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Alarcon’s notation system includes three lines of percussion for three mechanisms of the foot: the top line, called “P” indicates the movement that he calls tip [punta in Spanish]; the “T” line is to indicate the movement he calls heel [tacón in Spanish]; and the bottom line is “PL” to indicate the movement called ball [planta in ...
Zapateo, which later produced the more famous Malambos dance, arrived in South America from Spain around the year 1600 CE and was a favorite pastime of the gaucho (descendants of Spanish conquistadores and aborigines) also known as the "South American cowboys", especially around the camp fires in the lonely stretches of the flatlands, known as ...
a song form which started as a street snail-vendor's song in Zarzuela (a popular Spanish form of operetta) cartageneras song form derived from the taranta, with a florid vocal line, more "artistic" and decorative than forceful and rough castañuelas castanets cejilla capotasto or capo, used by guitarists to raise tone of all strings; a ...
The choreography is quite simple: on its more frequent setting two male dancers face each other, dancing and tap-dancing one at a time, showing which has the most lightness and repertoire of feet changes in the tap-dancing. The dancers can be boy and girl, boy and boy (most frequent) or, rarely, two girls.
(Each number represents a beat. Blue squares mean weak beats, while big brown dots are strong beats.) Nevertheless, this is just an underlying structure, like a foundation, a kind of grid where flamenco artists creatively draw the rhythm by means of subdivisions, articulation, and less commonly, syncopation and accent displacement.
"Perreo," the name of the dance performed to the rhythm of the widely popular Latin urban genre reggaeton, which has deep roots in Puerto Rico, is officially a Spanish word.
Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using methods such as graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while others have been developed with ...
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