Comments on: Flamenco Dress Styles – Sevillanas http://dressforflamenco.com/2009/04/flamenco-dress-styles-sevillanas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flamenco-dress-styles-sevillanas All about Flamenco Costume Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:41:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marisa http://dressforflamenco.com/2009/04/flamenco-dress-styles-sevillanas/#comment-936 Marisa Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:24:37 +0000 http://dressforflamenco.com/?p=478#comment-936 Of course, you're absolutely right, Estela. However, like it or not, almost every flamenco dancer outside Spain will learn the Sevillanas as his or her first "flamenco" dance - and most people outside Spain think the spotted, frilly dress is what a flamenco dancer wears. Of course, you’re absolutely right, Estela. However, like it or not, almost every flamenco dancer outside Spain will learn the Sevillanas as his or her first “flamenco” dance – and most people outside Spain think the spotted, frilly dress is what a flamenco dancer wears.

]]> By: E Zatania http://dressforflamenco.com/2009/04/flamenco-dress-styles-sevillanas/#comment-933 E Zatania Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:59:02 +0000 http://dressforflamenco.com/?p=478#comment-933 Sevillanas is a folk dance of Seville and has nothing to do with flamenco dance except the geography. To lump the two together is like saying Cajun music and New Orleans jazz are a single genre because they originate in the same place. You might see flamenco dresses worn by sevillanas dancers, but not sevillanas dresses (what the little girl in the video is wearing) worn by flamenco dancers. Estela Zatania, editor www.deflamenco.com/indexi.jsp Sevillanas is a folk dance of Seville and has nothing to do with flamenco dance except the geography. To lump the two together is like saying Cajun music and New Orleans jazz are a single genre because they originate in the same place.

You might see flamenco dresses worn by sevillanas dancers, but not sevillanas dresses (what the little girl in the video is wearing) worn by flamenco dancers.

Estela Zatania, editor
http://www.deflamenco.com/indexi.jsp

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