Thursday, November 12, 2009
A guitarist plays while a row of male singers and a lone woman sit in chairs, rhythmically clapping their hands — palmas — to the 12-count beat. One of the men begins passionately singing in Spanish. Slowly, the female soloist rises and begins to tap her feet lightening fast to the beat.
“She’s like a percussionist in dialogue with everyone. When she is moving, she is interpreting his lyrics,” says Michelle Hayes, professor of dance, of the famous flamenco dancer in the video, Eva La Yerbabuena.
Favorite stance: Elizabeth Villobos, Mexicali, Mexico, graduate student, has studied flamenco, a traditional, graceful Spanish dance, for years.
Hayes, who teaches the dance as a course at the University and at the Lawrence Arts Center every semester, says she is not nearly as talented as Yerbabuena, even though she has studied flamenco for 18 years in the U.S. and its country of origin, Spain.
Perfecting just the posture and arm and hand movements took years for Elizabeth Villalobos, Mexicali, Mexico, graduate student. However, Villalobos says she would have excelled at dancing the flamenco long ago if she had always had Hayes as her teacher.
If you’d rather look first and then learn, Noche Flamenca, a famous contemporary flamenco dance troupe, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lied Center. Hayes will also perform the flamenco the following Thursday and Friday at the same time and place as part of the University Dance Company’s fall concert.
Although learning to dance the flamenco well takes most dancers a decade, it’s clear by the look in Hayes’ eyes that learning the difficult dance is worth the time. “For me, it’s the perfect fusion of music and dance,” she says.
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