Flamenco Communication Intensive
with Marija Temo and guest dancer/teacher, Kerensa DeMars
(for all levels in Dance, Guitar, & Vocal, working separately & together)
The flamenco intensive focuses on working with different disciplines to enhance your abilities to lead, accompany, and to better support one another with feedback from M. Temo and K. DeMars
This year is designed for participants to be able to take one or more days. Different material will be taught each day.
Coaching sessions are a supportive environment for you to workshop parts of your dance solo, falseta, or letra with other students (dancers, guitarists, singers, palmeros) and the instructors. The goal of these sessions is to help you improve your performance communication skills with constructive and positive feedback.
(Best to arrange with other students if you want a 2 person or group coaching, or inquire with M. Temo if someone can be put with you. You may also sign up for an individual coaching where M. Temo will accompany via guitar and singing, and/or K. DeMars will dance for you.)
Email Marija Temo to register for your slot time. First come, first serve. Slot times are guaranteed with payment.
Workshops Workshops are for all levels (beginners to more experienced dancers). The material will be shown in a basic and more advanced version. (Students are welcome to record the material.)
Bamberas (Llamada, Letra, Escobilla, Salida) Separate Workshops for Dancers, Guitarists, and Singers
Application Workshop Combining Dancers, Guitarists, and Singers together.
The Bamberas or ‘Swing Songs’ are a flamenco adaption of Andalusian folk music. Originally sung in a fandangos style, Paco de Lucia reworked the Bamberas in the Solea por Buleria rhythm which is most commonly used today but with a different aire that’s more fluid, reminiscent of the swings….
Dance Technique Friday:
Footwork Drills and Building Escobillas. This technique class includes a series of footwork drills for stamina and musicality followed by phrasing patterns to create escobillas in 12 count palos. We’ll look specifically at how to create strong, musical footwork sections, how to extend or shorten a pattern and how to create patterns that work well for a guitarist to accompany.
Saturday:
Upper body movement and mantón technique. This class will include a series of drills focused on upper body control and using the torso to create more depth and power in your dancing. We’ll explore the dynamic torso movements that are unique to flamenco and how to cultivate the flexibility and strength needed to create those lines. We will also explore mantón work and how to engage the torso to complement this technique. BYO mantón if you have one, some will be provided.
Palmas (Technique & Application): Learn various styles of palmas, which include different patterns for accompaniment and how to create strong accents, and how to hold the body to prevent fatigue. We will also learn how to find musicality in your palmas, play supportively without rushing or overpowering what’s happening musically.
We’ll put our technique practice to the test accompanying falsetas, escobillas, llamadas and letras, and discuss how to get in and out of contra sections, how to listen to your fellow palmeros to stay in synch, and how to give jaleo while playing palmas.
Palos to be covered: Friday: Bulerias, Sat: Tientos/Tangos.
Jam sessionsFree time, without the instructors, to jam with other dancer, guitarist, and singer workshop participants.
Observation All workshops and coachings are open for an observation fee. (Observation is free for the days that you are registered for a workshop or coaching.)
August 25-27, 2022, Thurs- Sat
M. Temo Flamenco Communication Intensive, Milwaukee, WI
(all levels) Dance, Guitar, and Singing,
with Guest Dancer/Teacher, Kerensa DeMars
Discounted Pricing Extended !
Deadline for all payments Wed., 8/24/22
Jaleos workshops: Dance technique
Choreography
Guitar
Cante
Jaleo application (Dancers, Guitarists, & Singers combined)
As a group and individually try out the process with individual dancers, guitarists, and singers
Bulerias por fiesta application workshop (Different ways to Enter and Exit)- (all levels)- Dancers, Guitarists, & Singers combined
Dancers practice entering and exiting in different ways calling in singers. Singers practice entering with their own letra(s) & learn different types of Salidas/Estribillos in major and phrygian keys. Guitarists learn how to accompany with the proper chords and rhythmic aire (feel).
Newly Added: Tangos Workshop for Beginner Dancers, Guitarists, and Singers combined (A la carte) Learn to dance a few steps, a fun chorus verse, and basic accompaniment for dance and singers
Tablao coaching for three or more person groups, coached by M. Temo & K. DeMars (A la carte) Register by making payment for tablao session and contact M. Temo with the day and time of your choice offered below. First come, first serve. The dancer, singer or guitarist who signs up first chooses the palo for the session. Others are encouraged to join in to accompany, sing, dance or play palmas. Check the website regularly for updates on what will be covered in each tablao coaching. See schedule below.
$65/student. Fee, a la carte, in addition to workshop.
Time: 45 min.
5 tablao coaching sessions. See tablao sessions listed in the schedule below.
Observation available for a fee; however observation is free to those that sign up for a workshop.
Cuadro Coaching & Performances
This year’s intensive is an exciting opportunity for you to work on your communication skills with a group of singers, guitarists, dancers, and palmeros together. Known as a ‘cuadro’ in Flamenco performances, the cuadro groups will be coached together and perform together.
Each student will have the opportunity to work at their level as a performer or as a cuadro member in a support role with other participants. Students will be assigned to one of two cuadro groups of dancers, singers, and guitarists to work with for the three days. What will be addressed: Improving flamenco communication skills for any problem areas that surface, how to fix things on the fly, and support your fellow artists with good palmas, jaleo, and seco playing (muffled playing) . Besides working with each other, players, singers, and dancers in cuadro style will get to work with Marija and Kerensa. The intensive will culminate in a performance with two cuadro groups planning their set list and performing for each other.
Por Fiesta classes
In addition, a por fiesta class for all levels will be offerred. Por fiesta refers to fun, energetic group numbers in bulerias or tangos. Dancers perform a small series of movements accompanied with singing, guitar accompaniment, and palmas. In performance, dancers dance one after the other with various singers. Por Fiesta students are encouraged to participate in the fin de fiesta part of the Cuadro performances if they so wish with their own repertoire, performing the material taught in the por fiesta class, or participating with palmas. Por Fiesta students will be assigned a cuadro group for the fin de fiesta part of the performance.
Everyone will have an opportunity to participate in the performance if they wish. The performances will be recorded for your personal use following the intensive.
Juerga (Flamenco Party)
Sat. after the Cuadro Performances at the Church where the Intensive is being held.
Observe: Observation fees are for those persons not registering for the Cuadro coaching or Por Fiesta classes; otherwise all student registered may observe the Cuadro coaching and Por Fiesta classes for free.
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July 25, 2021: Deadline for performers to register and submit the following info to be part of a Cuadro Group. Email Marija Temo, info@marijatemo.com
Aug. 25, 2021: Deadline to register for the Por Fiesta classes or just Observe
Welcome to Marija Temo’s “Flamenco Communication Intensive” 8/27-8/30/20
This year’s intensive has been creatively designed via zoom (for all levels in dance, guitar, and singing), and will be co-taught with guest artist, Kerensa DeMars.
A specialized Interactive Workshop, created by Temo, (for Dancers, Guitarists, and Singers) on what is required from each of them to effectively communicate (interact, accompany, compliment, and improvise) with one another through a breakdown on the structure of flamenco dance and song forms. Sought after for her unique ability to teach all three of the flamenco genres (dance, guitar, and singing), Temo explains (through the use of graphic charts that she has devised) the underlying structure of complete flamenco dance and song forms, demonstrates important moments that need to be conveyed, and has participants try out the process. Her workshops were offered for 10 years consecutively at the University of New Mexico International Flamenco Festival, at the Toronto International Flamenco Festival, and reviewed in magazines such as Flamenco USA, Flamenco International (London, England), and Dance Magazine. Temo has traveled to many cities in the US offering her Communication Workshop helping flamenco communities develop their communication skills in how to work with guitarists, singers, and dancers. For more info on Marija Temo click here: http://www.marijatemo.com/marija-temo-biography/
Workshop Forms
Tangos de Triana, All levels (2 days) Thurs. & Fri, 8/27-28/20
(Day 1- letra in minor, Day 2- letra in phrygian)
Solea por Bulerias, Int- Adv. (2 days) Sat. & Sun. 8/29-30/20,
One letra (different structure type commonly used)
Each flamenco form includes the following:
Flamenco Structure Workshop
Breakdown of the structure, how to follow the letra, what to listen for, and options from a dance, guitar, and singing perspective
Dance Workshop
Guitar/Singing Workshop
Flamenco Communication Workshop
Application: Putting the material together with dancers, guitarists, and singers, and discussing the communication details.
Coaching
Pre-Registration deadline has been extended to Wed. 8/24/20, 8pm Central to receive a Prep Dance Video, Prep Guitar, and/or Cante Audio recording of the material to be taught in the intensive.
Registration Deadline for the Flamenco Intensive: Wed. 8/26/20 (8p.m. Central)
Friday, 8/28/20
Show: 7:00-7:45p.m. Central with Q & A after the show
Fee: $21
Open to everyone including non-workshop participants
(Click on headings for more info.)
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Juerga (Flamenco Party Online) Saturday, 8/29/20
7:00p.m. Central Free All about you! Connect with other flamencos, work through the flamenco communication process together and perform, or sit back and enjoy:-)
Open to everyone including non-workshop participants
Temo Flamenco Communication Bulerias intensive
for all levels in Dance, Guitar, and Singing
with guest professional dancers, Wendy Clinard and Kerensa DeMars
Learn the application process together in the same classes
Each day we will review and add new concepts
A specialized Interactive Workshop, created by Temo, (for Dancers, Guitarists, and Singers) on what is required from each of them to effectively communicate (interact, accompany, compliment, and improvise) with one another through a breakdown on the structure of flamenco dance and song forms. Sought after for her unique ability to teach all three of the flamenco genres (dance, guitar, and singing), Temo explains (through the use of graphic charts that she has devised) the underlying structure of complete flamenco dance and song forms, demonstrates important moments that need to be conveyed, and has participants try out the process. Her workshops were offered for 10 years consecutively at the University of New Mexico International Flamenco Festival, at the Toronto International Flamenco Festival, and reviewed in magazines such as Flamenco USA, Flamenco International (London, England), and Dance Magazine. Temo has traveled to many cities in the US offering her Communication Workshop helping flamenco communities develop their communication skills in how to work with guitarists, singers, and dancers. For more info on Marija Temo click here: http://www.marijatemo.com/marija-temo-biography/
Itinerary (Schedule of classes change daily) See below.
Thursday, 9/12/19 Itinerary
Friday, 9/13/19 Itinerary
Saturday, 9/14/19 Itinerary
(Juerga Flamenca (Flamenco party Sat., tonight!),
Open to all, including those that cannot attend the intensive. See link for details
Sunday, 9/15/19 Itinerary
Dance Studio ( See below)
Airport/Amtrak/Transportation/Restaurants (See below)
Hotel and Housing (See below)
To register and make payment (Per day package rates and build your own flamenco day with the times and days you can attend)
