Observation Essay: The Flamenco Dance Concert

The Flamenco dance performance I went to watch took place in a restaurant located inside Hotel Albuquerque. The restaurant has a very unique setting. The people can enjoy amazing flamenco dance performances while also have great Mexican food. The restaurant was fairly dark focusing all to the bright and colorful stage. There were total of five performers; the dancers were Tacha, Bailaoresevarez Encinias, & Giovanna Hinojos, the vocalist was Vicente Griego and the Guitarist was Calvin Hazen. The Flamenco performance was communally involved where performers cheered for one another and communicated through time, space and energy.

The performance started with a soft music played by the guitarist, then the lights came on projecting the faces of

vocalist, guitarist, and the dancers with their unique, beautiful flamenco clothes. The two women wore a heel shoes, one piece long skirts, jewelry, and a flower in their head.

The man wore a salmon color pants and a ironed black shirt. The three dancers sat on the chairs with their backs arched back with a soft smile on their faces, the vocalist sat with his mic pointing in front of him mouth, and the guitarist sat straight with his beautiful, shiny guitar resting on his one leg. All the dancer came on the centre of the stage one after another to perform their unique dances. One dancer stood out to me more than the other. Her name was Tatia. The room got quite. The guitarist played a soft beat music. The tempo of the music was slow. Together with the music, the dancer steps forwards in a sustain movement of her leg. As she walked, she slowly raised her both hands while snapping. Randomly, we can hear the vocalist syncopating with a slowly rising voice of his lyric. At the end, he screams at the top of his lungs. The vocalist and the other two dancers clapped and stump the ground loudly following the slow tempo. Everyone is in a slow rhythm syncopating the dancer’s move. The dancer taps the floor in a slow tempo while spinning her body, making shapes with her hands in a sustain motion. Suddenly the whole tempo changes with the guitarist changing

the melody of the music. There is a higher tempo now. The dancer taped the floor with high energy. There was loud noice around around the room: clapping, stumping and the vocalist singing g on top of his lungs, the guitarist also playing the guitar in high energy. The two dancer, sitting down said, “Ole” complimenting the high energy brought by the active dancer on the stage. The claps and the stomps also changes bringing a high energy in to the performance. The high energy comes to a stop as the musical slows the tempo and the dancer slows her movement into complete stop. At last she bows the audience with a big smile on her face.
The performance clearly was a social dance where there is cheering and yelling and a lot of syncopating happening. Everyone in the stage are participating and supporting one another as community. In the performance i can see team work where everyone has a part to play, if they all did not play their part this performance would not have worked. Therefore, in a community are different type of people with unique ideas and skills making the society function properly.