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Ricardo -> RE: Need suggestions for shows with just guitar+dancer (Feb. 22 2006 19:49:19)
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Think of it like this. The singer makes your job easier, but if you are dealing with a dancer that only knows her choreography, keep in mind that a letra of say Solea, is only 8-9 compases of the dance. If she can cut letras and focus on the rest of the dance where you do falsetas and escobilla type rhythms, it should be great. But if she can't you can do 2 things. Compose faletas that are the length of the letras needed, and play that where the letras go. Solea goes into Solea por bulerias typically so you need something there too, and for bulerias at the end. For the bulerias de Cadiz for example, I made a falseta that is based on the melody of the cante, yet is still driving rhythmically.
The other safe thing to do, is simply play the chords for the missing cante during the letra sections, embelishing and doing interesting rhythms as much as possible. This is good for just incase a singer does show up or happens to be there, you have the skeleton of the dance worked out. Musically this is not so interesting, but in my experience the audience doesn't mind. Chordal strumming alone luckily is pretty interesting in flamenco. I have done both ways w/no singer there. Ideally the dancer can deal with you just doing falsetas of any length you choose for where the letra should go. Whatever you do, don't bore yourselves simply because you have no singer, but keep in mind the structure.
Ricardo
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