A flamenco dance for whose creation the bailaor Joaquín El Feo is responsible, according to some researchers. Generally speaking, it is a majestic and sober dance, with a great dramatic charge, and an accentuated ritualistic character. Rosa Durán is considered the great contemporary master of this palo (form).

This cante has coplas (poetic compositions, in verse, used as lyrics) with three or four eight-syllable verses which are generally followed by one or several three-verse choruses, whose measure is uniform. It is a relatively recent cante, subsequent to the style from which it proceeds, the tango, and with its same meter, although it is slower, apart from being more solemn and complicated. As well as deriving from tango, it also appears to have been influenced by certain nuances of the seguiriya and of the soleá. It is a cante that can be danced to, with lyrics that tend to be moving, sentimental and sententious. Among its early performers, Diego el Marrurro, Enrique el Mellizo, Don Antonio Chacón and Manolo Vargas stand out. Others who practiced this style were Aurelio de Cádiz, Antonio Mairena, Pastora Pavón, Pepe de La Matrona, Bernardo de los Lobitos, Manolo Caracol and Terremoto.