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Flamenco Dance

• How to Master Flamenco Rhythm: The Compas Clock
  One of the hardest things about flamenco dance - apart from achieving speed and accuracy in your footwork - is mastering the comps (rhythm). Even in a simple dance like the Sevillanas, the way the dance...
• What is Flamenco?
  What is flamenco? Some might say, why do you need to ask? Well, when I performed flamenco, I got to the stage where if I was asked what I did, I'd say
• Flamenco Steps - Basic Footwork
  The defining image of flamenco is the male flamenco star, spine held proudly with shoulders back, as his feet flash in impossibly fast footwork...
• Flamenco Palmas - Two Hands Clapping
  In flamenco, your hands are an instrument, just as much as the guitar or the cajon. As a dancer, you should never sit passively while others perform - your palmas (hand clapping) is important for the dancers...
• Flamenco - Sevillanas Paso a Paso
  The Sevillanas is unusual amongst flamenco dances because it is always choreographed. See below for the sevillanas step by step..
• Flamenco - the Bata de Cola Kick
  The bata de cola is a dress with a train. And the bata de cola kick causes more trouble for dancers than any other aspect of handling it.
• Improve your life learning a sexy dance
  I know, you must be thinking how the heck is learning to dance going to improve my life? As if you didnt have enough things to do...

• A Musical Instrument is for Life
  From guitars to flutes to lutes to saxophones, this hub is a personal celebration of musical instruments, including the flamenco guitar.
• Spanish Flamenco Guitar
  Spanish Flamenco Guitar is not Spanish Classical Guitar.
• Flamenco Guitar Roots
  The roots of Flamenco Guitar Music run deep. Through Centuries of influence and cross-pollination from other musical cultures. Flamenco, like Jazz, is not a pure musical form. ..
• New Spanish Flamenco Guitar Music
  One of the great things about music is that its always changing. Always evolving. Incorporating influences from other musical styles, to morph into something new and unique. Nowhere is this more...
• Spanish guitar Heros
  Spanish Guitar Heros. Are there any? Absolutely! Although we generally think of "Guitar Heros" as being from the World of Rock, like Hendrix, Beck and Clapton, there is a innovative "crop" of new musicians...
• Recuerdos de la Alhambra--Tarrega's Guitar Masterpie...
  One of the most beautiful guitar pieces ever written, Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra utilizes tremolo technique to great effect.

The Cajon

• Cajon Drum
  Cajon drums are drums presently crafted out of wood, but the Cajon drums of yesteryear were in the form of simplistic boxes, tiny drawers from dressers or crates for fish. The actual term Cajon is...

Andalusia, home of flamenco

• Easter in Andalucia: Two celebrations, one day
  The Spanish and especially the Andalusians know how to celebrate holidays of any kind, and Easter is no exception.
• Andalucia - A Life Changing Experience
  In 2001, Dorte sold her house in Denmark and moved 3.000 kilometers away to a little Spanish village, Torrox, in Southern Spain where she had never been before...
• Cadiz, Spain - Land of Equestrian Art, Flamenco and Wine
  Equestrian art, flamenco and wine have made the province of Cadiz in Spain famous, but travelers should not overlook its other attractions - the coast of light and the time-honoured tradition of tapas bars.