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I have been accompanying dance classes for a couple of years, and it is the element of flamenco that I enjoy the most at the moment. I get ideas from a lot of different places, and I learn more at class then i do at home
do any of you have footage of yourself or others accompanying dance classes? I am interested in seeing peoples approach.
I keep everything pretty simple, most of the time I just play compas, or if its a choreography I tend to keep developing the same ideas and try not to improvise too much.. I usually only play falsetas if they are practicing a part that goes with a specific one.. but lately I have tried to experiment a little more in class, while still maintaining the theme
RE: footage of dance class accompaniment (in reply to marduk)
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I learn more at class then i do at home
I don't have any video footage, and the dancer whom I've most recently accompanied is in New Mexico for the summer.
I definitely learn new things when I accompany, though I'd say that what I learn through accompanying compliments what I learn from practicing at home.
Is there something in particular for which you are looking, apart from video footage?
RE: footage of dance class accompaniment (in reply to marduk)
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ORIGINAL: marduk
I keep everything pretty simple, most of the time I just play compas, or if its a choreography I tend to keep developing the same ideas and try not to improvise too much.. I usually only play falsetas if they are practicing a part that goes with a specific one.. but lately I have tried to experiment a little more in class, while still maintaining the theme
I had a similar development as well. What really opened my eyes (and completely professionalized my approach) was our first student performance. A singer was hired and for the first time i began to understand which parts of the choreography were accompanied by singing and which by falsetas. A lot of short in between rhythmic salvos suddenly made sense. After that performance i started to play cante melodies/chords were the cante was planed (fully integrating the dancers rhythmic comments) and on parts were falsetas were planed i played falsetas. Also it changed my ability to understand/place/support/initiate the various parts. In a lesson you first of all have to support the students and the teachers, but when levels raises you can totally copy a performance. So watch dance performances and study how the artists inspire each other and how they communicate (especially the dancers llamadas/body language) . Watch which move of the dancer invites the singer to join in, how the dancer moves during the cante and how (s)he transposes to the next chapter when the copla is over. Learn to recognize the llamadas and to know what comes next. Try to spot it in your class situation as well and to respond accordingly. Does the teacher have recordings of the choreography performed with or by others?
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