I couldn’t believe I would join a flamenco club and perform flamenco songs to audiences. But the truth is I love every minute of it

I am a retired man who decided to study flamenco guitar. The more I learn about flamenco, I see that it is a Chinese puzzle of wonders, with one thing leading to another through incredible passion and beauty. It is indeed a language!

I have learnt flamenco since 2008. When I was a student of classical guitar. I can't lie flamenco it's more absorbed in my soul than classical music.

what a kind, candid and clear way of explaining the beauty art of flamenco to non-flamenco audience! Ole, ole y ole!

I have autism, and because of the high creative improvisation scale flamenco dance provides, I was self-taught in it and I try to flamenco dance, emulating some of the great flamenco artists out there. Moreover - since I also have music training - long experience of composition, I was able to compose at least several original flamenco songs myself, even though I never had grown up in the area of Andalucia - the place where they say that flamenco started. I also know that there is also an Romany-gypsy side to the history of flamenco too - nomads who were kicked out of certain regions and forced to move someplace else several times but expressed their oppressions with guitars, singing, tapping, clapping (or "palmas") and arm movements that flamenco dance has today.

@JarredSalad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Charles :)

@alexandriatrenier7366

8 күн бұрын

That’s amazing

She communicates well the passion of flamenco and also the technical cues that dancers and musicians use to meet each other in their own frequency, and swim together!

When one's body language can ACTUALLY "spell" out the word, a perfect dance will be achieved within graceful calligraphy portrayed by The Artist. ☝️😇🤚

Few days ago I got to know about the history of roma people,there was mentioned flamenco dance is from this group of people who actually migrated from India. Now it seems quite true as she mentioned improvisation like jazz(but I think deliberately ignored Indian classical music or dance), it has emotive qualities too. If anyone has any other information,feel free to put light on it.

@jimmylee1776

Жыл бұрын

There are videos in KZread about flamenco & Indian music. Do a search in KZread. Gypsy people originated from Rajasthan, in north western India. They are nomadic people

That Gabriel Osuna doing the cante and awesome guitar accompaniment of the baile at the same time is really impressive! She's quite the dancer as well! OLE!

flamenco is a form of art combination of singers, dancers, percussionists, and guitarist. Just like a mini/ small orchestra.

@witoldnowak9327

2 жыл бұрын

Rather a small opera than just a small orchestra.

@redstar7292

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard it's from the gypsy tradition. It's aurally learnt. Its a number of set rhythms & then they just improvise it like jazz. That's how it's authentically performed. It is emotional though the way opera is..

I feel like I knew nothing about this beautiful and expressive dance and now...want to learn so much more!

Not many can sing and play flamenco guitar. Great performance by both. Olé!

Wow! I Just Started Flamenco Classes And I’m Seeing This, I Hope This Is Me In The Future!

@mimicc2

4 жыл бұрын

I have been doing Flamenco for 8 years and trust me it is sooooo worth it

Every time I see flamenco dancers, I wanna join them.

thanks so much for posting

Olé! This is hands down the best description to Flamenco! 👏🏼

A wonderful presentation,very valuable as I pursue my Flamenco journey.

Dance medicine!❤

Fantastische Tänzerin, wunderschöne Bewegungen, charmant, kreativ und exakt auf den Punkt, ebenso tolle Fußarbeit, perfekt! Oléééé!

great way to show what flamenco is...thank you!!!!!

I love flamengco music, and I salute to flamenco artist

Congrats Alice! Ole!

Great job! Both of you!

All folk dance,. Is. Community,. Love,. All communication

Having an appreciation for all kinds of music, all kinds of visual arts, and all kinds of dance . . . i already knew that flamenco is a type of communication . . . as all art forms are. But this day i learned the specific term " *subida* " which (i'm told) means "going up" or "increase the tempo." Jolly good show. I LUV to learn new stuff.

Thank you, Alice, for sharing your #fightsworthfighting on the TEDxFulbright stage!

Que bonitas alegrías! pedazo de guitarrista

Beautiful!

Nice! Thanks for the presentation!

Excellent presentation!

Loved this!!!

wonderful!!!! Ole!!

Great, Alice. Good job! :)

Beautiful

Sensational 🌹✨

*it's just so hypnotizing*

Brava!

My flamenco teacher from college always told me that the singer and guitarist are the main performers in any flamenco performance, not the dancer. Alice is a beautiful and dynamic dancer :-)

@luciamoir2641

6 жыл бұрын

In a cuadro flamenco with Dance, Cante and Guitar, as far as I know, yes is the dancer who leads...

@1AvW1

6 жыл бұрын

Your teacher is almost right: the foremost important person in flamenco percormances are (in Spain) the cantaores. Accompaniments can be done with any instruments from clapping, using knuckles, stamping, beating boxes, a piano, a violin or a flute, to a well sounding vase (tinaga). Or no accompaniment at all… A guitar is just an easy instrument because you can use is as a beatbox, a rithmes, play a solo. And it is easy to carry with you. I know… I'm one of these guitarerros - guitarplayers. Oh yes, and of course- since Sabicas and Paco we have the concert flamenco guitarerros ;)

@angela47u

5 жыл бұрын

That is your teacher's experience and opinion and interpretation. The dancer, to me, adds the essential element, with all being important in the "message" -- the language of the flamenco spirit.

@davidrees7978

4 күн бұрын

@@angela47uall three have the spirit!

wonderfully educational!

I definitely hear the influence of Kathak here

Ted talk and dance! She is killin it

Y la gente no aplaudió cuando dijo they are languages that are worth fighting for

Ooooleee to you with this Alegria! :)

¡Qué duende!

Bravo Alice!

BEAUTIFUL! AWESOME! OLE MORENA! ASI BELLA!

Arsaaaaa!!!

Viva el Flamenco. Viva España 🇪🇦

Very nice

Очень техничная девушка

He should of play without her dancing so she would’ve take a break and catch her breath, just an opinion. But overall it was beautiful!!!🙏🏻✨🎶

@maribelpelayo7472

4 жыл бұрын

“Llamadas” and “subidas” that’s new to me, this’s so interesting! 💃✨

@dborg56

4 жыл бұрын

She is catching her breath during the slow periods!

@spacewolfcub

3 жыл бұрын

At the start of vid you can see they have a countdown timer. It’s a live presentation and they have (it seems) 15min for the entire thing.

freeform 🌹

North American flamenco right here

@balmytiger

2 жыл бұрын

And I don't mean it's bad, it just looks and sounds nothing like Andalucian Flamenco. Main thesis of the talk was very good 👍!

wow

100 percent Norwegian US background. But have full Flamenco dancer outfit. Do you have suggestions for good castanets?

You are CLASSY beautiful!!!!!!!!!! Thank you 🙏

there was a hint of a luau at the 3 minute mark. After this I would consider it an interpretation of various cultures she has studied over the years. I'd say it's more of the dance of what she takes as all humanity in it's ever so adaptive ways. The guitarist is very well versed in the jazz and flamenco style. His voice is wonderful. Her knowledge is quite outstanding though, I'm happy for them as artists. Although I was lost at the jabberwocky. Never read it but I'll take a look into it and update my thoughts on her take. Other than that it was a wonderful interpretation of what flamenco is it what used to be.

Indian dance is also language... So you are pure indian history

👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️

👍

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Castanet?

@richardhastings5860

2 ай бұрын

Castanets are used in more classical & folk forms.

In flamenco the dancers scowl a lot but here she’s just demonstrating too much smiling happiness..to be showing ‘passion’ which usually demonstrates anger for a reason or another usually love

@vymrdanejkralicek

6 жыл бұрын

The palo is alegrías, therefore the happiness. Look for farruca or soleá dance and you might find the passion and scowl, you're mentioning.

@martin87543

5 жыл бұрын

passion is not related to anger or love only, that's the stereotype she described a lot of people who's not into the flamenco art thinks of at the beginning of her speech. Flamenco is a very complex art.

the flamenco also represent the people of andalucia and their pain and the torture they went through after the fallen of their city the dances it contain a hidden messages and when muslims was banned from practicing their religion on actually the word olé some of the History scholars link the word to arabic word allah meaning god in arabic language and the origin name of flamenco came from the word فلاح منكوب ,"distressed peasant"

the singer must be spanish....the song is diferent with this acent

Flamenco is a Gypsy heart NOT Spanish heart!! 💙❤💚

@vanessasevilla9094

4 жыл бұрын

Both.

@tonyv9317

4 жыл бұрын

No

@josemanuellustresgomez2759

4 жыл бұрын

Falso. Solo el flamenco se da en España y gitanos hay en muchas partes del.mundo. Es la combinación, un lugar de incubación, España, y una simbiosis entre lo gitano y el resto de genialidades netamente españolas.

@IsabelRodriguez-gb7tu

3 жыл бұрын

Nope.

@sudestica

2 жыл бұрын

Si❤️Opre Roma. There is no flamenco without the Roma passion

Castanets

@musashidanmcgrath

2 жыл бұрын

Not a Flamenco instrument. You're confusing Spanish folk music with Gitano folk music(Flamenco)

@alt_4186

2 жыл бұрын

@@musashidanmcgrath Flamenco is spanish what are u talking about lmao

A genuine flamenco is born on the verge of denying life - every dance that takes place serves as the result of someone’s spiritual victory over the power of Thanatos, attraction to non-existence ... without this spear there is no flamenco! Do you have such a struggle on the verge of falling and flying? Are your bids so high, your own challenge? Well-off people cannot feel the taste of flamenco, it doesn’t tell them anything - except when to enter the musician)) but this is completely irrelevant.

@josemanuellustresgomez2759

4 жыл бұрын

Bla, bla, bla El flamenco es la vida y el desplante ante la vida, pueblo y pueblo. Los intelectuales sobran en el flamenco, son meros frikis que no conectan con el, pero se lo creen. La filosofía no conocerá nunca el flamenco. Bla, bla y bla.

@gc1282

3 жыл бұрын

🤨

@redstar7292

2 жыл бұрын

But this is the best flamenco! Its the passion and anguish of the bull fight. The struggle..The Spanish see their lives in it somehow. .The singers sound like their being impaled & you can see it all in the movements of the dancers , the bull, the matador..the horses ...it's also their brand of anguishef Catholism. But i think she explained quite well though.

Is she Spanish though? It felt forced 🤷🏽‍♀️

@stopato5772

Жыл бұрын

Nah, she is well versed and natural.... if you know flamenco, on stage you do perform to express.

Esto no es flamenco...En una actuación flamenca nadie se duerme. Nadie. Principalmente, por que nadie habla.

@GabrielRDLGabi

3 жыл бұрын

No señora! Ella baile super bien y se acaso no te enterastes esto es una charla acerca de lo que es el flamenco, para guiris! Y esta estupendo! O sea, no se donde no se ve flamenco!

Morticia Addams is so much better.

too bad the college she worked for messing with her ~ see: (Fired Oberlin Prof lawsuit: Told “we can’t just hire another white woman from the Midwest with a husband” ~ Posted by William A. Jacobson ~ Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 8:00pm) they didn't know a good teacher!

¿Flamenco? No, no, no, that is gimns with a guitar tryng to sound as flamenco. No hay duende, no hay hondura, no hay gracia ni pellizco. En resumen NO HAY AGE!!

@ivanmartinez-jd8gi

3 жыл бұрын

Madre mía qué esquisitos son algunos... Flamenco es otra cosa es que sea perfecto

She dances so soft not with passion !!! It is not ballet !!

Doesn't have the passion of a true Spaniard!!

@alexbulerias

6 жыл бұрын

a true spaniard from where?...catalunya? Galicia? alicante?...

@dbee8477

4 жыл бұрын

Spaniards didn’t invent flamenco the Romani did

@alt_4186

2 жыл бұрын

@@dbee8477 Current flamenco has more influences, it's not just romani

@dbee8477

2 жыл бұрын

@@alt_4186 it’s a Romani dance clearly related to south Asian styles. And before you start arab music scales etc came from India brought by ROMANI.

@alt_4186

2 жыл бұрын

@@dbee8477 If you think current flamenco looks like an actual indian dance you're pretty much blind, in its origins flamenco might have been a romani dance, now it's a mixture between different cultures (also you can tell the singing has arabic influence)

She was brave to bring somebody to sing flamenco that poorly can pronounce Spanish lol

Really bad out of 'compas' singing. South Spanish and flamenco here.

I love flamengco music, and I salute to flamenco artist

Beautiful