So I moved to Ohio. Not to one of the major cities here…I moved just north of Amish Country—to Oberlin, Ohio. There are horse & buggy parking spots at the Wal-Mart down the road. Endless cornfields—so many cornfields! With [...]
Alcalá de Guadaira is a town just outside of Sevilla. I've been wanting to go there since the fall, when I learned to sing a specific song in flamenco from there, the Soleá de Alcalá. There are many different types [...]
Nor am I referring to a snack food....Fandangos FlamencosI used to think fandangos was a lesser rhythm in flamenco since I preferred the heavier palos like seguiriya and soleá. But I've come to love fandangos, and it is a rhythm with many [...]
In flamenco, there are many different rhythms, known as palos. Within each palo, there can be many variations. This is knowledge that I have found to be lacking in the United States, and something that can really only be understood [...]
"El mar me enseñó a bailar" --Carmen Amaya (one of the best flamenco dancers ever and foundational figures in flamenco) said, " The sea taught me to dance." My guess would be that in some way [...]
In Rosario’s workshop that I took last week, I had a bit of a revelation about the rhythm in flamenco called martinete. This palo (rhythm) is one of my favorites, although not the easiest to understand as far as the [...]
