Sevillanas, the most known dance in Andalusia

• Sevillanas is a type of folk music, sung and written in Seville (Andalusia) in Spain.
• They have a relatively limited musical pattern, but rich lyrics, based on country side life, virgins, towns, love themes ...
• Every year, dozens of new sevillanas discs are published.
• Sevillanas can be heard in southern Spain, mainly, in fairs and festivals, including the famous Feria de Sevilla
• There is an associated dance for the music: "Baile por sevillanas", consisting of four different parts. One can find schools teaching "baile por sevillanas" in nearly every town in Spain.
• Each sevillana is composed of 4 parts, with each part divided into 3 'coplas', and with each copla made up of 6 movements.
• At a popular level they are executed in series of four coplas (poetic compositions, in verse, used as lyrics), each of which has a different choreography, with a brief interval between them.
• The most significant movements are the paseíllos (ceremonial entrance or a series of steps, somewhat like a stroll), pasadas (cross-over with the partners side by side), careos (cross-over with the partners facing each other) and remate (the emphatic final part of a movement). On the last beat of the singing, the music and dancing cease simultaneously and the performers finish off with an elegant and provocative desplante (a series of hard stepping movements that end, or climax, a series of steps, or section, of a dance), characteristic of courtship dances.

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