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Castanets are also used by singers and dancers in the flamenco genre, especially in some subgenres of it (Siguiriya, and Fandango-influenced ones), and in other dances in Andalusia/South Spain, such as the Sevillanas folk dance and escuela bolera, a balletic dance form.
La Argentinita plays the castanets with orchestral accompaniment. El gaucho was a play based on the dramatic song "Cancionera" composed by Osmán Pérez Freire and released in Barcelona in 1929 by Compañía del Gramófono.
Modern flamenco is a highly technical dance style requiring years of study. The emphasis for both male and female performers is on lightning-fast footwork performed with absolute precision. In addition, the dancer may have to dance while using props such as castanets, canes, shawls and fans.
Sep. 4—Castanets will click on September weekends at several Santa Fe restaurants, a testament to flamenco's popularity in Northern New Mexico. It's easy to assume the distinctive Spanish dance ...
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), also known as La Argentina, [1] was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer who created the neoclassical style of Spanish dance. [2] She was widely regarded as one of the most famous Spanish dancers of the 20th century and was nicknamed the "Queen of the Castanets" and the "Flamenco Pavlova".
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".
flamenco dancer (male, female), as opposed to 'bailarin', which is any other dancer. baile flamenco dance; other (non-flamenco) types are referred to as 'danza' baile de mantón a dance with a shawl balanceo y vaivén swaying of the body and hips. Balanceo is gentle; vaiven is violent bamberas song form for swings bata de cola
Aragonese jota dancers. The jota (pronounced [1]) is a genre of music and the associated dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon.It varies by region, having a characteristic form in Aragon (where it is the most important [1]), Mallorca, Catalonia, León, Castile, Navarre, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia, La Rioja, Murcia and Eastern Andalusia.