Fan Work in Advanced Flamenco Dancing

"Hi! Thank you for visiting Expertvillage.com. My name is Yvette Parrish. We will be talking little bit about the fan and incorporating it with some basic footwork and with some skirt work. Remember we have lot of toys to play with. We got the skirt, we got the fan, castanets. You will know which one you are naturally for. I love the fan. I think it makes such a statement. All right, so you are standing feet together. Remember , you see that not like this. But the feet together ladylike very good. Left hand, left leg, bring your skirt up. Drop it do it again. We do not bend down for it. Bring the skirt to you. Skirt comes to you to the waist. Drop it, do it again. Drop it do it again. Do not do this in that. Okay, grab that knee and bring it. Get into your T position. Now we have the fan, the pretty side, which does not have the spines are towards you and I will show you why. When you open it for a split second the spine or the ugly side is towards the audience, but when you turn your fan, now the pretty side is towards the audience. So you want start of with the pretty side, kind of have a preset a couple notches towards you. Remember, hold your skirt up. Open it and when you turn the fan, now the pretty side is towards your audience. They have fans that all are beautifully decorated and that also will be easier for you to get and learn with because, if your turning at the wrong way you will obviously see it, its all the beautiful roses or something are facing the wrong way. So start with the pretty side towards you so that is what you are looking at, open it. But when you turn it now the audience are seeing the pretty side, all right? So we will do that again. Open it, turn it together. Remember, I have got my skirt here also. So we will close it, keep it down, bring it together and then we are doing a little body language. We are doing a little bend with our back. We are not too straight. We are bending a little bit with the back, this piece of the fan right here you want it just about touching your arm. So some extension of your arm. You don’t want this. You want this."