How To Use Flamenco In A Sentence

To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces. Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
In the early development of flamenco, the rhythm work was done in bare feet, so for me, the footwork is somewhat comparable to American Indian dance.
Kleiber even goes so far as to move the last act's entr'acte right into the middle of the choruses which open that act, providing the flamenco dancers with another opportunity to strut their stuff.
I compiled a bunch of recent flamenco things, really oddball flamenco things.
We get an occasional article or news item written about us and go for months without a word about what is happening in the world of Spanish dance and flamenco.

The pairing of a veteran Cuban pianist with one of the rising stars of flamenco on a selection of Cuban and other Latin American standards seems to be a case in point.
There's betrayal, murder, raucous feasts, flamenco dancing and the occasional talking tree.
Dressed in traditional costume, this is an opportunity to show off their horses and horsemanship, to call on friends, to dance flamenco, to eat, drink and be merry.
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
He keeps wandering into minor subplots, about a flamenco dancer and a dancing doctors demonstration.
There are different styles or ‘palos’ within flamenco, which have generic names such as seguiriyas, soleares, alegrias, malagueñas, fandangos, rondeñas, bulerias…
In your acknowledgments, you not only thank your teachers in flamenco, but also the astonishing guitarists who elucidated and inspired you. A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
And Antonio spent one portion of his life transforming a rocky hillside in Barcelona into a labyrinth of walkways, serpentine retaining walls, small ovalesque grottoes, a typography of earth and mind, a physical rendering of flamenco patterns, flying lines, and planes kerned in kinetic chthonic exclamations! The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The company's style is contemporary Spanish dance, rather than pure flamenco - full of jazzy sinuosity, syncopation and angles.
Dinner guests will also be entertained by flamenco and paso doble dances, two renowned Spanish cultural performances that begin at 6:30 pm throughout the buffet promotion.
We find this quality in jazz and tap as well as in Euro-Afro dance forms such as flamenco and in world forms from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
Some compared the quebradita dancing style to the Mexican equivalent of dirty dancing, others as a mixture of lambada, cumbia, salsa, flamenco, tango, and the Texas two-step.
I swing where I used to flamenco.
The San Francisco Dance Center offers classes in ballet, flamenco, hip-hop, modem, tap, jazz, Brazilian, lambada, body alignment, and body work.
Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
It is here that the Latin spirit is set free and one can imagine the Flamenco-flavoured dance clubs of London pulsating with the sound of the Trio this summer.
Some compared the quebradita dancing style to the Mexican equivalent of dirty dancing, others as a mixture of lambada, cumbia, salsa, flamenco, tango, and the Texas two-step.
Show-stopping Irish dance leads into passionate flamenco and red-hot salsa routines.
For 10 days, this town is inundated with cultural activities, of which dance is a big part, from classical ballet to flamenco.
At first I think it is Portuguese fado; then I realize it is flamenco, which is also characterized by passion and profound sadness. Excerpt: By The Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Led by Souhair herself - she goes by the one name only - the troupe stomps, shakes and wiggles its way through a veil dance, folk pieces from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, a couple of flamenco numbers and the ubiquitous belly dance.
Some of these dance forms, such as flamenco and hula are almost as known and loved by local audiences as are the Western dances of ballet and tap.
I chose flamenco thinking it was the embodiment of wild, anarchic abandonment built on unstructured improvisational outpourings and learned that el arte is as strictly regimented as haiku. A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
He spent one year there performing flamenco, jazz, and Latino dances in clubs and restaurants.
‘What attracts me to flamenco, is something to do with your soul, your makeup, what stirs you,’ she explains.
She sings fado classics, original tunes, and experiments with flamenco influences, blending it all in a fresh approach that pushes fado further, without breaking its conventions.
One of them told me, `We play flamenco guitar at los fascistos. THE WHITE DOVE
If you haven't investigated Latin folk, flamenco or jazz guitar before, this group is a wonderfully pure introduction.
It's been referred to as world music, flamenco, Spanish guitar, folk, etc, so how would you categorise it?
He is a master of his style of flamenco and contemporary dance.
They receive training in classical ballet, but also take classes in flamenco, tai chi, modern, and other dance disciplines.
Lazily strummed blues to nervous flamenco in one short guitar solo.
There's something so extraordinary about the pride, the haughtiness, the explicit sensuality of flamenco which is so unBritish.
Some of the early rhododendrons are currently in full flamenco flamboyance, but the rare blue ones are still to show their best colors.
Opening as described, the lights came up to reveal los chicos in all their flamenco regalia, backed by singers and guitarists downstage.
I ran up the steps of the house, stripping off the flamenco shirt which hung on me like a three-toed sloth. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
This dance language is firmly anchored in flamenco.
Tracing a melodic line from flamenco to raga, it's a subtly modulated burst of Hindu-lusian passion.
Another major talent to emerge was Natalia, a Russian whose training in flamenco dancing brought a sensational fieriness to her performance.
She's a very good flamenco dancer.
It now offers twelve to fourteen classes a week to about seventy-five students in ballet, modern dance, hip-hop, and flamenco.
Portraying Down Mexico Way, this band boasted a Spanish influence with its fancy sailors wearing colourful sombreros and a section of female revellers in flamenco-styled costumes.
Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
Some highlights of the past week: Rocio Molina, new kind of flamenco diva, and NYCB's glorious return to Balanchine ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
In this showcase of the well known (but little understood) Latin dance form, we learn that flamenco is not just about castanets, señoritas in frilly gowns and fancy footwork.
Horner decided to use the music and sounds of flamenco dancing during the sword fights.
Flamenco meets break dance and hip-hop, with an all-male company of dancers and musicians. Times, Sunday Times
Emerging incrementally from individual clusters of endless ruffles, five women eventually twirl to full height as so many efflorescent flamenco dancers. A Pruned Garden of Delights
Show-stopping Irish dance leads into passionate flamenco and red-hot salsa routines.
Their music had been described as flamenco and Roma rhapsody meeting salsa funk. SofiaEcho RSS feed
Brilliantly passionate and incisive vocals over stunning arrangements on the borderline between jazz, classical and flamenco.
Born in Elda, he grew up in Madrid and was sent to a dance academy where he studied flamenco, bolero, and folk dance.
Another seductress might be the flamenco-dancing main character, Ronda Cari, of my new novel The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
With classical Persian music sounding in the background, he performed elements of flamenco, Persian, Indonesian, martial arts, Indian Kathakali dance, and strangely enough they all blended seamlessly with one another! Angella Nazarian: The Art of Seduction: Through the Eyes of an Artist -- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
The fusion of tap with flamenco, flamenco with Indian classical dance, or tap with Indian is not new in the experimentation of the foot cultures of the world.
The last snapshot she sent showed her standing in front of the cathedral in Barcelona, dressed like a flamenco dancer or some such thing. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
They are known for bright melodies, witty lyrics, and vigorous zapateados incorporating flamenco characteristics.
In case you don't know what that means, fado is to Portugal what flamenco is to Spain - the musical expression of a nation's soul - and is sometimes dubbed ‘the blues of Portugal’.
Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
Their dialectic is a reminder that flamenco is foremost an improvisational music, and in the hands of Morente and her collaborators remains a living, breathing tradition.
Born in Elda, he grew up in Madrid and was sent to a dance academy where he studied flamenco, bolero, and folk dance.
Beledo's World-Jazz acoustic work incorporates classic Uruguayan musical forms such as triste, milonga, chimarrita, and candombe rhythms, as well as Spanish flamenco styles. Press Release
Indeed the passionate singing, dancing, and playing of flamenco, which is an authentic form of expression in the gitano community, remains an exotic flavor for the rest of Spain. Modiba: From Spain's Storied South, Diverging Voices
As the nameless Senorita, Gitte Lindstrom deployed her pointes like a flamenco dancer's heels, hard against the floor, a contrast to the precise, skimming pointe work typical of Bournonville style.
Dinner guests will also be entertained by flamenco and paso doble dances, two renowned Spanish cultural performances that begin at 6:30 pm throughout the buffet promotion.
These classically trained ballet dancers transitioned entirely into flamenco catching the style, impulse and eclat of the genre.
Spain's ancient musical heritage includes bagpipe music in Galicia and Asturias, sardanas (circle dances) in Catalonia, flamenco dancing accompanied by the guitar in Andalusia, and the lively Aragonese dance called the jota.
Among the musicians in her Boston-based company, Boston Flamenco, is Fernando de Malaga, a flamenco singer who is the real thing - you can hear the lament in his voice.
Although they use traditional forms (farruca, siguiriyas, alegrias), they're a neo-flamenco group, creating contemporary innovations in the formal choreography and music.
I looked like a jobbing flamenco guitarist from a package resort hotel who'd thrown himself under a truck. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
How unfortunate, then that in highlighting the raw beauty of flamenco, Gatlif forgot include a credible plot.
He also stomped and slapped his bare feet with a wicked approximation of a flamenco performance.
The other daunting fact I learned about flamenco is that it is an insiders art. A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
Evolved over hundreds of years and combining various influences from the history of the region - Gypsy, Sephardic, Moorish, Byzantine, and Latin American - flamenco is best to watch at fairs, where locals, often the best traditional flamenco dancers, who learned from childhood by watching relatives, burst into clamorous performances of stomping and clapping. The Prague Post
Tomatito is one of the leaders of a movement that has been called flamenco nuevo, which combines Spanish flamenco guitar with other Latin forms. WeLove-music
Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist. Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows
His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals.
Flamenco is gypsy music, melded with Jewish and Arabic cadences - tantalising, vibrant and complex, occasionally haunting, dark and sorrowful, but always vivid and intense.
The musical art of flamenco has its genesis in the culture of the Gitano, and eventually emerged as a thriving part of Spanish culture today.
Women dance flamenco and tango and belly dancing.
Even my basic Spanish was sufficient to understand that this was a flamenco school.
Like the blues, born out of slavery, flamenco is more than music, it's an expression of Cortes's cultural heritage.
I think my type of flamenco fusion, which carries a more universal message, perhaps won't appeal as much to the Japanese as does traditional flamenco, which is closer to its [own] roots. The King Of Flamenco
Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
Flamenco, blues, calypsos, ballads, and a myriad other song forms have made their way into the consciousness of these people with the direct or indirect assistance of his endeavours.
After recording a set of her native Czech folk songs in 2002, Ms. Topferova went on to record three acclaimed albums of original compositions that drew upon such acoustic Latin American folkloric traditions as Cuban bolero, Spanish flamenco and Andes protest songs. Defying Her Own Language Barrier
Picasso frequently played flamenco on the weathered guitar - until the man who taught him how to play asked the artist to pay up for his services.
Performances are said to generate an atmosphere of drama and romance with a full-blooded blend of flamenco guitar and Greek bouzouki.
You do pick up a lot about flamenco as Webster learns guitar from intense Juan, who dresses in red and lives in a red apartment.
His acoustic guitar work is considered the standard by which all other flamenco players are now measured.
Kleiber even goes so far as to move the last act's entr'acte right into the middle of the choruses which open that act, providing the flamenco dancers with another opportunity to strut their stuff.
Their most eclectic record to date, Sea Of No Cares is the result of the quartet experimenting with flamenco guitars and mariachi trumpets.
Girls who take lyrical dance, such as flamenco, or character dance will often pull a long black skirt over their regulation leotard.
Some of these dance forms, such as flamenco and hula are almost as known and loved by local audiences as are the Western dances of ballet and tap.
Through Spanish classic court dancing, developing such dances as the bolero, cachucha, and the later gypsy flamenco tradition, there existed a vast culture of what can be called theatrical-style dance.
Pianist Cowley moved toward a more complex and subtle music with his Radio Silence album, a venture beginning with an almost free-improv speculativeness that turns into expansive, Bad Plus-like anthems, flamenco associations, and slowed-down funk. This week's new live music
Here Nitin Sawhney goes flamenco, Israel's Yasmin Levy sings in Ladino, the nearly-extinct language of the Sephardic Jews - and Salif Keita goes back to Mali and his Mandinka roots.
But I did laugh to think of Dane's halo slipping during the course of a flamenco dance with a daffodil. THE THORN BIRDS
You can still see the instruments being hand-crafted by the great-grandsons of the original proprietors and thanks to the recent rebirth of flamenco this rich musical culture lives on.
She is the production's profound gift, her dancing enhanced by the pleasing curves of her slightly rounded body, and by her face, which suggests simultaneously purity and duende, the mystery and darkness of another dance form, flamenco.
His eclectic work was written in 1945 and makes use of various styles such as cabaret, jazz and flamenco.
There are also two-days of intensive workshops in flamenco rhythms, singing, guitar, children's Spanish, rumba, castanette playing, men's flamenco and much more.
Elements of flamenco, indigenous folk music, and contemporary harmonic complexity run through Kaufman's work.
It mixes harmonious, romantic Cuban music and the passion of flamenco singing.
The virtuoso has further plans to explore ways of blending flamenco with classical music.
Their music was a mix of jazz, French musette, flamenco, and east European styles.
StudyGlobal offers flamenco courses throughout the year in Seville that focus on hand and arm technique, choreography, palmas (clapping), compas (rhythm), or cante (singing) (prices vary; studyglobal. net). Dancing the Trip Away
Canales is at ease within a flamenco vocabulary, but his choreographic forays into contemporary dance are sadly cliched.
Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
As the recitalist said, there are many kinds of dance: maypole, flamenco, ballet, to name but a few.
You can find masters of any form, be it ballet, capoeira, flamenco or lyrical jazz.
When models paraded down the catwalk in Dior's flamenco-style haute couture in Paris last week, fashion lovers here took notice.
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer MarÃa PagÃ©s, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
Another seductress might be the flamenco-dancing main character, Ronda Cari, of my new novel, Seeing Red. Claudia Ricci: Coincidences and Clairvoyance: The Mysteries of This Book Continue Unexplained
Flamenco meets break dance and hip-hop, with an all-male company of dancers and musicians. Times, Sunday Times
During the 1890s there was a vogue for things Spanish that encompassed everything from music and dancing to flamenco dresses.
While essentially a guide for students of Spanish dance, especially flamenco, the book proclaims the author's passion for his art.
He has since been a trailblazer in the production of flamenco and jazz fusion styles.
This is a spectacular extravaganza of flamenco, theatre, song and live stallions.
In this book, Tabios applies the methodology of making "eiswein," a German sweet wine, for extracting poems from her readings of Christian Hawkey's poetry collection The Book of Funnels and Sarah Bird's novel The Flamenco Academy. SPECIAL (ON) NOTA BENE EISWEIN
Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
I really must go by myself," she declared as they sat in the smoke-filled taverna, waiting for the second act of flamenco to begin. Claudia Ricci: So How Do Fiction Writers Fool Readers?
They come in expecting to see Mexican folk dance or flamenco.
A perfect finish to the night: flamenco dancing by a thrilling young dancer and music in a small club.
This name may change - fado, kwela, flamenco, gospel - but it's the same muse being courted. The Times Literary Supplement
Through Spanish classic court dancing, developing such dances as the bolero, cachucha, and the later gypsy flamenco tradition, there existed a vast culture of what can be called theatrical-style dance.
Inch by inch, the aerialist in the red flamenco outfit edges her way up a tightrope.
In a connotation that now seems to be everything but original, I have paired notes of carnation (chosen for the association of Spain, Flamenco and carnations) with sweet animalic base notes dominated by costus, which turned out fantastic even though a bit quirky and peculiar (costus will add peculiarity to any perfume with its animalic sensuality). Archive 2008-02-01
Some will return this year, not to perform but to check out the second iteration, which promises to be equally broad in scope, with performances of Spanish flamenco, South African gumboot, zapateo criollo, step dancing, and Samoan sasa - a call-and-response from that involves a lot of chanting and slapping the floor. East Bay Express
Learned to dance flamenco from a gypsy in Granada. Breakfast in Bed
Women dance flamenco and tango and belly dancing.
Music runs from funky flamenco to lively acid jazz, and the sheer glamour of the design will make you think you're in a movie.
I think we should do a mesh - like start with part of a flamenco dance then merge through a salsa into some ceroc - something REALLY fast.
In my performance in Buenos Aires, my repertoire will consist of pure classic flamenco art, such as soleares, malagueñas, granadinas, and la rosa.
We had flamenco dancing, traditional Irish music, ballads, jokes, you name it we did it.
Audiences looking to get their flamenco puro , as pure and traditional as possible — in the form of an intense, improvisatory, and mostly solo art of music, song and dance — won't find their expectations met here. A Broad View of Flamenco
That exhibition demonstrated the ways in which Spain's sartorial inheritance—the matador's embroidered bolero, the flounces of Flamenco, the lace veils of Catholicism, the stark outerwear of shepherds—had been absorbed and abstracted into Cristóbal Balenciaga's masterly and vastly influential Paris couture. Between Heaven and Earth
But the term fits because the pair's fierce guitar riffs feel powerfully electric, and because Rodrigo y Gabriela's rhythmic style showcases a frenetic strum that conjures the energy of flamenco. News
Flamenco now has modern influences such as blues, jazz and more recently rock, hip-hop or techno.
Sel was in a jonquil flamenco shirt and burnt-orange pants embroidered with bugle beads. MR STARLIGHT
The performance, as with flamenco guitar, provided the ‘duende’ that he considered the magic moment of the poem.
While they're used to working with an accompanist, in flamenco the relationship is more interactive.
Models in fiery red wigs wore adventurous layered outfits from which inspiration was drawn from her dual Jamaican/British heritage and musical styles such as dancehall, jazz and flamenco. Londonist
This track showcased Peart's finesse on the hi-hat and cymbals while Lee pulled out his unique flamenco bass playing chops.
Sel was in a jonquil flamenco shirt and burnt-orange pants embroidered with bugle beads. MR STARLIGHT
You can find masters of any form, be it ballet, capoeira, flamenco or lyrical jazz.
Music includes live flamenco and the food does a good job of matching the design: a delicious mix of modern tapas like chorizo tortillas and tasty fish and meat dishes.

How To Use Flamenco In A Sentence

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