SUNDAY 12:00-1:00PM

April 11th - May 16th

Come to the park with your marcajes and remates ready! We’ll warm up with palmas, singing, and improvisation to shorter sequences. Most of the hour will be spent in the improv circle, we’ll get in as many rounds as we can!

All participants are expected to wear masks and setup 6ft. apart.

Location: Outdoors in SE Portland (Address provided upon registration)

100% of registration funds raised by this class will go to reopening Espacio Flamenco Studio when safe.

SUNDAY 4:30-5:30PM

April 11th - May 16th

A mantón (large shawl) is an extension of a dancer's lines, bringing focus to alignment and posture. Learn basic technique for dancing with a mantón, and improve your braceo while strengthening your upper body.

Due to limitations with space, we will not work on overhead tricks.

We'll learn various llamadas, marcajes, and remates to dance bulerias with manton!

MONDAY 6:00-7:00PM

March 29th - May 17th

Our work with Solea por Bulerias and Garrotin continues this Spring. We’ll add to our accompaniment material for SxB (llamada, falseta, and cante accompaniment) and we’ll keep working on (and maybe finish?!) our Sabicas’ Garrotin.

TUESDAY 5:30-6:30PM

March 30th - May 18th

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Reduce, reuse, and recycle… words to live by not just for our planet but also for bulerias improvisation! This session we’ll reuse the best of the marcajes, remates, and llamadas learned in our previous ZOOM classes as we put together new sequences with different letra material.

This Spring we’ll start each class working with palmas technique and learning new palmas patterns.

New dancers are welcome to join this class, previous experience with Bulerias is required.

TUESDAY 6:30-7:30PM

March 30th - May 18th

Remates!!! This spring we’ll work with the transition out of the falseta and the letras that follow. In this section of our SxB the intensity increases and our baile will include more remates and remates of a more percussive nature.

The beginning of class will be devoted to footwork exercises that will develop into an escobilla.

We will run material from the Winter session once at the end of class so new dancers are welcome to join and can start fresh with the Spring session.

​WEDNESDAY 5:00-5:55PM​

March 31st - May 19th

The Advanced Beginning class will continue to work with Solea material from the Barcelona based bailaor and choreographer David Romero.

Each class will start with braceo technique and footwork/rhythm studies, this session our footwork studies will change as we begin to develop original material for our Solea escobilla. And finally(!) we’ll run all four Sevillanas as part of our warm up.

WEDNESDAY 6:00-6:55PM​

March 31st - May 19th

Come learn about the beautiful art of flamenco guitar! In this fun introductory class students will learn about right and left hand techniques and will learn material for two different palos (styles) of flamenco, Rumbas and Solea.

Nylon string guitar is required for this class. Previous experience with guitar and basic chord knowledge is helpful.

WEDNESDAY 6:00-7:00PM

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THURSDAY 10:00-11:00AM

This Spring, we’ll start the first letra of our Garrotin with hat!

Garrotin is a festive, 4-count palo with a catchy chorus developed in Asturias, northern Spain. It all but disappeared in the 1930s, but was revived by dancer, Carmen Amaya in the 1970s. The letras are usually satirical with the sole purpose of amusing the listeners.

First half of class will be dedicated to technique - body, footwork, vueltas...

WEDNESDAY 7:00-7:55PM​

March 31st - May 19th

A beginning flamenco dance class that focuses on technique including colocacion (body positioning), braceo (arm movement), footwork, marcajes (marking steps), weight changes, vueltas (turns), palmas (clapping), and jaleos (shouts!).

This session we’ll learn the section half of the Tangos al Titi choreography. New dancers are welcome to join! We will run the first half of the Tangos choreography and Sevillanas at the end of class.

THURSDAY 5:00-6:00PM

April 1st - May 20th

The class will focus on body technique (braceo, vueltas, strength, and coordination) and short footwork drills. As always we will build up a series of marcajes, but we will also learn a little snippet of choreography por tangos in the second half of the session – it’ll be simple and fun!

THURSDAY 6:00-7:00PM

April 1st - May 20th

​(No class April 15th)

In the session we'll continue working on the first letra and falseta of "La Gran Faena".

Ricardo Lopez's choreography is more modern and not footwork heavy. The body is the star with lyrical marking that requires release/breath.

First half of class will be dedicated to technique - body, footwork, vueltas...