Shows at 18:00, 20:00 and 22:30 · Albaicín, 5 minutes from the Mirador de San Nicolás

Flamenco dance show in Granada

Bailaores and bailaoras in the line-up, three 60-minute shows a day and a room with only two rows: from any seat you see the footwork up close. The best flamenco in Granada.

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Footwork, arm work and the remate

What flamenco dance is

Flamenco dance rests on three things you learn to watch for as soon as someone points them out.

The zapateado is the foot marking the compás: it is not decoration, it is percussion. The dancer is as much a part of the music as the guitar.

The braceo is the opposite — the slow work of arms and hands, drawing shapes while the feet strike. That contrast between the upper half and the lower half is what makes flamenco unlike any other dance.

And the remate is the ending: the music stops dead, everyone at once (singing, guitar and dance), with no warning. When it lands, the silence that follows is half the effect.

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The bata de cola and the mantón

They are two tools, not two costumes. The bata de cola —the long-trained skirt— is handled with the feet, and making it turn without stepping on it is among the hardest things in the repertoire. The mantón, the fringed shawl, turns the arms into something far bigger than they are.

Both exist for the same purpose: to make the movement of the air visible. That is why they look better up close than in a photo.

What the flamenco dance show is like

  • 60 minutes, three shows a day: 18:00, 20:00 and 22:30

  • A different programme every week — the line-up changes and so does what is played

  • Live dance, singing and guitar, with palmas marking the compás

  • The room is laid out in a wide, open U, with only two rows

  • Inside a carmen in the Albaicín, five minutes from the Mirador de San Nicolás

Our bailaores and bailaoras

Our programme is different every week. It is not a fixed show that repeats itself: who performs changes, and so does what is played.

For those who come once, it means seeing a show that will never be repeated in the same way. For those who come back —and quite a few people do— it means the second visit is not the same as the first.

  • Antonio González · From the Ballet Nacional de España. He has danced with Antonio Gades, María Pagés and Manolete, and appears in Iberia, the film by Carlos Saura.
  • Luis de Luis · From Granada, from a Gypsy flamenco family. A disciple of Manolete and Mario Maya, he has danced alongside Eva Yerbabuena, Sara Baras and Javier Barón.
  • Raquel Heredia «La Repompa» · Niece of the legendary Enriqueta Reyes «La Repompa» of Málaga. She made her debut at fifteen in New York.

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Why tablao dance is not theatre dance

In a theatre the choreography is fixed: it is rehearsed and repeated the same way every night.

In a flamenco tablao it is not. The dancer and the musicians answer each other live — a call with the foot, the guitar picking it up, the singer deciding to stretch a line. That is why no two shows are alike, even with the same artists and the same palo.

It is also the reason it is danced a few metres from the audience and not twenty: they need to see each other’s faces for that to work.

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