find another step to put with any palo in the rhythm of twelve.

Let’s learn it step by step:

12-Count Marcaje with Footwork [Flamenco Dance Steps]

November 27, 2022

Here’s a step that combines marking with footwork. ⁣

Use it with any palo in the rhythm of 12.⁣

Ready to try it? ⁣

Footwork & Palmas Combination [Flamenco Dance Steps]

November 24, 2022

Here’s an exercise n the compás of 8 you can use to practice coordinating footwork with palmas.

This one is also good for practicing beginning on the same foot you end on, which can be challenging as you build speed.⁣

Check it out here

12-Count Footwork Combination [Flamenco Dance Steps]

November 20, 2022

Here’s a flamenco footwork pattern in the compás of 12.⁣

Use this as practice exercise, or add it to a dance.⁣

The second part of the pattern is a remate, so this step would work well to close something in your dance.⁣

Learn This Tangos Step [Flamenco Dance Steps]

September 8, 2022

Ready to learn a simple remate por tangos?⁣?⁣

Use this remate to add a little flair to a choreography you already have,⁣ or ⁣
Put on some of your favorite tangos and do it over and over again as an exercise,⁣ or
Create your own dance and make this one of your steps.⁣

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25 More Flamenco Dance Videos You'll Love

April 29, 2021

Below find twenty five flamenco dance videos to help you pass the time flamenco style.

Some are longer while other are very short.

Either way there’s something for everybody.

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Drunkenness | The Weekly Letra

April 23, 2021

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.

Navega por la Bahía | The Weekly Letra

March 26, 2021

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

Me Duele | The Weekly Letra

September 28, 2018

Greetings from Jerez. I’m here on the Flamenco Tour, up to my ears in bulerías and loving it. So, here’s one for you today along with a video of Gema Moneo.

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