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Length: 79 minutes
Multisystem DVD, compatible with PAL and NTSC systems. Valid for use in any country.
'Folklore flamenco' illustrates the relationship between folklore and flamenco. Folk groups dance fandangos de Alosno and verdiales, and subsequently the flamencologist Antonio Mata explains the relationship between the verdial, the fandango, the 'cantes abandolados' (with guitar playing executed to the rhythmic pattern of the fandango) and the malagueña. In Jerez, Manolito Gero, José Vargas 'El Mono' and Loli 'La del Piti' dance bulerías during a gathering. Afterwards, the DVD features a visit to some workshops that are specialised in manufacturing clothes and footwear for flamenco dancing. Manuel Soto 'Sordera' talks about singing as an accompaniment for dancing, and of the soloist cantaor, whereas Regla Ortega explains the use of women's accessories like the mantón (shawl) and castanets. Pilar López uses her experience as a bailaora/dancer to talk about castanets, the fan, the mantón and the tailed gown. To finish off this chapter, Carmen Casarrubio performs a flamenco 'recitao'.
The protagonist of the second part, called 'Del Campo a la Academia' (From the Countryside to the Academy), is the great dance master Enrique El Cojo, who delights us with his alegrías and martinetes.
The bailaora Flora Albaicín ends the DVD with her version of flamenco dancing as a teacher in her own dance school, dancing the taranto, liviana-farruca and caracoles.
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