Side Skirt Techniques in Advanced Flamenco Dancing

"Hi! Thank you for visiting Expertvillage.com. My name is Yvette Parrish. You grab your skirts, you grab in your skirts, drop it, this is how you practice, bring your knee up. This is my knee right here and grab it here. This is my knee right here. I am grabbing it and bring it to your waist. Practice that for about 20 times, because one will tend to do this. Grab it, grab it. Once you have that down and you grab it, you have your skirt, you can bring it to one side, bring it to the other side, and here, you can bring it behind you. Same thing with the other side, grabbing it at the knee, you can bring your skirt at the waist, this is a nice pose for a picture. You can be posing for a picture. Flamenco skirts are made with lots of ruffles. So they are made to be used like I am showing you to use them. Same thing, grab it, put your T position with your legs, arm up and that’s a beautiful flamenco pose for picture all right? Try not to keep your arm up like this, like you are dunking a basketball. I kind of help my students, I bend their elbow a little bit, that’s a little bit like the letter C, like this. We are not doing this, like this. All right, do a little bit round and hold your skirt."