How to Use a Fan in Flamenco Dancing: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi! Thank you for visiting expertvillage.com, my name is Yvette Parrish. Now if you’re going to be using it while you’re dancing you hold it up in the air and you open it like that for a very dramatic effect. You can bring it towards you, you can do a flirty little wave, open it and the same thing remember how we closed it with our wrist, same thing you close it. If you’d like a traumatic opening and closing for your dance. You can do this close it with your skirt, a little wave, open it and once again with the wrist I’m closing it. You can bring it up to your head, open it, same thing close it with my wrist. Now also you can hold it up here, do a simple little turn and open it. So it’s a wonderful, wonderful piece to use during your dance, you can take your left hand close it this way, look the other way for a little traumatic look and open it like this. You can, when you’re holding it straight up I have the circular part of the fan towards the audience, the straight part is towards yourself. When you turn the fan left, you’ll turn your face left and then you turn forward, when you come around you’re moving the fan towards you where now the spine side is towards yourself, the pretty side is towards the audience, open it that way, close it with your wrist. A little drama with your skirt and now you’re a fancy flamenco dancer. "