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Emmy Grimm, known by her stage name La Emi is a professional Flamenco dancer and native to New Mexico who performs as well as teaches Flamenco in Santa Fe. She continues studying her art by traveling to Spain to work intensively with Carmela Greco and La Popi, as well as José Galván, Juana Amaya, Yolanda Heredia, Ivan Vargas Heredia, Torombo ...
Her training included mastering all branches of this dance: the bolero school, the folkloric, the classical, the stylized, and the flamenco dance. Her contribution was the "innovative idea of introducing castanets into dance, with Italian and Spanish baroque music", [1] an idea that she derived from her work with Domingo José Samperio, who invented "concerted crotalogy".
Jun. 14—Each June, a spotlight is on Albuquerque. For the past 37 years, Festival Flamenco Alburquerque has brought world-class flamenco to the area for enrichment. This year, it's no different.
In 1992 she founded the National Institute of Flamenco, and in 2010 founded the Tierra Adentro charter school in Albuquerque, NM, focused on the arts and culture of New Mexico. Enciñias also produced and directed dance performances with her company, Ritmo Flamenco, during the 1970s and 1980.
UNM began a flamenco concentration of study in 1990 and began a guest artist, guest professor program in 2012, where expert flamenco dancers and choreographers teach UNM students, according to Coy.
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The extent to which the discipline is practiced varies on the growth of general knowledge of the Flamenco arts. Since the beginning, it has been the purpose of Flamencologists to diffuse the art both locally and abroad, and with the diffusion of the art later come the methods of documenting and researching the art thus putting Flamencology into practice.
The most common dance technique in mariachi is zapateado, translated to "tap dance" is a kind of footwork adopted from the Spanish Flamenco dance. It is a percussive rhythmic dance that follows a plant of foot followed by a heel tap then another foot plant, and continues on this pattern.