How can you start to dance?
If you want to join in on the fun all you have to do is look up a dance studio in your community. To find one start of by searching for ballet folklorico dance studios in your town, usually a studio will have a web site or Facebook page. If that fails then visit the theaters in town and see if ballet folklorico dancers have perfumed there before and ask to know of the perforce schedules so that many you can catch them. Other wise there should be propaganda for them in you local news paper. Any one of these genres should help you find a dance group in your area. Once a group is found all you have to do is have fun dancing.
If you live in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area then a group you could join is BailaBaila!.
This is a wonderful group that is actually very popular, they even went to perform at the 2012 Olympics in London. This group is really wonderful and I will guarantee that you will have a blast with them while learning to dance.
If you live in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area then a group you could join is BailaBaila!.
This is a wonderful group that is actually very popular, they even went to perform at the 2012 Olympics in London. This group is really wonderful and I will guarantee that you will have a blast with them while learning to dance.
Speaking to dancers
Talking like dancer is no different from speaking like a normal person in real life but there is some vocabulary that would be nice to have going in as a beginer.
- Chassé- derived from the freanch word for chase, it is a step in which one foot followed the other.
- Zapateado- a specific step in baile folklorico that comes in three forms, heel, toe and flat.
- Counts- the pace or units dancers use to time them self and to measure the length of a step in time.
- Gritos (yells)- a shout that will get the audience and the dancers them self’s pump up for the performance. Gritos can involve a series or words like “echale _______” followed by the name of the person your cheering on. This “grito” is actually understood in a series of ways. It could either mean “ your doing good”, “good luck”, or “watch your step some things off”.
- Polka- can be either a form or dance that involves a substantial amount of foot work or a specific step that is like a waltz but a little faster a with a jump in it.