Advanced Fan Combo Moves in Flamenco Dancing

"Hi! Thank you for visiting Expertvillage.com. My name is Yvette Parrish. You can also hold your skirt, come up forward, remember if we turn our face, we turn the fan. Remember you don’t want when are holding it up, you do not want this. You want it as straight as a line as you can be. This way, straight arm, don’t do this. You want it like this, kind of an extension of your arm. Remember there are all sizes of fan, so if one is too big for you, this is a large fan. Then try a smaller size. When you go to the store, kind of play with them and see which ones you like and now when I turn now my body language changes and I am bending my back a little bit. We are not… like this, I just wave in… it’s a dainty feminine… out with the wrist, then close it. Out, turn, body language, out, close it and all we are doing is fan and skirt. We are not doing any footwork. We are not doing any floreo. Another pretty thing is taking your left hand, bringing it to the right side, turn it and when you turn, turn your face to the fan. So you start it like this, left hand you are sneaking back here because nobody can see you back here and turn. There is a lot of… when you are up here, you turn and it matches and bring it down. You can do a circle, close it, throw the circle open and bring it like this and these are all a little bit advanced. So do not feel bad if you just cannot get it the first time. Practice just opening your fan, opening it and closing it, opening it. This is an incredibly loud fan that I have today. So you will find them a little bit more silent. Open it, close it. Its just wrists, all I am doing is moving my wrists and back and forth and back and forth. Actually, when you get a new fan do that because it will loosen the fan up and it won’t be so hard to open. Open… that is all okay, practice up and open close, open close, open. Now you see how it is coming down there. Try not to open it and leaving that space there. Try to bring it all the way down so it is an extension of your arm when you come around. So now we bend them the back a little body language, change in the feet, little flirty wave. Open it and close it with your wrist. Open it little flirty, chin, turn, close, open. That is it, so just have fun with it, play with it."